In a statement on the Jethro Tull website, Ian Anderson writes that the band's original bass-player Glenn Cornick “brought to the early stage performances of Tull a lively bravado both as a personality and a musician.”
Cornick died on Thursday of congestive heart failure, aged 67. The musician was with the band for three years and featured on the first three album releases.
While flamboyant front-man Anderson attracted most attention during the band's phenomenal career, the talents of Cornick and the band’s other two members, guitarist Martin Barre and drummer Clive Bunker were also well recognised by fans and critics alike.
The group typically “creates a deep, rumbling bass and guitar line and paints a breathy flute ribbon upon it,” Mike Jahn wrote in a 1969 New York Times review of Jethro Tull’s performance at the Fillmore East.
“It maintains this through moments of loud, typically British rock bashing, and occasional passages of relatively quiet, inauspicious jazz.”
After leaving Jethro Tull, Cornick formed the band Wild Turkey and was a member of Paris, which included the former Fleetwood Mac singer and guitarist Bob Welch.
