High Treason

Psychedelic jazz fusion band High Treason had its seeds at Philadelphia's Temple University in 1967. Keyboard virtuoso Edgar Koshatka was a classical music major at the university, but more of a jazzbo at heart, with an equally abiding interest in the newest strains of psychedelia and rock -- particularly the Jefferson Airplane -- that served as a soundtrack to the period. He began jamming with an assortment of experimental players steeped in the same eclectic variety of sounds and by the middle of the next year had met and clicked musically with vocalist Marcie Rauer and guit...