I believe this band may have been suggested before, but I feel they should be here, so I am resubmitting them. Not much info on them, but I do know they formed out of the ashes of the band Bakerloo. Their sole 1970 album is on Youtube and here is what is posted about them there:
Hannibal came together, from a band called Bakerloo around Birmingham
that featured a guitarist called Clem Clemson, Clem Clemson was a
brilliant young musician who went on to work with John Highsman in
Coliseum and became a big session guitarist, with his manager Jim
Simpson from Birmingham, Jim had funded an album for Bakerloo and
shortly after, virtually at the same time, Clem Clemson left to do other
things so Jim Simpson had got this album that he wanted promoting in
Germany so they actually did a tour of Germany under that name -
Bakerloo, before changed the name to Hannibal.
With some member changes the band found the spot to record an album that
was based around the guitarist Adrian Ingram, who -before Hannibal-
had a three piece blues band that were known locally, a fantastic
guitarist and although he hadn’t got any education or musical
qualifications then, but did get a load, and went on Guitar Chair at
the Leeds School of Music for Jazz he's a brilliant jazz guitarist, he
does Jazz gigs now over here and the states and has written books on Wes
Montgomery and various guitarists so a very accomplished musician,
Adrian Ingram was the main feature of the band, all the tracks were
written by him. Their horn player and keyboardist Bill Hunt was a member
of Breakthrou and later joined Jeff Lynne’s Move.
As a seminal and jazzy prog-rock band from the late '60s, Hannibal
shared stages with Free, Black Sabbath, Pato, ELO and Johnny Winter.
Their album is jam packed with early cutting-edge examples of Jazz-rock
fusion guitar playing together with Adrian Ingram's quirky Zappaesque
compositions. Hannibal was ahead of its time and eventually became a
much sought-after prog, collectors item. (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WaUce-fWyA)
Here they are on Discogs:
https://www.discogs.com/artist/419697-Hannibal-5
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