As time passes, progressive rock bands come and go. A small handful scale the dizzy heights of significant album sales and extensive international tours, performing sell-out shows in decent-sized, reasonably salubrious venues and making a comfortable living. But that’s not the experience of the majority of prog acts, many of whom are active for a few years before beating a retreat and calling it quits, hopefully with their creative ambitions satisfied to varying degrees, albeit usually to the detriment of their bank balances. Somewhere between those two extremes, there are the stalwarts who plug away decade after decade, never giving up, always doggedly persevering. Only eight years short of racking up half a century as a going concern, Jadis epitomise this last category.
Gary Chandler, the band’s lead vocalist/guitarist and…
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Prog Italia (Digital) - 1 Issue, Issue 152