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Richard Anstey, right, and Al Neil practice behind the beat from drummer Gregg Simpson
during one of the Al Neil Trio recording sessions. Anstey, from Hatzic, has released 200copies
of a collector's album titled Retrospective, a collection of recordings the trio made between
1965and 1968.
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Lodestone Security Society of
Mission has issued a collector's
edition of the Al Neil Trio recordings made during the group's
period of leading jazz experinentations.
Hatzic resident,
Richard
\.nstey, who was the trio's bass
layer, produced the 200-issue
lbum called Retrospective from
icordings made between 1965

Trio gained considerable
and 1968while playing mainly in
Vancouver but also in many other - recognition from various music
magazines including Coda and
countries.
Musician,
Album consists of pieces from the International
the "turbulent period of experi- during its life.·
Anstey played with Al Neil on
mentation in the new multimedia art scene during the mid- piano and Gregg Simpson on
sixties," Anstey said. The free- drums.
Despite Anstey's position as
form sound of most pieces did, in
administrative
fact, come from works for which Lodestone
an outline was written down, director, the album is not of a
,religious nature, he said.
Anstey added.
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