PAZ was a London-based British fusion collective formed in 1972 by vibraphonist Dick Crouch. Their sound was heavily influenced by Latin music, though not entirely. Crouch worked as a producer for the BBC Transcription Department in West London. He formed the group out of a growing dissatisfaction with the local jazz of the time, and a committed belief that melody should be put back into the repertoire. They were long lived on the club circuit in London and the south-east of England attracting a mostly rock audience rather than a jazz one. They never achieved popularity like some of their British contemporaries: Morrisey-Mullen, Brian Augar’s Oblivion Express, early Incognito.
Over the years PAZ’s alumni boasted top class British and overseas musicians…