A music-obsessed, retired San Francisco lawyer, and author of the rock & roll memoir Jittery White Guy Music (available on Amazon)... picking a random album or song in his collection every day or so and sharing a few thoughts.
British keyboardist Brian Auger spent some time as a session musician in the 60s, and briefly recorded as Trinity with UK singer Julie Driscoll, before forming Brian Auger's Oblivion Express. The band released a number of fine records throughout the 70s, and intermittently ever since, ranging from jazz fusion to prog to laid-back pop. You can hear shades of Canterbury prog acts like Caravan as well as a British spin on the more FM-dial-friendly sounds of Steely Dan, though there's plenty of straighter jazz as well.
Their second album, 1971's A Better Land, is one of my faves, some esoteric pop moments alongside the delicate, mellow prog. Album opener "Dawn Of Another Day" is quite pretty, probably more on the lounge/jazz side than my taste tends to run, but there's something haunting about the number that I really enjoy, a vaguely-stoned dream of a long lost 70s just wafting by.
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