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Ian Anderson Will Return to Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick for First Time in Decades
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Something Else!
Ian Anderson is celebrating the 40th anniversary of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick by playing the progressive rock epic in its entirety for the first time since 1972. But not with the band with which he once sang and played the flute. Anderson prefers the more intimate settings that a solo tour provides: “The audiences that I attract as Ian Anderson have come to listen to the music and have the sensitivity to keep quiet at the appropriate moments." ...
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Astronaut Cady Coleman and Ian Anderson - A Flute Duet out of This World
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MassJazz: Jazz in Massachusetts
American astronaut Catherine “Cady" Coleman and Scottish flutist Ian Anderson from the band Jethro Tull played the first-ever flute duet between Earth and space. The duet played the tune Bourree in E minor by Johann Sebastian Bach. It was in honor of Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gargarin, who became the first man to enter outer space fifty years ago today, on April 12, 1961. On that day, President Kennedy congratulated Russian Premier Khrushchev by telegram, and it marked the race between ...
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