ERICA JEAL: With its new season opening this weekend, the Southbank Centre’s 32-year-old leader talks about how he’s shaping the venue to reflect classical music today, the magic of live music, and the challenge of keeping the lights – and the heating – on Toks Dada is reeling off the concerts that make up the […]
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We are told: Portrait in Jazz was Bill Evans’ third album as a leader, following ‘New Jazz Conceptions’ (1956) and ‘Everybody Digs Bill Evans’ (1958). It was also Evans’ first album with the talented bassist Scott La Faro.Their superb chemistry is evident from the very first tune and Evans was surely aware of that. […]
Reverend Keith A. Gordon writes: Richard Johnston doesn’t need much room on a stage to perform. Tucked in behind a foot-operated drum kit, he’ll pick up a guitar, lean over towards the microphone and begin wailing the dirtiest, lowdown country blues you’ve ever heard. In a space barely the size of a postage stamp compared […]
Progressive metal has its roots in the progressive rock movement of the ’70s. In the mid-1980s, bands began to take the basics of progressive rock and add in a heavy metal sound to the equation, forming a new style of progressive music. Progressive metal became huge in the early ’90s, with Queensrÿche and Dream Theater […]
Emotional echoes of the artist’s complicated public history reverberate through his album’s solid collection of mature mid-tempo rockers and ballads READ MORE HERE
The Guardian writes We asked our followers on Twitter and Facebook to nominate the best Led Zeppelin songs for newcomers. Here are the results: 10 key tracks we hope will act as a rounded introduction to their music. We’ve put them into a YouTube playlist, or you can click each song title to go to […]
The great jazz pianist talks about racism, discovering Africa and the power of music to change lives Please click HERE to continue
From the archives ….. Geoffrey Norris: This is a strange set, but a curiously compelling one as well. The Norwegian pianist Sigurd Slåttebrekk, in collaboration with the record producer Tony Harrison, has closely – not to say obsessively – examined the acoustic recordings that his fellow countryman Grieg made of nine of his own piano […]
John Primer – Please Don’t Leave Me – Soul Of a BluesmanGwyn Ashton – Fool In Your Life – Sonic Blues PreachersAlly Venables – Running After You – Texas HoneyThe Primitive Noise Band – Ghosts – GhostsRick Vito – I Do Believe – SoulshakerRK Turner – The Fishes & 5 Loaves of Bread – Coming […]
ROBERT F writes: After the untimely demise of drummer John Bonham in the fall of 1980, Led Zeppelin collectively decided that without their fallen comrade there would be no way to continue. Which meant, after 11 years of recording, relentless touring and being among the most heralded and famous people on earth, they were once […]
When you count out the original Blues men from the United States, the Paul Butterfield Blues Band is arguably the finest example of raw Blues essence. With white harmonica player Butterfield at the center, the racially integrated group started as one of the first authentic and genuine British Blues combos. They were the real […]
Whenever I hit the road to attend a HiFi show or help set up a system I make sure I am armed to the teeth with my reference material. Going into a stereo setup without my trusted media would be akin to that old nightmare of showing up at a cocktail party naked. Our reference […]
Greg Jenner is joined by historical expert Dr Michell Chresfield and comedian Desiree Burch to travel to 1920s Paris and meet the phenomenal Josephine Baker. Josephine Baker was a renowned performer and entertainer, a civil rights activist and even a spy during the German occupation of France. But just how did the daughter of a […]
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Previously published here and elsewhere The Oscar-nominated composer on his new ballet, and life as ‘a pencil for hire’ Most of my working life as a composer has been spent as what the late James Horner captured in the phrase ‘a pencil for hire’, creating music on demand for drama in film, TV, and theatre. […]
BW writes: George was not enamored with Yoko. There were instances were she supposedly hurt her back, yet George saw her walking around Abbey Rd. studio. She, also, was to have taken his food several times. But one of the big blow ups came when George asked John to appear for the concert for Bangladesh. […]
TL writes: Paul McCartney was generally fairly realistic when assessing Beatles’ songs. However, he inexplicably once said that his favorite Beatles song was “You Know My Name (Look Up the Number).” And there were Beatles songs that he didn’t like. For example, he didn’t like “She Said She Said”, “Revolution No. 9”, “Yer Blues” and […]
The legendary Keith Jarrett Trio, playing live at NDR Funkhaus, Hamburg in July 1972, is captured at the very apex of its creativity on an album released for the first time by ECM. From the first notes, with its radiant piano, it is clear that something special is happening here. The trio with Charlie Haden […]
Four-disc, 52-track set featuring more than three hours of unreleased performances. Features the complete performance from London’s Royal Albert Hall plus performances from Colston Hall in Bristol and Fairfield Halls in Croydon. Special guests include guitarists Eric Clapton and Dave Mason, bassist Carl Radle, drummer Jim Gordon, organist Bobby Whitlock, Jim Price and Bobby Keys […]
A stellar radio broadcast from the Greetings From Asbury Park, NJ tour. Bruce and the E Street Band are in particularly fine form and perform some rather experimental and drawn out versions of some of their nicest tunes, most notably, a gorgeous performance of “New York City Serenade”. Remastered in audiophile quality and presented beautifully in a […]
Amen, Brother was a little-known B-side released in 1969. Barely noticed at the time, its drum solo has been hugely influential, appearing in different forms in more than 1,500 other songs – but the band behind it never made any money from it. Please click HERE to continue