1971, not such a bad year for music

someone_else wrote:         Three Dutch Masters of the Golden Age from that year. Moving Waves (registered on PA as dating from '72) was originally released as Focus II and it entered the Dutch charts in October 1971.

you reminded me of another Dutch master from 1971-the brilliant album Divergence by jazz-rock group Solution

Osibisa-Woyaya
Mice anda Rats in The Loft- Jan Dukes de Grey

Keep 'em coming.  The next year or two were no slouches either, for both progressive and rock in general, though I can't help  but notice that The Who, The Stones, and Rod Stewart definitely fell off a bit   That said, for Mahavishnu, ELP, Yes, Return To Forever...they wuz just getting started....

Why do sa many people here refer to prog albums of 1971, while this thread is located in "general" music ?

Anyway, my turn for 1971 NON-prog gems (no Caravan, no Genesis, no Earth & Fire, no Pink Floyd)  :

- Jackie McAulay : s/t
- The Harvey Averne Barrio Band - Acid Jazz
- Blue Öyster Cult : s/t
- David Bowie : Hunky Dory
- Breakout : Blues
- Breakout : Mira
- Anne Briggs : the time has come
- CCS : s/t
- Gene Clark : White light
- Bruce Cockburn : sunwheel dance
- Commander Cody & his lost planet airmen : lost in the ozone
- David Crosby : if only I could remember my name
- Dando shaft : dando shaft
- Deep Purple : fireball
- Gabriel Fauré : 2 quintettes pour piano et cordes (quatuor Via Nova)
- Free : Higway
- Serge Gainsbourg : histoire de Melody Nelson
- Rory Gallagher : s:t
- Marvin Gaye : what's going on
- Fela Kuti : open & close / Afrodisiac
- Led Zeppelin : IV
- Mandrill : s/t
- Joni Mitchell : Blue
- New Riders Of The Purple Sage : s/t
- Osibisa : Osibisa & Woyaya
- Willis Alan Ramsey : s/t
- Erik Satie : Ogives, Gymnopédies, Gnossiennes, Pièces Froides, Sarabandes (Jean-Joël Barbier)
- Gil Scott-Heron : Pieces of a man
- Sexteto Electronico Moderno
- Sly & The Family Stone : there's a riot goin' on
- Gabor Szabo : High contrast
- Uriah Heep : Salisbury
- Townes Van Zandt : s/t
- The Who : Who's next
- Tadeusz Wozniak : s/t
- O.V. Wright : a nickel and a nail / the ace of spades
- Neil Young : live at Massey Hall

presdoug wrote: you reminded me of another Dutch master from 1971-the brilliant album Divergence by jazz-rock group Solution

presdoug wrote: someone_else wrote: presdoug wrote: you reminded me of another Dutch master from 1971-the brilliant album Divergence by jazz-rock group Solution   All too true. I don't know the entire album, but the 6th part of Eruption on Moving Waves is called Tommy here. This piece, actually the title track of Divergence, was written by Solution's Tom Barlage. According to Solution's website, Divergence was released in 1972, shortly after the Focus album. In this way, Focus owed some tribute to Solution. interesting, i did not know about that-my lp copy of the Divergence album mentions the year 1971,but maybe that is mistaken

or, maybe recorded in 71 and not released until 72? at any rate, it is a really great record