We are told ….. For the first time ever, all of the eras across six decades that make up the incredible career of this truly seminal British act are presented together, along with some previously unavailable material on the DVD. The full tracklisting on both can now be revealed (see below)! The 3CD collection entitled […]
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This is the classic Miles session when he was still being fairly tonal and straightforward. He picked up Herbie Hancock from Blue Note and Victor Feldman from Ava Records and unlike his Someday My Prince Will Come album of the same period, this one comes with an excellent essay in the note booklet by Leonard […]
When playing high-resolution PCM files the defacto industry standard seems to be 192kHz, 24 bit. Right? I mean, given a choice between the next candidate, 176.4kHz, we automatically choose 192kHz. Why would we do this? Perhaps human nature. We assume higher is better. But, in fact, there’s reasonable evidence that in many cases, 176kHz is […]
Geoffrey Norris writes: Coming in at No 3 behind Beethoven’s Choral Symphony and Rachmaninov’s Second Piano Concerto, Schubert’s C major String Quintet of 1828 has long been a favourite on BBC Radio 4’s Desert Island Discs, with 72 guests selecting it as a castaway essential since the programme started in 1942. It is the Adagio […]
We are told: Limited edition 6CD Box Set featuring influences and six FM broadcasts from 1972, 1974, 1989 and 1995. Whether serving as a session musician, solo artist, or soundtrack composer, Ry Cooder’s chameleon-like fretted instrument virtuosity, songwriting, and choices of material encompass an incredibly eclectic range of North American musical styles, including rock & […]
Andrés Orozco-Estrada directs the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra in Dvořák’s ever-popular New World Symphony It’s one of the most frequently performed symphonies of all, the appeal of Dvořák’s New World Symphony never seems to fade. Andrés Orozco-Estrada and the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra ….. Please click HERE
MARTYNA KIELEK / Senior Music Editor After this tongue-in-cheek title, I would like to invite you to discover an extremely promising young French jazz saxophone player, Léon Phal. He claims to be influenced both by John Coltrane and by the Nigerian multi-instrumentalist Fela Kuti, and there is certainly no dearth of variety in his music. […]
A completely modernised revival of the classic AR sub chassis design, this model offered fine all-round performance with an airy, articulate sound. The AR arm is roughly equivalent to a MISSION 774LC. The Legend remains good value though somewhat eclipsed by the cheaper EB101
Van Morrison talks to Don Was, now president of Blue Note records, about his new album, Born to Sing: No Plan B. It is an album that draws on Van’s early blues influences and the pair also discuss how the sounds of the modern world have changed the way we listen to music MORE
“Night Surfer” was recorded in Prophet’s beloved San Francisco and in Nashville. Earlier this year, he told WSJ Speakeasy he was working with a familiar team. “It’s much of the same cast of characters from the last album,” said Prophet, a linchpin in the legendary cowpunk group Green on Red. “Brad Jones is producing […]
Overview: What could this possibly have to do with a music web site? Guest contributor Ray Purchase explains: Early TV The movie frame rate would have been a shoe-in for the earliest television systems except for two reasons. The first was that early television was prone to visible interference stemming from the mains power supply, […]
Wang plays the Fazıl Say / Arcadi Volodos Paraphrase on Mozart’s ‘Alla Turca’ Yuja Wang has been playing the Say/Volodos paraphrase on Mozart’s Rondo ‘Alla Turca’ for a while now, but recently she performed it in front of the Berlin Philharmonic in Berlin, which means that we can all now marvel at her virtuosity in […]
Hello, I’ve had several piano teachers who’ve taught me how to interpret classical music, learned the scales, a few arpeggios, a few things about chords… and I’m pretty advanced technically. However, I feel like I don’t even know a thing. Can’t improvise, can’t analyze, or understand hardly anything about music or what’s necessary to learn. […]
One of the delights of Apple products is their packaging. Easy to open, clean, simple, and elegant with a promise of more joy to come with the product itself. If the packaging is a joy think how nice what’s inside must be. What’s worth talking about is just how far removed they are from everyone […]
I have recently upgraded my hi-fi in a couple of ways and these changes have made me rethink my strategy for putting together a set of equipment on a relatively tight budget. Firstly, I had been using an NAD C320BEE as a pre-amp with an Arcam P75 power amp. I decided to upgrade these in […]
In 1985, Miles Davis shocked the music world by moving from Columbia to Warner Bros. He immediately started working on an album called ‘Perfect Way’ after a tune by Scritti Politti, later renamed ‘Tutu’ by producer Tommy LiPuma. When ‘Tutu’ was released in 1986, it re-ignited Miles Davis’ career, crossing over into the rock and […]