Out resident jazz expert Tony Andrews writes ….. It was a typical winters day on the 11th February, the type of day where wanting to leave the comfort of home could have been a real effort. Fortunately I had been invited to attend a double event at The National Jazz Archive in Loughton, Essex which […]
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Jill Suttie writes: Researchers are discovering how music affects the brain, helping us to make sense of its real emotional and social power. Please click HERE to continue
In the last movement of Prokofiev’s Second Violin Concerto, Patricia Kopatchinskaja takes the composer’s ben marcato seriously, using heavy accentuation to produce the effect of a pungent danse macabre. Even the contrasting legato melody is presented with a sinister, flautando sound. Janine Jansen’s performance (also with Jurowski and the LPO) is less extreme, with […]
From the archives As the Cure gear up to headline Reading and Leeds festival, we return to 1993 with Rock’s Backpages – the world’s leading collection of vintage music journalism – and find Robert Smith deep in conversation with Spin magazine MORE
According to British psychologist Glenn Wilson, music plays a very central role in the lives of people and is ranked highly among pleasures including sex, food and drink. Aside from the enjoyment of listening to tunes or composing symphonies, studies show that music of all genres can have a great impact on both the physical […]
Joseph Charles, Musician It wasn’t what I’d call a feud; they each took swipes at each other in 1974, and that was it. Rundgren criticized Lennon rather harshly in an interview with Melody Maker magazine. A few choice quotes: “John Lennon ain’t no revolutionary. He’s a fucking idiot, man. Shouting about revolution and acting like […]
Disc 1 .Shooting Star 2.If You Want To Feel 3.Wold 4.Poor Damned Fool 5.I Wanna Learn A Love Song 6.Flowers Are Red 7.Bummer 8.Cat’s In The Cradle 9.Love Is Not In Season 10.Tangled Up Puppet 11.Why Do Little Girls 12.Mr Tanner 13.They Call Her Easy Disc 2 1.Halfway To Heaven 2.Caroline 3.My Old Lady 4.A […]
Ralph Vaughan Williams’s extraordinary output for orchestra and voice is a central part of the repertoire – but not so his music for solo piano or piano duet. As he releases a new disc of the composer’s complete music for solo (or two) piano, Mark Bebbington reflects on a small but significant ….. Please click […]
Our Jazz & contemporary music editor Tony Andrews writes: As anyone who knows me will confirm, I have an obsession with the music of female jazz singers. My biggest problem these days is finding any originality among the newcomers who keep popping up – and that’s even with many established favourites. When a singer […]
Tenor Saxophonist Julian “Cannonball” Adderley Is One of the Greatest Ever to Play the Instrument His Final Project Was Big Man, a Musical Play Based on the Legend of John Henry Released as a 2-LP Set with a Libretto, BigMan Featured Music from Adderley and His Then-Current Musical Associates Including Brother Nat Adderley, George Duke […]
From the archives Charlotte Gomes writes: We are happy to announce the release of Villafan’s “Acoustic EP Vol 1″This EP features reworked versions of songs taken from his latest record “I Still Believe EP” as well as his signature song ‘When We Try’ from his debut EP “Sweet Time”. My music, Villafan says, is powerful […]
Lee Konitz – Alto saxophoneBrad Mehldau – PianoCharlie Haden – BassPaul Motian – Drums Expectations can run high when veteran musicians of consistently high caliber come up with a new recording. The four jazz masters on Live at Birdland do not disappoint. The disc documents an impromptu jam session over two nights––December 9 and 10, […]
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“For twenty years, The Hitman Blues Band has been rocking the New York area with their searing brand of blues/rock, drawing favourable comparisons to Johnny Winter, Joe Bonamassa, and Kenny Wayne Sheppard along the way. Led by founding member, guitarist/singer Russell “Hitman” Alexander, the band has made various personnel changes along the way, but Alexander […]
From the archives Without question, a significant factor in what makes Bruce Springsteens Darkness Tour his greatest ever jaunt in the eyes of his fans is the series of FM radio broadcasts which were transmitted live from a number of venues throughout the second half of the year, across the United States. These sublime recordings […]
Howard Popeck writes: Quite so. Went to EVERY gig within the M25. Loud? I’ll say. Had to start to learn to lip-read as a consequence. Hard-faced birds, broken glass on the floor, broken teeth and broken noses in the loo – but not on me! ‘ Trrific’ – as the great man would say. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QsMO6kQ96XM […]
Alexander Musarra writes … Let me first generalize pop music. Popular music generally focuses on having a good, danceable groove, and a simple, melodic hook. Popular music is also relatively short, 3 minutes being average. Harmonically they are generally diatonic (within the major scale) with little, if any modulations (change of key). Progressive rock, on […]
Unreleased live performances by the Grateful Dead of songs from the classic Workingman’s Dead album. All performances unreleased and recorded between 1970 and 1978. Newly remastered and segued to create an imaginary hour long live experience of the entire album. 1 Uncle John’s Band 2 High Time 3 Dire Wolf 4 New Speedway Boogie 5 […]
David Bowie’s A Reality Tour is an extensive live and final overview of his greatest hits, popular album tracks, along with artist and fan favorites, performed live during his amazing performance in Dublin, Ireland. The 2004 show was captured on film for DVD, later on CD, but never released on vinyl. Friday Music being a […]
Standing well over six feet and weighing in at around 250 pounds, it’s no surprise that Albert King earned the nickname “The Velvet Bulldozer.” Standing on stage with his Gibson Flying V, named Lucy, King cut an imposing visual figure. After a few abortive recording attempts, King scored a #14 R&B single on King Records with “Don’t Throw Your Love […]
We are told: Le Chant du Monde present the second volume of JohnColtrane live in Europe, here compiling together sixconcerts from the 1962 tour – Paris, Stockholm, Helsinki,Copenhagen, Graz and Milan. A superb opportunity for the listener to fully immersethemselves in the work of this greatest of jazz icons, overnumerous versions of the core body […]