Centipede was a jazz/progressive rock/Canterbury soundbig band with more than 50 members, organized and led by the britishfree jazzpianistKeith Tippett, that brought together much of a generation of young British jazz and rock musicians, e.g. from the bands Soft Machine, King Crimson, Nucleus and Blossom Toes. Jazz master Louis Armstrong remains one of the most loved and best known of all jazz musicians. ... Progressive rock (shortened to prog, or prog rock when differentiating from other progressive genres) is an ambitious, eclectic, and often grandiose style of rock music which arose in the late 1960s, reached the peak of its popularity in the early 1970s, and continues as a musical form to this day. ... The Canterbury Scene (or Canterbury Sound) is a term used to loosely describe the group of progressive rock musicians that were based around the city of Canterbury, Kent, England during the late 1960s and early 1970s. ... A big band is a large musical ensemble that plays jazz music. ... Free jazz is a movement of jazz music characterized by diminished dependence on formal constraints. ... A pianist is a person who plays the piano. ... Keith Tippett is a British jazz pianist and composer. ... The Soft Machine were a pioneering British psychedelic, progressive rock and jazz band from Canterbury, Kent, England, named after the book The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. ... The famous cover of King Crimsons debut album In the Court of the Crimson King (1969), painted by Barry Godber. ... Nucleus can mean: The Nuclear Envelope The nucleus is enveloped by a pair of membranes enclosing a lumen that is continuous with that of the endoplasmic reticulum. ...
As well as performing some concerts (limited economically by the size of the band), they recorded one double-album, Septober Energy, released in 1971.
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