Jazz Articles about Brian Eno

Brian Eno: Reflection

by Nenad Georgievski
January 14, 2017

Composer and producer Brian Eno's ambient record Reflection truly goes to the mind and the heart in a quiet and seductive way. This hour long intriguing and captivating tapestry of carefully interwoven sounds conjures up landscapes of internal emotions that reflect the warmth and quiet of the first day of the new year when it was released. Eno's records have always been a fascinating blend of aesthetic, emotions, careful strategy and technology and as such have always functioned on many ...

Brian Eno: Visual Music

by Nenad Georgievski
January 25, 2014

Brian Eno: Visual Music Christopher Scoates 416 pages ISBN: 1452108498 Chronicle Books 2013 To say that polymath Brian Eno is one of the most influential figures of our time would be a severe understatement. Eno has been one of the pivotal figures of the 20th century music as he introduced a popular voice to a century of musical change, and he has continued to do so in the next one he has ...

Brian Eno and David Byrne: My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts

by Nenad Georgievski
July 15, 2006

Brian Eno and David Byrne My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts Nonesuch 2006 (1981) A lot of people get called geniuses, and not all of them deserve it. But if a genius is someone with that rare gift of transforming the intangible into the tangible, of turning ideas into reality, then Brian Eno is a genius. One of the far-reaching innovations he helped bring about was the transformation of studio technology ...

Brian Eno / David Byrne: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts

by John Kelman
April 20, 2006

My Life in the Bush of Ghosts was rightfully heralded as groundbreaking when it was first released in 1981. Ambient forefather Brian Eno and Talking Heads singer/songwriter David Byrne created an innovative blend that set precedents for numerous trends, including electronica, sampling and world music. The cerebral concept was also remarkably physical--dance music for thinking people, as it were.

25 years later it remains important, and Nonesuch's remastered reissue has only improved it with the addition of seven tracks that, ...

Brian Eno: The Soundtracks Reissues

by John Kelman
April 4, 2005

While ex-Roxy Music keyboardist Brian Eno was establishing a distinctive and new style of music that he called Ambient Music--which investigated the potential of making music as an integral part of the listenerâïïs aural landscape--he was also finding ways to mold the concept, albeit in sometimes a more direct way, to integrate it with other media including film. Like the Ambient Works series, where Astralwerks and Virgin recently reissued Enoâïïs seminal Ambient recordings in beautifully remastered form, the ...

Brian Eno: Ambient Forefather

by John Kelman
December 3, 2004

When Roxy Music keyboardist Brian Eno and King Crimson guitarist Robert Fripp first put together two Revox tape recorders in 1973, making it possible to build layer-upon-layer of sound, the result was a kind of music the likes of which had never been heard before. On the landmark recordings No Pussyfooting ('73) and Evening Star ('75) Fripp created a multitude of guitar loops over which he could then add improvisations, the result being something that was trance-inducing yet, at the ...

Cuckooland

by Joshua Weiner
December 19, 2003

The marriage of jazz and rock musical styles has had a checkered history. The late '60s records of Cannonball Adderley, Gary Burton, Tony Williams, and Miles Davis stretched the boundaries of jazz music while successfully bringing it to a broad young audience. The later development of Fusion with a capital “F" by Mahavishnu Orchestra, Return To Forever, and Weather Report led to platinum sales by jazz artists and some great records.It also, unfortunately, prompted the release of many ...