Year: 2022
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One of the best ways to learn jazz is to sit down and talk with virtuosic jazz musicians. In this incredible interview we get an opportunity to sit down and explore the mind of jazz organ virtuoso Joey Defrancesco. Who Is Joey Defrancesco? Joey Defrancesco is simply one of the greatest jazz musicians alive today! As […]
The dictionary has several meanings to the word dither. The most common is to be indecisive. The second meaning is more related to what interests us: to add white noise. Dither is the addition of randomness into low-level signals. Surprisingly, we do this to lower distortion of predictable errors. Here’s a great example from a Photoshop […]
John Fordham … “This is the kind of venture – with two flying-fingered virtuosi trying to out-magic each other – that can generate a lot more heat than illumination. But this effervescent double-set of acoustic-piano exchanges on a dozen pieces balances virtuosity with mutual respect, and suggests the encounter was a ……” MORE
Stephen Johnson analyses the music and the background to the music of Brahms’ 2nd Piano Concerto with the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra under Jonathan Schiffman with piano soloist Martin Roscoe. http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p0249gtx
After moving to the U.S. from Canada in the 1940s, Maynard Ferguson gained prominence through his association with Stan Kenton in the following decade. Striking out on his own, he appeared on numerous film soundtracks (including The Ten Commandments), eventually forming his own band. A relocation to England in the 1960s, he became a fixture […]
My dear friend, conductor Lowell Graham has what he calls his 30-second rule. “If something does not grab me in in the first 30 seconds of listening, I do not continue. That can be of compositional value, recording, performance and is certainly the combination of all those attributes.” Now that’s pretty sound advice though at first I […]
San Francisco (Be Sure to Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair) didn’t reflect the particular sound of the city itself. Not that this mattered – it was great pop and its idealism lives on. Rock history rightly celebrates the pioneers but sometimes the bandwagon jumpers get it right too. Whether anybody liked it not – […]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3uVoid74SA Robert Plant never lost it Wow, what an awesomely diabolical riff! The song in general sounds a lot like Those Damned Blue Collared Tweakers, by Primus. вещь.лишь талант бы был
All•About•Jazz write ….. The trajectory of Steven Wilson’s career, since stepping away from his longtime band Porcupine Tree to go solo, has been nothing short of remarkable. Since interviewing him in 2012 for the release of Get All You Deserve (Kscope, 2012)—an audio and video document of his world tour in support of Grace […]
Martin Kettle writes: Unlike Angela Merkel, our leaders rarely flaunt their cultural tastes. It’s to the detriment of national life Last Saturday I sat in something very close to rapture just a few feet away from Germany’s chancellor, Angela Merkel. But Merkel wasn’t making a speech. She wasn’t giving a press conference. And, although I […]
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“The legendary Doc Pomus was one of the most important songwriters of the early sixties and in the history of American popular music. For the first time ever we have compiled a mesmerising 56 track 2CD set coupling his early recordings as a blues singer with his hits as a songwriter. Includes such great acts […]
National Educational Television broadcast as “The Sounds of Summer”. July 7th 1969 , Mississippi River Festival, Southern Illinois University, Edwardsville, Illinois. Joni Mitchell, Arlo Guthrie – Folk Artists Paired at Festival It is from widely separated backgrounds that Joni Mitchell and Arlo Guthrie, Monday night’s entertainers at the Mississippi River Festival, derive their widely separated, […]
At first glance, it is not clear to us why an oversized power supply sounds better, or one cable sonically outperforms another. This is because not everything is obvious. It helps to take some things on faith (at least for the briefest of moments). Faith for most of us comes only with great difficulty. We […]
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A new batch of 5in1 box sets celebrating legendary jazz artists from the Verve catalogue.This run includes Chick Corea, Ella Fitzgerald, Astrud Gilberto, Stan Getz, Bill Evans, Charlie Parker, Oscar Peterson and Billie Holiday.These sets are CDs in wallets housed in a slipcase. 1. Lester Leaps In – Peterson, Oscar 2. Easy Does It – […]
Michell Mercer … Did you hear about the Italian gallery owner who last year — with the cooperation of the painters? It was a sort of desperate smoke signal to his government; a means of protesting funding cuts. If there haven’t been similar protests in the U.S. lately, it could be because we’re used to […]
Jazz Saxophone legend Art Pepper’s Neon Art LP series coming to CD for first time on Omnivore Recordings. In 2012, Omnivore Recordings issued a series of unreleased music from jazz legend Art Pepper on colored vinyl. Now Omnivore, in conjunction with Laurie Pepper and Widow’s Taste Music, proudly offer these landmark recordings on CD and digital. Neon […]
In a recent post, The Bark Syndrome, I identified a problem that is difficult to pinpoint its source. Barking voices. You’ve no doubt experienced on multiple recordings the bark of a loud voice. The signer gets going and suddenly you wince. Your face scrunches. Where in the chain does this change in quality occur? If we […]
Playing a musical instrument throughout your life protects your hearing in old age, a Canadian study suggests. The study, published in Psychology and Aging, carried out hearing tests on 74 adult musicians and 89 non-musicians. It found a 70-year-old musician’s hearing was as good as that of a 50-year-old who did not play. MORE
Previously published here Following on from their successful appearance at the London 2012 Olympics closing ceremony, Pet Shop Boys have released their 11th studio album, Elysium. Here Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe tell the story of the album. MORE