The Insect Trust (USA)

The Insect Trust was a rock band that formed in New York in 1967, whose characteristic sound was a mixture of progressive rock, jazz, folk, blues, and rock and roll similar to Fairport Convention, Janis Joplin, Grateful Dead, and Jefferson Airplane.
The members of the band were Nancy Jeffries on vocals,[1] Bill Barth on guitars, Luke Faust on guitars, banjo, fiddle and harmonica, Trevor Koehler on saxophone, and Robert Palmer on clarinet and alto saxophone. Elvin Jones and Bernard Purdie both drummed with the group at times.
According to The New York Times the band took its name from William S. Burroughs's detailing of a race of giant insects bent on world domination in the novel Naked Lunch.[2] However, according to Bill Barth, the name "Insect Trust" came from the poetry journal the Insect Trust Gazette, published by Bill Levy. Levy took the name from Burroughs, Warren Gardner then gave it to the band.
Sax player Robert Palmer later became a rock critic, while female vocalist Nancy Jeffries became a record company executive at A&M, Virgin, and Elektra. Luke Faust had earlier been a member of the Holy Modal Rounders, an old-timey/psychedelic group.