Branford Marsalis Quartet & leading jazz singer Kurt Elling co-operate on a full album, a mix of standards & new compostions. 1. There’s a Boat Dat’s Leavin’ Soon for New York 2. Blue Gardenia 3. From One Island to Another 4. Practical Arrangement 5. Doxy 6. I’m a Fool to Want You 7. West Virginia […]
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12 CD set with 15 1/2 hours of music, including 7 hours of previously unreleased material. Includes the Dead’s nine Warner Bros. albums, digitally remastered in HDCD for superior quality. Contains a new 2-disc set, Birth of the Dead, featuring rare and previously unreleased recordings from the band’s pre-Warner days. Includes a 100-page book chronicling […]
The Strawbs’ concert in the Bedrock series is known as ‘Greatest Hits Live’, testament to the definitive nature of the ten-song set performed in 1990 by Dave Cousins, Tony Hooper, Brian Willoughby, Richard Hudson, Rod Demick and Chris Parren. This line-up of the ever-British changing folk-rockers played for seven years from 1986 through to 1992 […]
DIMITRI KEN: From a fringe musician to a superstar of Hip Hop: Let me tell you about this French guy, I mean, this genius: guy, I mean, this genius: This is Alain Mion, a Jazz Funk pianist. Back in the 70s, he formed a group named Cortex, and they released 3 albums between 1975 and […]
First published 2012 The strings play in helicopters, the trumpeter’s on a trapeze, and a camel dances around while defecating planets. Alexis Petridis on Birmingham Opera Company’s bid to stage a mind-boggling Stockhausen opera. MORE
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If you are a music-lover of a certain age, and it is the age of people who run the world, this is how a typical conversation about your abiding passion goes: you first of all lament the witless banality of reality shows, the ubiquity of Simon Cowell, and the way that singers can’t hold a […]
Jan Garbarek. Just bought 2 of his CDs off eBay for not much money. The first, ‘Sart’ is to my ears very odd indeed. A bit too way out for my taste. So after 6 repeat plays (I try to give everything a fair chance) it’s going back on eBay when I can get around […]
Perahia discusses and performs Bach’s French Suites to introduce his new album Continues HERE
We are told: Disc 1 shows the Wildman Of Rock n Roll, Ted Nugent, in full swing A stand-out performance from his 1984 tour with Humble Pie Featuring hits including Stranglehold, Cat Scratch Fever and Dog Eat Dog Disc 2 shows Nugent surfing the wave of success brought about by “Free For All” Recorded live […]
Originally published in January 2012 Until last year Sameer Rahim had little interest in classical music – but now he is hooked on opera. In a new column he offers a novice-eye’s view of this seemingly forbidding but truly magical art form. Continues HERE
The Western world’s love affair with “world music” has always had its blind spots. Japanese traditional music is one. You won’t find recordings of Shomyo Buddhist chanting or bunraku ensembles among the world music bestsellers. And you certainly won’t find gagaku, even though it’s the most extraordinary and riveting of all Japanese traditional musics. The […]
1000 only! On the weekend of April 4-6, 1969, the Grateful Dead headlined at the Avalon Ballroom, the last rock show at the Avalon for almost 40 years. The final night was broadcast on KPFA-FM Berkeley, generating a tape that was one of the few good quality ’69 tapes in early circulation. The two opening […]
After 3 years and over 1 million sales worldwide, the ‘Original Album Series’ continues to offer music lovers the easiest way to get their hands on the catalogue of the world’s biggest artists. Each one houses 5 albums all with their original artwork and music in slipcase form. With near 100 artists available […]
By SAMUEL STROUP January 24, 2018 Half a century into his musical career, English reed player John Surman continues to find outlets to explore a wide variety of introspective compositions. Invisible Threads, out on ECM, finds Surman exploring folk and world music, accompanied by pianist Nelson Ayres and mallet percussionist Rob Waring. The album features […]
A complete live performance by the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra and Andrés Orozco-Estrada The Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra’s YouTube channel continues to present some wonderful live performances. A couple of weeks ago we featured their account of Prokofiev’s First Symphony conducted by François Leleux, today it is a complete performance of Bartók’s Concerto for Orchestra conducted by […]
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From The Guardian: The next letter of our fortnightly alphabetical tour of the world and work of Richard Wagner is B, for Bayreuth and Brünnhilde. B is for Bayreuth, the capital of Upper Franconia in southern Germany, but more to the point the capital of Wagneria – it styles itself “Wagnerstadt” on local signs. It […]
Benoit Rolland acknowledges that the violin reigns supreme as the star of the strings, capable of fetching millions of dollars at auction. But what about the bow? “A violin with no bow is not a violin, that’s clear,” says Rolland. “A lot of people, even some instrumentalists, in our younger years we believe that the […]
The stark but simple image of a prism on a black background is a far cry from the bombast of a giant pig flying over Battersea power station or flaming businessmen. Yet the cover of Pink Floyd’s classic 1973 album The Dark Side of the Moon is probably one of the most instantly recognisable ever […]