The 1970s gave us both a legendary jazz club in The Baked Potato as well as the fusion group Soft Machine (which actually formed in ’68), both re-uniting last year in the form guitarist John Etheridge, Theo Travis on saxes, flute and Fender Rhodes, Roy Babbington on bass and drummer John Marshall. The stuffed Potato crowd got a taste of tunes from the band, all the way back to the Nixon era’d “Kings and Queens” which featured Travis’ gorgeous flute floating over Babbington’s bass line. 70s material such as the deeply grooved “Hazard Profile Pt “ and the ominously keyboarded “The Tale Of Taliesin” sounded as timeless as a 76 Mustang. More recent tunes such as the bluesy “Broken Hill” featured Etheridge in vintage form, while he rocked the joint on “Out-Bloody-Rageous” Pt 1”. Travis’ tenor was rich and angular on the kinetic “Life On Bridges” , with his spacey keyboards on “Out-Boody-Intro” and the teams metallic closer on “Hidden Details” proving that the fuse of fusion still sparkles after two score of scores.