BLUES: Our office playlist 2/11/22

Larkin Poe – Bleach Blonde Bottle BluesBoogie Beasts – France ChanceSuperdownhome – New York CityAynsley Lister – AmazingRusty Wright Band – No One Cares At AllRusty Wright Band – Devil Man BluesJoanne Shaw Taylor – Then There’s YouGrant Dermody – Don’t Boss MeZZ Top – TushChuck Berry – My Mustang FordGuitar Slim – Later For […]

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MILES DAVIS: Live In Toyko 1975 (2CD)

• Brilliant performance live in Tokyo • Includes the entire broadcast • Digitally remastered • Background liners On his tour of Japan in early 1975, Miles Davis presented some of the most searing, electric fusion ever heard in concert. The performances on this 2CD set,  FM broadcast, hail from a January 22 gig at Shinjuku […]

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CHOPIN: Inspired by the intimate salon aesthetic prevalent in Chopin’s time, Haley recorded and produced the album on her …..

Classical pianist and Young Steinway Artist Haley Myles is releasing her second album, dedicated to Chopin’s Nocturnes. Inspired by the intimate salon aesthetic that was prevalent in Chopin’s time, Haley recorded and produced the album on her Steinway and Sons M at her home in Lyon, France.  ‘The Complete Nocturnes’ is a natural extension of […]

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BRYN TERFEL: News

  One day, Bryn Terfel’s eldest son fell asleep at the opera. It was during the first act of Welsh National Opera’s 2010 production of Wagner’s Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg in Cardiff. Only when his father came on and started singing as Hans Sachs, did he awaken. “My first line woke him up. He apparently […]

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CSN: Who was the lead guitarist for Crosby, Stills & Nash since all three are considered to be proficient guitarists?

ACE writes: Neither David Crosby nor Graham Nash played lead guitar in CSN, only rhythm. Stephen Stills was their lead guitarist, and with no disrespect to Crosby and Nash, Stills was far and away the best guitarist of the three. In fact he’s widely considered one of the best guitarists in popular music history by […]

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THE GRATEFUL DEAD: After listening to 30 hours of Grateful Dead, can you explain to me what is so great about them, as they seem just ok at best to me?

EML writes: When you think of the Grateful Dead, you think of a band with a cult following—not a band that captured the American zeitgeist and held it for an extended period. But the band’s touring success rivals all others, and surpassed any other American band during the height of their era. The Grateful Dead […]

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THE BEATLES IN MONO and STEREO: Why were the Beatles albums released in both stereo and mono and why do some people prefer the mono mixes?

AJ writes: Good question. This answer may help to illuminate general questions about people’s preferences for mono over stereo. For most of the 1960s, mono was the default format in which most people listened to recorded music. Radios looked mostly like this: Record players (cassettes were not yet a thing, and digital music was decades […]

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Angela Hewitt on her new album, Love Songs

This week’s Podcast guest is pianist Angela Hewitt, who tells Editor Martin Cullingford about her beautiful new album ‘Love Songs’, transcriptions of songs by composers including Schumann, Schubert, Richard Strauss, Gluck, Grieg and De Falla – with arrangements by pianists and composers including Liszt, Godowsky, Grainger and Hewitt herself. The album is out today on […]

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After the Beatles broke up, did Paul McCartney ever see any of the other Beatles again?

TOM R writes: Paul joined the other three ex-Beatles to work on Ringo’s song “I’m the Greatest”. He even suggested doing something more but John Lennon immediately balked and had no interest. According to Lennon’s Playboy interview, in 1977–78, Paul used to show up at his Dakota apartment with his guitar and they’d hang out […]

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MILES DAVIS: Sun Palace, Fukuoka, Japan October ‘81 (CD)

Explosive performance at the Sun Palace, Fukuoka, Japan on October 11th 1981 Includes the entire broadcast Digitally remastered for greatly enhanced sound quality Background liners Following a six-year absence from music while he rebuilt his health, Miles Davis erupted back onto the live scene in 1981 with a new, young band comprising Bill Evans (sax, […]

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WAX CYLINDER RECORDINGS: Just how hard was recording on a wax cylinder?

Suzy Klein finds out – by making a record just as Elgar had done it I’ve loved exploring the last 100 years of music-making in Britain as we’ve recorded Our Classical Century. For this project we wanted to tell a story through our encounters with classical – both public and private – which brought into […]

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THE CREAM: When they were on fire.

Udiscover write: Four months before the Beatles made their bid for the best double album of 1968, Cream made theirs. ‘Wheels Of Fire,’ the record that introduced the classic ‘White Room’ and other great performances by the rock trio, was new in UK record shops exactly 47 years ago, on 9 August 1968, and became […]

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What is the meaning behind Mick Jagger’s song “Sympathy for the Devil”?

MICHAEL writes: Taken from a search, we find this insightful snapshot, given to provide some explanation for Sympathy For The Devil”. I find it interesting and coinciding with the reality perception back in the day. The Story behind ‘Sympathy For The Devil’ Over the last 50 years the Jagger/Richards songwriting partnership has produced some of […]

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DAVID LYTTLE: Facing All The Music

Ian Patterson (all about jazz) writes ….. In times when independent musicians have to function as one-person business enterprises most musicians show more than one face. David Lyttle, drummer par excellence from Waringstown, Northern Ireland, wears more faces than most. Musician, songwriter, record label owner, producer, interviewer and talent scout—Lyttle has built a solid reputation […]

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PORTER WAGONER: The Definitive Collection (2CD)

No one, but no one, painted a picture in song of despair and desolation like the Thin Man from the West Plains, Porter Wagoner. Forget the Nudie suit and the pompadour; Waylon Jennings once said that Wagoner couldn’t go pop with a mouthful of firecrackers, and these 40 songs prove it. Sure, the hits – […]

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BLUES: Our office playlist 31/10/22

The Dig 3 – Don’t SlipChris Martin – Flood WaterThe Durham Project – It Must Be LoveMartin Pugh- Steamhammer – Junior’s WailingJohn Németh – Sexy WaysMick Clarke – Can’t Stop Lovin’Superdownhome – Vacuity BluesRobert Hill Band & Joanne Lediger – Way Down In The HoleThe Mighty Soul Drivers – I Wouldn’t Treat A DogDetonics – […]

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