Joy Unlimited

Joy Unlimited was a band from Mannheim, Germany, active through the first half of the 1970s. It grew out of Joy & The Hit Kids, a group fronted by the singer Joy Fleming (1944-2017). Under the new name the musicians moved toward jazz-tinged progressive rock and wrote several albums as music for ballet, starting with Schmetterlinge. Most of the members met at the Mannheim music school: Roland Heck on pianos and vibraphone, Gerd Koethe on flutes and saxophones, Albin Metz on bass, Dieter Kindl on guitar and Hans Herkenne on drums.