Bruce Raynor played Keyboards for Elegy and went on to create the band 'Europe' in the mid 70's. He also played in Michael Marra's 'Gaels Blue Orchestra'. 

Dundee jazz-rock outfit, Elegy, were on the go in the mid 70's era.

Photo line-up, L to R - JOHN DILLON (trumpet) - SANDY ROBERTSON (drums) - NEIL CONNEL (bass) - STEVE McDONALD (guitar) - BRUCE RAYNOR (keyboards) and squatting down at the front is PETER McGLONE (sax).

They played regularly in town and have also gigged up at the University supporting prog-jazz band, Hatfield & The North, that was in May 1975.

The photo was taken in '74 outside The Ambassador just before they set off for London to take part in a Melody Maker band contest - which they were 3rd.

After Elegy split, an offshoot sprouted into another local jazz-rock outfit called Europe.

Europe played locally and around other parts of Scotland.

Members were - BRUCE RAYNER (keyboards) - PETER VETTESE (keyboards) - GLEN JONES (drums) - ROB ADAMS (bass) - JOHN SINGERS (guitar)

You may remember Rob as the chap who worked in Forbes record shop in Commercial Street.

During the Covid epidemic of 2020 - 21, Bruce created a fabulous Facebook archive of Jimmy Deuchar's recordings. Here's a link to his Archive.  Jimmy Deuchar Archive

In 2024, as part of the Edinburgh Jazz and Blues Festival, Bruce narrated the stories behind arrangements played by the Edinburgh Big Band, that Jimmy had written. 5 of which had been digitised from the Dundee Jazz Archive.