John DCultureYo-Yo Ma Performs the First Classical Piece He Ever Learned: Take a 12-Minute Mental Health Break and Watch His Moving “Tinyopenculture.com - by Ayun Halliday For those who feel their enjoyment of J.S. Bach’s gorgeous Prelude from Cello Suite No. 1 in G major has been undercut rather than enhanced by its …
John DMusic “It Was Beyond My Wildest Dreams” Pianist Ahmad Jamal Recalls ‘At The Pershing’udiscovermusic.com - Charles Waring Chess Records is synonymous with the Chicago electric blues scene of the 50s, when iconic names such as Muddy Waters, Howlin’ Wolf, Bo Diddley and Chuck …
John DBrian Eno Before Brian Eno made Music For Airports, Ernest Hood made music for NeighborhoodsThe A.V. Club - A.V. ClubIn 1975, three years before Brian Eno introduced the word “ambient” to the world, Portland-based musician Ernest Hood quietly released his sole LP via private press. With its oatmeal-colored cover, delicately
John DArt Blakey Art Blakey: Praise the Messenger - JazzTimesjazztimes.com - By Michael J. West Everybody does the voice. Not just for his characteristic sayings, but for the mundanities. “He’d say, ‘Thank you,’” recalls trombonist Robin …
John DArt Blakey Art Blakey: How The Jazz Messenger Shaped The Future Of Jazzudiscovermusic.com - Charles Waring As any well-read jazz fan will know, Art Blakey was so much more than a powerhouse drummer armed with a swashbuckling, polyrhythmic style. He was …
John DJazz Jazz Night In America: The PlaylistNPR - Nate ChinenJazz has a glorious history, but it's also a music of boundless curiosity, brash experimentation and an ever-changing set of tools. Such is the complex landscape covered by Jazz Night in America, which
John DElton John Elton John’s ‘Me’ is a Uniquely Revealing Pop Star AutobiographyRolling Stone - Andy Greene Elton found salvation in rock & roll, though only after years of struggling on the British pub circuit and backing American R&B greats like Patti …
John DNeil Young Neil Young Sets One-Night-Only Release for ‘Colorado’ Doc ‘Mountaintop’Rolling Stone - Daniel Kreps Neil Young offers fans a one-night-only glimpse into the making of Colorado in Mountaintop, a documentary that provides an in-studio look into Young’s …
John DMusic Ginger Baker’s Wild RhythmsRolling Stone - David Browne When Ginger Baker was a teenager, his life was transformed in two lasting ways. While at a party around age 15, he was encouraged to sit down at a …
John DCulture The Women of Rock: Discover an Oral History Project That Features Pioneering Women in Rock Musicopenculture.com - by Josh Jones If you’ve wondered why projects celebrating women in the history of rock are needed, maybe all you need to do is listen to women in rock. Stories of …
John DCultureHow Grace Slick Wrote “White Rabbit”: The 1960s Classic Inspired by LSD, Lewis Carroll, Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain, Hypocriticalopenculture.com - by Josh Jones I never know what to do with the fact that Jefferson Airplane became Jefferson Starship became Starship—purveyors of “We Built This City,” a …
John DDavid Gilmour David Gilmour Makes His Live at Pompeii Concert Film Free to Watch Onlineopenculture.com - by Ted Mills On a hot October day in 1971, Pink Floyd and their crew assembled their live gear in an empty ancient Pompeii amphitheater and, with a film crew …
John DBaroque A Performance on a Unique Baroque Contrabassoonlaughingsquid.com - Lori Dorn Musician David Chatterton of The Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, who previously demonstrated the sound of a giant contrabassoon used by …
John DArt Blakey Art Blakey's Legacy: A Rallying Cry And A Gathering PlaceNPR - Tom VitaleArt Blakey was born 100 years ago, on Oct. 11, 1919, and America's homegrown music — jazz — might not sound quite like it does today if it weren't for the influence of the late drummer. "I would call Blakey's
John DMusic Rick Wakeman on His Tumultuous History With Yes, Playing on Bowie’s ‘Space Oddity’Rolling Stone - Andy Greene When Yes were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2017, the surviving members of the band lined up behind a podium at the Barclays Center …
John DPaul McCartney ‘Paul Is Dead’: The Bizarre Story of Music’s Most Notorious Conspiracy TheoryRolling Stone - Rob Sheffield Fifty years ago, a Detroit DJ accidentally started the biggest hoax in rock & roll history: the “Paul is dead” craze. It blew up on October 12, 1969, …
John DJerry Garcia Grateful Dead Photographer Jay Blakesberg Trains His Lens on Jerry Garcia's Final Daysinsidehook.com - Evan Bleier While they may not always be able recall their birthdate or the hospital where they were born, any Deadhead worth his or her pink Himalayan salt can …
John DEntertainment (UK) Ringo Starr: Abbey Road wasn't meant to be The Beatles' last albumbbc.co.uk - Matt Everitt Last week, The Beatles' Abbey Road returned to number one, almost 50 years after its original release.
John DFreddie Mercury Freddie Mercury Facts: 15 Things You Never Knew About Queen’s Frontmanudiscovermusic.com - Martin Chilton So, everybody knows that Freddie Mercury was a gifted songwriter, a breathtakingly original performer and frontman of one of the greatest bands of all …
John DThe Beatles John Lennon’s least favourite Beatles song has been revealedNME - Will Richards An unearthed interview from 1970 has revealed John Lennon‘s least favourite Beatles song. Read more: The Beatles’ ‘Abbey Road’ at 50: 10 perfect …
John DFleetwood Mac Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Tusk’: 10 Things You Didn’t KnowRolling Stone - Ryan Reed Fleetwood Mac’s 12th album is both demented and debonair, familiar and foreign — a sprawling double LP that, like the Beatles’ White Album before it, …
John DBass Guitar Walking the Changes | Legends of Double Bass in Jazzbassmusicianmagazine.com - Bass Musician Walking the Changes, A documentary film exploring the evolution of the double bass in jazz. “In Jazz, as in most music, the bass is the bottom …
John DMusic Frank Zappa Marks 50th Anniversary of ‘Hot Rats’ With Massive ReissueRolling Stone - Daniel Kreps Frank Zappa’s estate will mark the 50th anniversary of the guitarist and composer’s Hot Rats — released on this date in 1969 — with a six-disc reissue …
John DThelonious Monk Song of the Day: Thelonious Monk – “Straight, No Chaser”jazziz.com - Brian Zimmerman Thelonious Monk, the visionary jazz pianists whose elegantly simple compositions and idiosyncratic harmonies made him one of the most important jazz …
John DFreddie Mercury ‘Barcelona’: How Freddie Mercury And Montserrat Caballé Made Opera Rockudiscovermusic.com - Martin Chilton “When I was planning to do my second solo project, I really didn’t want it to be just another bunch of songs,” said Freddie Mercury, looking back on …
John DCulture (UK) John Coltrane's 'lost' film soundtrack and five more must-see movies for jazz loversThe Conversation UK - Martin Hall John Coltrane – a giant of the jazz world – wrote and recorded in 1964 a soundtrack for the French-Canadian movie Le Chat Dans le Sac, backed by his …
John DCultureTalking Heads Songs Become Midcentury Pulp Novels, Magazines & Advertisements: “Burning Down the House,” “Once in a Lifetime,”openculture.com - by Colin Marshall Do you like Talking Heads? Writer and visual artist Douglas Coupland once proposed that question as the truest test of whether you belong to the …
John DMusic Grateful Dead: Unreleased Tracks Highlight New Live LP ‘Ready or Not’Rolling Stone - Ryan Reed A new Grateful Dead LP collects previously unreleased live songs from the early to mid-Nineties that envisioned a potential track list for an …
John DCulture See Why Ginger Baker (RIP) Was One of the Greatest Drummers in Rock & World Musicopenculture.com - by Josh Jones When talk of classic rock drummers turns to Keith Moon and John Bonham, I smile and nod. What’s the point in arguing? They were both, in their …
