The track is Saudade featuring John (Lennie) Macnicol on trumpet. (It is not Swegas but John's jazz sextet)

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John joined Swegas in December 1970. He had arrived in London the previous September, fresh from university. While a student in Edinburgh, he had played in many jazz groups (including running his own be-bop quintet, which featured drummer Bill Kyle and guitarist Lachlan McCall - both still very active on the excellent Scottish jazz scene) and had run the University Jazz Club, promoting gigs by leading London musicians like Don Rendell and Keith Tippett. In fact, John organised his first jazz group in Edinburgh when aged only fifteen, and still at school: they even played a concert. John attended the famous Barry Jazz Summer School in August 1970 and mixing with first-rate musicians there made him even more determined to move to London and try to be part of its music scene.
In November 1970, John was struggling to survive in London and working as a packer in the basement of Harrods (while sitting in with jazz groups and playing in various big bands, including a few rehearsals of the National Jazz Youth Orchestra at the Cockpit Theatre). He saw an advert in the 'Melody Maker' for a trumpeter in a brass-rock band, and responded. After various auditions and try-outs, John got the gig, replacing Chris Dawe. John will always be grateful to Chris for his kindness and generous advice during the auditions. Chris was an excellent trumpeter, with very good range and endurance (he had been playing professionally in rock bands for some time), and John admits that at first he struggled to come up to that standard (and to learn all the complicated Swegas music). However, by dint of hard work (hence the practising) he gradually got there. Playing night after night on tour helps any brass player, and he feels that by the time of the Gunzburg concert in July 1971 his 'chops' were just about what was required on the Swegas gig.
As John puts it: 'It was definitely the hardest band I have ever done, but the music was fantastic and the guys were so great. At the beginning, they were probably a bit apprehensive about me and my relative lack of professional experience - but by the spring of 1971 I felt accepted. Playing with Swegas was an amazing experience. We went through much hardship and awful struggles, but we also had really great times and I've never laughed so much as when I was in the company of Nick, Ron, Legato, Billy, Roy, Keith and Stewart. One hilarious thing we used to do, when bored at rehearsals, was to swap instruments and do an appalling version of Chicago's 'Twenty-Five or Six to Four', and then collapse in laughter. I admired them musically and personally - not one of them had any malice in their personalities at all. Stewart was a great musician - I can still remember some of the amazing things he played - and his death was very sad. However, it has resulted in us getting together again, and this website.
Sadly, Swegas folded in September 1971, owing to management problems and debt. John went back to a struggling existence in London, and then moved back to Edinburgh, where he played in the brass-rock band Mama Flyer (including Les Davidson on guitar, who went on the work with Leo Sayer). He eventually returned to university, and has had a long career as an academic. He is still a very active jazz trumpeter in London, playing with the Willie Garnett Big Band, the John Huckridge Jazz Orchestra, Big Band Metheny and various small groups. His enthusiasm for the trumpet is stronger than ever. 'The break-up of Swegas was awful at the time', he says, 'but looking back, it seems even more senseless and tragic. Swegas was an amazing band. The Gunzburg tape shows what might have been.'