THE GUARDIAN / Ben Beaumont-Thomas Steve Mackey, the bass guitarist for Pulp during the band’s most successful years, has died aged 56. His wife, stylist Katie Grand, announced the news on her Instagram page, writing: After three months in hospital, fighting with all his strength and determination, we are shocked and devastated to have said […]
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THE GUARDIAN / Ben Beaumont-Thomas Wayne Shorter, one of America’s greatest jazz saxophonists whose career spanned bop, fusion and more, has died in hospital in Los Angeles, aged 89. His publicist confirmed his death to the New York Times. Shorter was a central force in three of the 20th century’s great jazz groups: the Jazz […]
We are told: 1967 – 2017: VANILLA FUDGE celebrate their 50th anniversary with another musical rock monument – Live At Sweden Rock 2016”! What began in April 1967 in the Ultrasonic Studios in Hempstead/ NY, does still possess the same charisma a good 50 years later in the rather quiet Swedish town of […]
LAURA SNAPES: BBC Introducing, which unearths emerging musicians and has supported artists from Ed Sheeran to Holly Humberstone, will be cut from 32 to 20 shows The BBC has confirmed rumours that it is to cut back its slate of BBC Introducing programmes, the nationwide regional radio arm of its platform dedicated to unearthing emerging […]
THE INDEPENDENT: Jim Farber talks to the late singer’s former bandmate Chris Biondo and composer Christopher Willis about using AI and fresh symphonic arrangements ‘to do the right thing by her’ n 1992, four years before the death of a then-unknown singer named Eva Cassidy, and eight before she would achieve posthumous, worldwide fame, she […]
THE GUARDIAN / Dave Simpson A the age of 74, Andy Fairweather Low didn’t expect to see in 2023 as a viral sensation. He was on Jools’ Annual Hootenanny, performing his new song Got Me a Party and his old band Amen Corner’s 1969 chart-topper (If Paradise Is) Half As Nice. His appearance was so […]
THE INDEPENDENT / Mark Beaumont n 1 March 1973, a new moon rose over rock music. Immersive, quadrophonic, celestial and deeply introspective, Pink Floyd’s eighth album arrived in a heady flurry of cash tills, chiming clocks, pained-angel arias and cold, disembodied voices speaking of violence, death and insanity. Where their prog-rock peers were busy crafting […]
THE GUARDIAN / Andrew Clements Tetzlaff/Tetzlaff/Vogt(Ondine, two CDs)The late pianist is outstanding in these last recordings, accompanied by his longtime collaborators, the violinist Christian Tetzlaff and his cellist sister Tanja The pianist Lars Vogt died in September last year. His cancer had been diagnosed in 2021, and he was already ill when, against doctors’ advice, […]
Limited edition 7CD Box Set featuring five FM broadcasts from 1975 – 1985 Gene Clark was born in Tipton, MO, in 1944. Clark’s father was an amateur musician with a passion for country music which rubbed off on young Gene; he began learning the guitar at age nine and was soon picking out Hank Williams […]
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omenico Scarlatti’s keyboard sonatas crop up regularly enough in recitals, most often in a group of four or five beginning a programme, or acting as a palate-cleanser between more substantial works. Concerts devoted exclusively to them are rare, but in doing precisely that harpsichordist Mahan Esfahani was on a mission to encourage his audience to […]
From our archives It only seems like a couple of weeks since Caravan announced in August 2013 that they were to record a new album that would be financed by money pledged by fans, and yet here it is already! What should have been a joyous time for the band and fans alike was sadly […]
A film about the sound of Australian rock and the emergence of one of the world’s greatest rock bands – AC/DC, or Acca Dacca as they are known in Australia, and the legendary music company, Albert Music (Alberts) that helped launched them on to the global rock scene. Through the 1960s, 70s and 80s, Alberts […]
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This remarkable concert finds Miles Davis playing with his second quintet, comprising Wayne Shorter (tenor saxophone), Herbie Hancock (piano), Albert Stinson (bass) and Tony Williams (drums). Recorded for broadcast on KALX Radio, it features the only live recording of Dolores by this group, and their last known recording of Stella By Starlight. An incendiary document […]
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They tell us ….. Recorded at Toronto’s famed Massey Hall on November 9, 1988, this live broadcast recording features the great Leonard Cohen several months after the release of one of his finest later efforts, I’m Your Man. The beautiful recording focuses heavily on tracks from that great album but also spans his career, pulling tracks […]
“Pat Metheny’s Unity Band is a wave to his fine album 80/81, which featured the late Michael Brecker and Dewey Redman on saxes. Their roles are merged here on a batch of new Metheny pieces by the versatile Chris Potter, accompanied by regular drummer Antonio Sanchez and gifted bass newcomer Ben Williams. The themes are typical Metheny: sensuous Latin […]