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“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 […]
Brilliant performances live at various locations (see track listing) Includes the entire WMMR-FM special radio broadcast It’s presented here together with background notes and images. Joni Mitchell, live between 1966 and 1968 – a special program hosted and broadcast by WMMR-FM On January 29th 1974, Philadelphia’s WMMR-FM hosted a special Joni Mitchell broadcast, presented […]
We hear the term “resolution” referred to a lot in high-end audio but what exactly does it mean? How can it be achieved? And is it even desirable? Watch Now Paul McGowan
The late Ray Manzarek of ‘The Doors’ fame speaks to Stephen Daultrey along side his band member Robbie Krieger on paranormal life in England and ‘this supernatural world’. Back in 2010, I had the pleasure of meeting and interviewing two of my musical heroes – Ray Manzarek and Robbie Krieger of The Doors – in […]
First published in 2013 Someday All the Adults Will Die at the Hayward Gallery suggests that the late Seventies was one of the key cultural creative moments, writes Sarah Crompton. MORE
He was nicknamed Bird and he soared in his music – if not in his life. For the centenary of the saxophonist who redefined jazz, today’s players reveal how his dizzying speed and spirituality changed their lives. Dip in and out HERE
Philip Clark travels to Manhattan and absorbs the sounds surrounding the composer’s apartment in order to understand why Cage wrote the things he did. For those new to Cage’s philosophies and music, here are ten points of departure… 1) Gramophone recommended recording: The Seasons. Suite for Toy Piano (orch L Harrison) Concerto for Prepared Piano […]
This superb live set was taped at Georgetown University for WGTB-FM broadcast, six months after the release of Springsteen’s landmark The Wild, the Innocent & the E Street Shuffle LP. Although the Boss was battling a severe cold, he turned in a heroic performance, including rousing renditions of several of his trademark epics, with an […]
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FIONA MADDOCKS The three composers on the Royal Scottish National Orchestra’s African American Voices (Linn), conducted by the orchestra’s assistant conductor, South Carolina-born Kellen Gray, are enjoying a vigorous revival. William Grant Still (1895-1978), George Walker (1922-2018) and William Levi Dawson (1899-1990) combined classical training with the Black vernacular music of their upbringing. Dawson played […]
Believe it or not, there was a time when people would break into your car to steal the shiny, cheaply made scratch-magnets. Continues HERE
‘I was not thinking of the Redeemer when I created Parsifal’, wrote Wagner. In ceremonial moments stage director Pierre Audi and his team – including artist Anish Kapoor as set designer – rightly eschew any Christian symbolism deriving from latter-day Mass rituals, opting instead (in the first Grail scene) for images of blood and sacrifice. […]
We are told ….. DISC 1: 01 Detroit Rock City 02 Cold Gin 03 Strutter 04 Shandi 05 Calling Dr. Love 06 Firehouse 07 Talk To Me 08 Is That You 09 2.000 Man 10 I Was Made For Lovin’ You 11 New York Groove 12 Love Gun 13 God Of Thunder 14 Rock And […]
• Historical performance at Lafayette Music Room, Memphis, April 18 1974 • Includes the entire WMC FM-100 broadcast • Complete with background notes and rare images This radio broadcast captures Kiss on fiery form at the outset of their career, just weeks after the release of their classic debut album. Taped for airplay on Memphis’s […]
The 1975’s chart-topping album is just one of a string of hit debuts engineered, mixed and produced by Mike Crossey. Mike Crossey is a man of many talents, two of which are a knack for propelling unknown acts to the top of the hit parade, and the ability to mix tracks that sound amazing on the radio. Speaking […]
It was the legendary Louisiana musician Dr John who memorably described James Booker as “the best black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano genius New Orleans has ever produced”. Though Booker – who died from hard living in 1983 at the age of 43 – would have undoubtedly approved of the description, it does diminish his musical stature […]