Joy Of A Toy

Joy of a Toy is the debut solo album of Kevin Ayers, a founding member of Soft Machine. He is accompanied on the LP by pianist and arranger David Bedford as well as his former Soft Machine colleagues Robert Wyatt and Mike Ratledge, and his eventual replacement Hugh Hopper, who had previously worked with him in the semi-pro band Wilde Flowers. Among the session musicians are cellist and arranger Paul Buckmaster, jazz bassist Jeff Clyne, oboist Paul Minns and drummer Rob Tait. From Wikipedia (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joy_of_...) under Creative Commons Attribution CC-BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/...)