ALEXIS PATRIDES: As the credits roll on Dance Craze, the impossibly exciting 1981 concert film shot at the height of the 2 Tone movement, the Specials perform Nite Klub. It’s a noticeably different version of the song to the one that appears on their eponymous 1979 debut album. The intro is long and slow, reflecting […]
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Contributing editor Tony Andrews writes ….. “For jazz lovers who marginalise streaming and downloads, this place is somewhere between a shrine and a temple” When Howard Popeck asked me if I would write a series of articles about Hidden Treasures in Music or possibly related subjects I thought he was very brave as I’m very […]
1970-1987 collects the American musician’s solo albums over a 17 year period (the Warner era), starting with his 1970 eponymous debut and calling a halt at 1987′s Get Rhythm. Vinyl replica card sleeves, housed in a clamshell box. Disc: 1 Ry Cooder Disc: 2 Into the Purple Valley Disc: 3 Boomer s Story Disc: 4 […]
Dave Davies of Sixties superstars the Kinks talks to Neil McCormick about his ‘new’ album – and the endless feuding with older sibling Ray Davies. “Dave Davies shuffles into a north London café looking more like a tramp than a rock star. A moth-eaten black woollen cap covers a half-bald pate and stringy, flyaway, grey […]
Hmm. Interesting. JM’s music, although generally categorized as Blues is within that genre pretty variable in terms of interpretation. To me, some of his stuff verges into jazz areas I don’t particularly like. I’m pretty much a novice here myself incidentally. However here are the 3 which I really like: The Turning Point (1969) Bluesbreakers […]
Rebecca Morelle writes: Scientists have come up with a way to reveal the pecking order within a string quartet. A team from the Royal Academy of Music and the University of Birmingham found that analysing how individual musicians vary their timing to follow the rest of the group can indicate a hierarchy. They say it […]
Contemporary jazz icon Keilo Matsui began playing piano at the age of five. With sales of over 1.2 million units in the U.S. and sold-out appearances at concert halls across the world, she is one of the most recognized artists in the genre. In addition to being the first Japanese artist to top Billboard’s contemporary jazz chart, she […]
An unblinking look at an entertainment-obsessed society, Amused to Death addresses issues that have only grown in complexity and urgency over the past two decades. With Amused to Death, Roger Waters sounded the alarm about a society increasingly – and unthinkingly – in thrall to its television screens. Twenty-three years later, Amused to Death speaks […]
Following the success of the vinyl box set (which has now sold out), Demon is pleased to makeall of Saxon’s nine classic studio albums released between 1991 and 2009 on coloured 180 gram vinyl, all with inner sleeves featuring all the lyrics. All nine albums have previously only had extremely limited releases on vinyl […]
GRAMOPHONE MAGAZINE: ‘I would like to think we might now be in a phase when composers no longer seek merely to impress with complexity’ Why write symphonies? People often ask me this. They are probably mindful that I’ve spent most of my active life composing for the media. First it was TV commercials – […]
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Ten Years After are an English blues rock band, most popular in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Between 1968 and 1973, Ten Years After scored eight Top 40 albums on the UK Albums Chart. In addition they had twelve albums enter the US Billboard 200, and are best known for tracks such as […]
Welcome to Tony’s (Jazz) Treasure trove; a regular series of posts on a subject he knows well. He’s on a mission to shine a light on superb performers who are often unknown and shouldn’t be! Self-confessed jazz fanatic Tony Andrews writes … One of the pleasures I still manage in my senior years is […]
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This Special Edition 3DVD set brings together three concerts featuring the great Paul Rodgers. Paul Rodgers “Live In Glasgow” was filmed on was filmed on Paul’s solo tour in 2006 and features tracks from across his career. Paul Rodgers & Friends “Live At Montreux1994” was filmed at the famous festival on the tour in support […]
The ‘classical music’ label is proving outdated for many of today’s creative artists who thrive on the ever-decreasing gap between the art form and other music genres, writes Kate Molleson Continues HERE
70 YEARS OF THE UK CHARTS – The UK singles chart has been with us for 70 years, which gives Bob Stanley the chance to pick his entirely subjective list of favourite top entries to the hit parade for each year since 1952SIMPLE MINDS – After emerging from the Glasgow punk scene, Jim Kerr and […]
The Distortion of Sound is a documentary about the decline of sound quality and how technology has changed the way we listen to music. It will open your ears and inspire you to reach for richer, more soul-stirring musical experiences. Hear it all at http://www.DistortionOfSound.com
