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John Lennon
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John Lennon was the Beatles' most committed rock & roller, their social conscience, and their slyest verbal wit. After the group's breakup, he and his second wife, Yoko Ono, carried on intertwined solo careers. Ono's early albums presaged the elastic, screechy vocal style of late- '70s new wavers like the B-52's and Lene Lovich. L7 and Babes in Toyland have also been influenced by and benefited from Ono's attitudinal, emotionally trailblazing work. Lennon strove to break taboos and to be ruthlessly, publicly honest. When he was murdered on December 8, 1980, he and Ono seemed on the verge of a new, more optimistic phase
Diamond Dust: The Eccentric Genius of Jeff Beck
by Doug Collette
The man played like he had a love/hate relationship with his guitar. One moment he could be ever-so-gently coaxing bittersweet strains from the strings and the next he could very well be wringing tortuous sounds from up and down the fretboard, as often as not thanks to his instinctively savvy use of the whammy bar. It ...
Ugly Beauty: The Music and Mind of Ben Allison
by AAJ Staff
This interview was conducted by Paul F. Roberts and was first published at All About Jazz in September 2001. All of us have a story in our head-a myth of how a new jazz talent gets discovered. Here's how it goes: The young musician—let's call him “the Kid"-practices alone in his bedroom ...
Revolver Super Deluxe Edition (5CD)
By The Beatles
Label: UME/Apple/Capitol
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD 1: Revolver (New stereo mix) - Taxman; Eleanor Rigby; I’m Only Sleeping; Love
You To; Here, There And Everywhere; Yellow Submarine; She Said She Said; Good
Day Sunshine; And Your Bird Can Sing; For No One; Doctor Robert; I Want To Tell
You; Got To Get You Into My Life; Tomorrow Never Knows. CD 2: Sessions One -
Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1); Tomorrow Never Knows (Mono mix RM 11); Got To
Get You Into My Life (First version) – Take 5; Got To Get You Into My Life (Second
version) – Unnumbered mix - mono; Got To Get You Into My Life (Second version) –
Take 8; Love You To (Take 1) - mono; Love You To (Unnumbered rehearsal) - mono;
Love You To (Take 7); Paperback Writer (Takes 1 and 2) – Backing track – mono; Rain
(Take 5 – Actual speed); Rain (Take 5 – Slowed down for master tape); Doctor Robert
(Take 7); And Your Bird Can Sing (First version) – Take 2; And Your Bird Can Sing
(First version) – Take 2 (giggling). CD 3: Sessions Two - And Your Bird Can Sing
(Second version) – Take 5; Taxman (Take 11); I’m Only Sleeping (Rehearsal fragment)
- mono; I’m Only Sleeping (Take 2) - mono; I’m Only Sleeping (Take 5) - mono; I’m
Only Sleeping (Mono mix RM1); Eleanor Rigby (Speech before Take 2) Eleanor Rigby
(Take 2); For No One (Take 10) – Backing track; Yellow Submarine (Songwriting work
tape – Part 1) - mono; Yellow Submarine (Songwriting work tape – Part 2) – mono;
Yellow Submarine (Take 4 before sound effects); Yellow Submarine (Highlighted
sound effects); I Want To Tell You (Speech and Take 4); Here, There And Everywhere
(Take 6); She Said She Said (John’s demo) - mono; She Said She Said (Take 15) –
Backing track rehearsal. CD 4: Revolver (Original mono master) - Tracklist same as
above. CD5: Revolver EP - Paperback Writer (New stereo mix); Rain (New stereo
mix); Paperback Writer (Original mono mix remastered); Rain (Original mono mix
remastered).
Revolver Super Deluxe Edition (5CD)
by Doug Collette
The five CDs in The Beatles' Revolver Super Deluxe Edition reaffirm a fundamental verity regarding the group's work. The Liverpudlian quartet was never more unified in its creativity than in writing, recording and producing the sixteen tracks that comprise the box in collaboration with producer George Martin, engineer Geoff Emerick and the additional musicians and technicians ...
Jazz In Marciac 2022
by Martin McFie
Le Chapiteau, L'Astrada, Jgo Jazz in Marciac Marciac, Southern France July 22 to August 6, 2022 The 43rd annual Jazz in Marciac festival welcomed a quarter million concert visitors to the 13th century French village of Marciac (population 1,247). Jazz in Marciac comes late and runs long in the European ...
Gil Scott-Heron: Paean To The Spirit Of One Of The Last Poets
by William H. Snyder
IntroductionWhat does it take to be a griot? According to the dictionary, griots are a 'member of a hereditary caste among the peoples of western Africa whose function is to keep an oral history of the tribe or village and to entertain with stories, poems, songs, dances, etc.' Gil Scott-Heron did not grow up in West ...
The Beatles And India
by Doug Collette
The Beatles The Beatles And India Renoir Pictures/MVD 2022 The Beatles And India is not an authorized piece of film approved for release thru the current Apple organization, but perhaps it ought to be. This feature-length documentary collects in one place the various story lines arising around the iconic British band's ...
Michael Robinson's Piano Improvisations: Seven Albums of Unique Takes on Standards
by Hrayr Attarian
Keyboardist Michael Robinson is a prolific and creative artist who is best known for his haunting, Eastern-inspired, musical soundscapes. He usually utilizes his own invention, the digital Meruvina, for these recordings. Robinson, however, is also an accomplished pianist and has self-produced several superb solo albums of piano improvisations. In 2021 and 2022 he released seven of ...
Caravan in 37 dischi
by Maurizio Comandini
Impressionante. Questa è la prima parola che ci viene in mente per Who Do You Think You Are?, uno dei cofanetti più esaustivi della produzione discografica legata al rock. 35 CD, un DVD, un disco Blu-ray. Un volume di grande formato con circa 150 pagine riccamente illustrate, decina e decina di memorabilia legate alla storia dei ...
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