“I still feel [Brand X] was my band, along with [John] Goodsall’s. I think we created a good legacy.”
In the mid-1970s, a young musician playing fretless electric bass started a groundbreaking career in jazz fusion as a session musician, solo recording artist, and member of one of the subgenre’s most highly regarded groups. And it wasn’t Jaco Pastorius.
Percy Jones first recorded with guitarist John Goodsall, keyboardist Robin Lumley, and drummer Phil Collins (of progressive rockers Genesis) in 1975 as Brand X, a band name that Jones would be associated with through 2020. The results appeared on the group’s 1976 debut release, . Collins had recently become Genesis’ lead vocalist as well as its drummer following the departure of original singer Peter Gabriel, but he sought an outlet for his more complex instrumental talents. And in the Wales-born Jones—with
