Live at the Cell Block Theatre, Sydney, 27 August 1967
Jazz Happening '67, Sydney, 27 August 1967. Photograph: Grant Mudford. The lights go out, only candles glow Incense twitches the nostrils: kaleidoscopic colours begin to claw the eyes Music - shattering, ominous - blends in and your mind takes off You're on your way, baby Next stop, Dream Land (James Hall, The Australian , August 1967) The Cell Block Theatre, Sydney, July 1962 (National Art School Archives) Contents Introduction The Cell Block Theatre concert The Canberra Event The Graeme Lyall Quintet LP 1969 Acknowledgements References -------------------------- 1. Introduction On the evening of Sunday, 27 August 1967, Jazz Happenings - The World's First Psychedelic Jazz Concert was held at the Cell Block Theatre, Darlinghurst, Sydney. The northern hemisphere summer of 1967 - the so-called Summer of Love - marked the high point of the hippie movement and psychedelia in places such as London, Greenwich Village and the Ha