Tim Ashley writes ….. Wigmore Hall, London Franz Schubert’s range of influences were brought to the fore in a fascinating and often beautiful programme of lesser-known works Continues HERE
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One of the greatest acclamations a guitar player can have is to be instantly recognisable through their playing. Who else, other than George Harrison, could it have been playing the first solo on Cream’s ‘Badge’. Take the guitar solo in Michael Jackson’s ‘Beat It’ – no-one but Eddie Van Halen sounds like that. Brian […]
Antonella Frau writes … The guy is a beast. I understand we get used to regarding a guitar or bass player as “talented” or “virtuoso” because of their shredding[1], finger tapping, fingerwork and so forth. When it comes to Sting, however, specially during his Police years, we fail to spot any of the aforementioned parameters. […]
Earnest Farr writes … What a great question. I don’t know if there’s a definitive answer to this question, but there are certainly some tunes that can’t be left out of the list of greatest rock intros ever. In no particular order, and from the perspective of an old fart, I submit…. “Threshold”, the intro […]
Tom Randberry writes … That could be hard to to determine exactly. “Come Together” is a good candidate though. It was among the last Beatles songs recorded for “Abbey Road” and John Lennon said it was written in the studio during the “Abbey Road” sessions. That was probably after he got back from his Scotland […]
Sarah Meisels writes … The Beatles’ video of Hey Jude was shown on the David Frost show on September 8, 1968. They were tricky, all of them: David Frost made it seem that the Beatles were actually in his studio, but they weren’t. David went to Twickenham film studios four days earlier, on September 4. […]
Editor’s note: Today we welcome our friend Tony Besgrove to the team. Howard has known Tony (known, but not in the biblical sense!) for some years now and says he’s as fanatical about music as the rest of us. Fortunately, unlike the rest of us where we share musical common denominators, Tony bring a fresh […]
We are told: • The entire original KSAN, WBCN and King Biscuit Flower Hour FM Radio Broadcasts • Covering live performances from The Old Waldorf CA (1977), Paradise Ballroom MA (May & November 1978) & McFarlin Auditorium, Dallas, Texas • Professionally re-mastered with background liners and rare archival photos. • 5 CDs • Over 80 […]
We are told ….. In 2010 Rhino reissued the very successful Live Classic Delaney & Bonnie & Friends on Tour with Eric Clapton as a Four-Disc set with more than three hours of unreleased performances. We are now releasing a revised version as a mid-price fatpack on June 16th. The revised version contains 4 CDs […]
We are – as always – indebted to our friend Tony Besgrove for this terrific recommendation. He writes – “NOTHING, BUT NOTHING says ‘rock’ as much as this video. The editing is unbelievably and stupidly busy, but the audio is something else. Funeral music extraordinaire.”
This new box set, supported by Mike Oldfield, will contain 8 albums from the Warner years: Tubular Bells II The Songs Of Distant Earth The Voyager Tubular Bells III Guitars The Millennium Bell Tr3s Lunas Tubular Bells 2003
Reissue of Ferguson’s acclaimed live performance form 1983. Features original cover art. Contains new liner notes from noted Ferguson aficionado Eric Palmquist. BY 1983, MAYNARD FERGUSON HAD CONQUERED JAZZ, TELEVISION, THE POP CHARTS AND EVEN PLAYED THE CLOSING CEREMONIES OF THE 1976 OLYMPICS. His Storm release from that year brought him back to the faithful, […]
“AUDIOPHILE AUDITION focuses on recordings of interest to audiophiles and collectors, with an accent on surround sound for music, and on all hi-res disc formats. Over 100 SACD, DVD Video/Audio and standard CD reviews are published during each month, and our archives go back to January 2001.” MORE
We are informed ….. The Stone Pony 8/26/94 WNEW-FM broadcast from the Stone Pony, Asbury Park, New Jersey on August 26th 1994. Energetic good humoured performance from the maestro captured in superb sound quality. The Main Point, Bryn Mawr 1976 – WHMR-FM Broadcast Live at the Main Point, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania 1976 – Broadcast by […]
Originally published 2014 “The sex life of the serially wed Scottish pop star has hit the charts, with the announcement in his forthcoming autobiography that he got tired of getting his leg over with strangers” MORE
Fiona Orde-Shrimpton: To say Daniel Rosenboom is no ordinary jazz trumpeter, is no exaggeration. His father, David Rosenboom is currently Dean, Richard Seaver Distinguished Chair in Music at the California Institute of the Arts (and has been at CalArts since 1990), and having a first trumpet teacher in the form of Wadada Leo Smith, where […]
One of the most covered songs in the world, it has been recorded in almost every style of music – from jazz to opera, rock to reggae, soul to samba. Its musical adaptability is breathtaking, but Summertime also resonates on a deep emotional level too. This visually and sonically engaging film explores the composition’s magical […]
During her 1968-1971 period with Atlantic Records in the United States, Dusty Springfield also continued to record material in England, where her Atlantic repertoire was released on Philips Records. In turn, Atlantic received rights to issue Dusty’s British recordings from the era, but chose to focus entirely on her American sessions. In fact, it wasn […]
The Roxy Music star answers your questions on his favourite Newcastle boozers, the influential mentors who shaped his thinking, and the temptation to overproduce everythingT Fifty years down the line, what does Roxy Music mean to you? Jungtheforeman A lot. Roxy Music were the first 10 years of my career, so it’s a huge part […]
A Coventry woman who won a legal battle to erect a gravestone with an inscription in Irish, to honour her late mother, has described Fontaines DC’s new song inspired by the case as “a fitting end to the journey that we went on as a family”. Bernadette Martin, daughter of Margaret Keane, and her family, […]
Michael Hann (The Guardian) writes: The baby needed bathing, the tape recorder needed batteries and the band needed cider … the veteran rockers on the classic Led Zep album that began life at a cottage in Wales Pl;ease click HERE to continue
In 2012, the Monterey jazz festival put composer/guitarist Bill Frisell in a cabin at a remote ranch on the Big Sur coastline, and left him there to come up with his reactions to the landscape. The project – combining the guitarist’s chamber-musical 858 Quartet and … Continue reading HERE
An equal-loudness contour is a measure of sound pressure (dB SPL), over the frequency spectrum, for which a listener perceives a constant loudness when presented with pure steady tones. The unit of measurement for loudness levels is the phon, and is arrived at by reference to equal-loudness contours. By definition, two sine waves of differing […]