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More of mainstream rocker than a true hardcore blueswoman, when Bonnie Raitt cuts loose on her slide-guitar (learned firsthand from Mississippi Fred McDowell), the blues notes fall like rain. Raitt earned her blues pedigree the hard way, performing alongside greats like McDowell, Sippie Wallace, and Howlin’ Wolf, so we’ll cut her some slack ’round these […]
For composers from Stockhausen to Skelton, electronic music has provided an opportunity to explore the emotional interior of exterior sounds, argues Philip Clark Continues HERE
Blue Note’s series of reissues remastered by the legendary recording engineer Rudy Van Gelder continues to come hot and heavy, although how they choose which titles to include is something of a puzzle. Some of the albums have been done to death already, while on rarer occasions we get something that has until now […]
Paul McGowan … My son Scott handed me a new book he just finished reading and suggested I read it. I am reading it and enjoying it. Others send me music to listen to. Sharing books and music has been a part of our culture for many, many years. I suspect it will continue to […]
Howlin Wolf was a musical giant, and his influence is still felt far and wide on both Blues and Rock.• Sam Phillips said of his voice “this is where the soul of man never dies.• His compositions have been performed by the royalty of rock and roll including The Rolling Stones, Cream, The Doors, Led […]
by Mark Edward Nero Updated February 26, 2018 Soul music is a combination of R&B (Rhythm and Blues) and gospel music and began in the late 1950s in the United States. While Soul has a lot in common with R&B, its differences include its use of gospel-music devices, its greater emphasis on vocalists, and its merging […]
Davis’s new Fidelio The New Year brings a sea-change to the London Symphony Orchestra as workaholic Valery Gergiev takes over from Sir Colin Davis as principal conductor, his senior colleague becoming its president. (The Philharmonia and London Philharmonic Orchestras have also announced new appointments: Esa-Pekka Salonen and Vladimir Jurowski.) Happily, Sir Colin is to make […]
In 1971, Atlantic Records released a pair of Dusty Springfield singles produced by the legendary songwriter/producer Jeff Barry (one-time songwriting and romantic partner of Ellie Greenwich, and author of too many hits to name): “Haunted”/”Nothing Is Forever” and “I Believe In You”/”Someone Who Cares.” A restless Dusty, freshly relocat- ing to America from […]
“Raven presents Blues at the Fillmore 1968-1969, ten electrifying and rare performances from MICHAEL BLOOMFIELD, NICK GRAVENITES and AL KOOPER, drawn together for the first time on one enthralling release. This remarkable collection of organic electric blues, with added jazz and modal flavours, highlights Bloomfield’s playing in its full radiant glow. The late, great Bloomfield is […]
We are told ….. This powerful anthology starts with Bowie’s Tokyo broadcast of his 1990 Sound + Vision performance. Bowie’s 1990 Sound + Vision tour was billed as a greatest hits tour. He intended this to be a live swansong for his catalogue of old favourites, after which Bowie declared that they would disappear from […]
Selection of work by one of the only household names in jazz. Covers his work from the late 40s through to the mid-50s when Brubeck was one of the most visible musicians in jazz Dave Brubeck has long served as proof that creative jazz and popular success can go together. Although critics who had championed […]
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Ivan Hewitt writes: It’s apt that Wagner and Verdi were born in the same year. They are romantic opera’s two great antipodes, united in stature, but divided in almost everything else. They embody two completely different outlooks on life and art, which are rooted in the cultures of their respective nations. That’s why every German […]
“The same family that spearheaded the rebellion against the French in Syria’s Druze Mountain after World War I also produced two of the most renowned Arab musical artists of this century. Farid al-Atrash and his sister Amal, along with their brother Fouad, grew up in the religious minority clan of their parents, Princess Alia and […]
When Columbia issued the first of the five volumes in Bessie Smith’s complete recordings series in 1991 — as a logical follow-up to 1990’s wildly successful Robert Johnson: The Complete Recordings box — they were simply hoping for another hit. As the Smith series continued through to its conclusion in 1996, each volume was […]