We are told: A new 3CD series with a remit to trawl through performances of the solo work of former Byrds members. This exhaustive series will exhume rarities from Roger McGuinn, Chris Hillman, David Crosby, Gene Parsons, Gram Parsons, Skip Battin and Clarence White as they plough through the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s playing radio […]
Month: September 2022
Found 475 results
From our archives: Jazz editor Tony Andrews writes: Around 12 years ago I got involved in sorting out a tour for a very talented female Jazz Singer from The US. The person who was in charge of the project had got it into such a mess that it was destined to failure and so I […]
Macbooks and Windows computers cannot reproduce DSD audio files unless you know the secret. Paul shares with us how to get them through the system.
One of Benjamin Britten’s most famous operas was censored and branded “obscene” before it reached the stage, a new biography of the composer will reveal. MORE
Many of the sounds we hear every day are entirely fabricated by engineers to persuade us to buy things. Hundreds of items have their acoustics deliberately tweaked to make us happy – according to Trevor Cox, professor of acoustic engineering at the University of Salford MORE
ERIC writes … I think most folks would be shocked to find out how much stuff comes from China. We’ll all find out soon as these tariffs kick in. China has the rep. of making lousy products but that isn’t always the case. If a US company contracts for a product, manufactured in China, to […]
John Dawson Winter, III, known as Johnny Winter was an American blues guitarist. He was a multi-instrumentalist, singer and producer. Johnny was prominent session man and toured with Muddy Waters. Johnny is the brother of Edgar Winter. Sadly, Johnny passed away in 2014 so we are proudly releasing Raisin Cain on CD. This was originally […]
180 gram audiophile vinyl / Gatefold sleeve / First ever 3LP version of this Animals Best Of This triple vinyl package includes the complete sessions that The Animals recorded with producer Mickie Most in 1964 and 1965. The 40 songs capture the band at their peak, including most of their best and biggest hits: ‘House […]
Stephen Pritchard writes ….. This is a major achievement. Stephen Farr triumphs in his massive survey of the output of Kenneth Leighton, a towering figure in British 20th-century liturgical music – one who instinctively understood the context of his compositions; how the organ works within great buildings and how its power and myriad colours can […]
Strangeways, Here We Come was released on 28 September, 1987, months after the Manchester band disbanded in acrimony. It went on to reach number two in the UK charts and was the group’s most successful album in the US. Joyce said though the band had split before it came out, it had been “a great […]
We are told: . The Cinema of Miles Davis showcases superior examples of the use of the great jazz trumpeter’s music in film. This edition includes his first complete score, sultry and improvised, for Elevator To the Gallows – Louis Malle’s directorial debut starring the eternal Jeanne Moreau – which came in late 1957, a […]
DOUG writes … Bob Carver had a circuit he called the digital time lense that was supposed to help with CD harshness. It sounded like an eq to me overall, and I never used this feature as a result. Other things claim to improve Mp3 files. Not for me they didn’t. Your suggestion of replacing […]
https://www.gramophone.co.uk/other/article/there-are-some-musicians-who-believe-that-just-by-playing-a-concerto-they-can-bring-people-together-well-you-can-t-igor-levit-interview
Hi Neil. A bit of confusion here re the two brands. What’s their connection – if any? Ivor. Wikipedia states the following: International Radio and Electronics Corporation (IREC) was established in 1947 by Clarence C. Moore, an Elkhart, Indiana minister. The company started out building rugged, open reel tape recorders for use by missionaries in […]
The late guitar hero Stevie Ray Vaughan is getting an epic release from Epic Records and Legacy Recordings. On October 28, Legacy will unveil Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble: The Complete Epic Recordings Collection, a 12-CD box set compiling, for the first time, the entirety of Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble’s official studio and […]
Another eBay bargain. £3.00 inc p&p. Read a 100% accurate review HERE
MAX W writes… Yes, definitely. It illustrated how intimately close John and Paul were; how isolated and insecure George clearly felt (not just set against John and Paul, but also against his peers like Clapton) and how much of a junior partner he was considered by the two main songwriters; how surprisingly important and stabilising […]
STEREOPHILE Let’s face it — January 1977’s Animals has always been considered to be somewhat of a dark horse in the Pink Floyd recorded canon. Yet here in Year 45 of Animals, the album is finally getting a rightly deserved re-evaluation, thanks to Animals 2018 Remix (Pink Floyd Records/Sony Music), which was just released on […]
With its new season opening this weekend, the Southbank Centre’s 32-year-old leader talks about how he’s shaping the venue to reflect classical music today, the magic of live music, and the challenge of keeping the lights – and the heating – on. Toks Dada is reeling off the concerts that make up the opening weekend […]