Quantum Jump was a 1970s British cult band, consisting of keyboard player and singer Rupert Hine, guitarist Mark Warner, bass player John G. Perry (then of Caravan) and drummer Trevor Morais (ex-The Peddlers).
Quantum Jump was formed in 1973 at Farmyard rehearsal studios. The idea for the name came from a conversation Hine had with an ex-Cambridge University friend and filmmaker, Anthony Stern. "He had told me about the relatively recent discovery at Cambridge of the manner in which an electron's energy increases and decreases... not linearly as had been long assumed, but in a discrete step, known as a "quantum".
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The term quantum "jump" (later to be commonly referred to as "leap") was coined by the Cambridge team. I preferred "jump", as it had more of a "soul / funk" music connotation".
Quantum Jump's sound was, indeed, a hybrid of fusion, funk and jazz rock. The first album was written and arranged in 1973/74, and recorded (with equipment hired from Air London) at Farmyard. Hine produced the sessions, with Steve Nye as sound engineer. The sessions were independently financed by Jeffrey Levinson (of Mountain Fjord) but, explained Hine, after some 18 months of managerial and contractual problems, the rights to the album were sold to The Electric Record Company in 1975. The label's MD, Jeremy Thomas, felt that the song "The Lone Ranger" was a potential hit single if only it had something more "interesting" for the intro. Hine picked up on his remark and sang the longest word in the world (listed in The Guinness Book of Records) a capella, replacing the original intro to the song altogether. The word in question, taken from the language of the Maori, New Zealand's aboriginal people, was the name of a hill in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
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