Tag: music
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Atlanta Studies | Parks are for the People: The Piedmont Park Riot and the Politics of Late 1960s Atlanta
By Christopher Huff In the summer of 1967, Atlanta Journal reporter Michael Palmer went undercover as a hippie. Hoping to provide his readers with some insight into a movement that had recently made its way into the national consciousness, Palmer put on a “white, ruffled shirt, and old vest, levies [sic] frayed at the cuffs”…
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Bob Dylan’s Masterpiece, “Blood on the Tracks,” Is Still Hard to Find | The New Yorker
By Alex Ross (New Yorker Magazine) In September, 1974, Bob Dylan spent four days in the old Studio A, his favorite recording haunt in Manhattan, and emerged with the greatest, darkest album of his career. It is a ten-song study in romantic devastation, as beautiful as it is bleak, worthy of comparison with Schubert’s “Winterreise.” Yet…
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Bob Dylan’s First Day with “Tangled Up in Blue” | The New Yorker
By Jeff Slate The New York sessions for Bob Dylan’s 1975 album, “Blood on the Tracks,” have always been ground zero for Dylan’s reputation as a cipher and a curmudgeon in the recording studio, intent on speeding through the proceedings and capturing lightning in a bottle, quality control be damned. As the story has been…
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Bob Dylan’s First Day with “Tangled Up in Blue” | The New Yorker
By Jeff Slate The New York sessions for Bob Dylan’s 1975 album, “Blood on the Tracks,” have always been ground zero for Dylan’s reputation as a cipher and a curmudgeon in the recording studio, intent on speeding through the proceedings and capturing lightning in a bottle, quality control be damned. As the story has been…
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The Musicians’ Olympus: Ric Grech (bass / violin)
Page created by Miguel Terol on 16th January 1998 – Last modified on: 24th May 2012. If you want to contribute with info, please write to: molympus1@gmail.com This is an amazing piece of research and the Leicester section is true. I can vouch for it. The whole site is excellent and a labour of love! (KW)…
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Interview with Dave Andrews of Radio Leicester about iconic music venue “Il Rondo”
This is an interview by Dave Andrews of Radio Leicester with me, Shaun Knapp, and Sue Barton about the iconic music venue Il Rondo that is now a store room for an Italian restaurant! It was amazing to see it and realise it was still there virtually unchanged but rather derelict. The Il Rondo hosted…
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The day Jazz fans had a riot |Telegraph
As he looks forward to the A Love Supreme festival, Ivan Hewett looks back at the day in 1960 that jazz fans went on the rampage at the third Beaulieu Jazz Festival Outdoor jazz festivals have an air of wholesome, clean fun. It’s hard to be cutting-edge when there are infants pottering about and midges…
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La Reverie Gypsy Jazz Band
Here are recent recordings and photos of La Reverie Gypsy Jazz Band. Recorded live on 22nd June 2017 at Rick Willson’s studio in Anstey, Leicestershire. Guitars: Will Smith, Keith Pell Accordion: Kenny Wilson Bass: Mike Whittle