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Jeff Beck

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Jeff Beck isn't your typical guitar legend. His goal, in fact, is to make you forget that he plays guitar.

"I don't understand why some people will only accept a guitar if it has an instantly recognizable guitar sound," says Beck."Finding ways to use the same guitar people have been using for 50 years to make sounds that no one has heard before is truly what gets me off. I love it when people hear my music but can't figure out what instrument I'm playing. What a cool compliment."

Beck burst onto the music scene in 1966 after joining the Yardbirds. Although his stint with the band lasted only 18 months, Beck played on almost all of the group's hits. More importantly, Beck's innovative style heard on classics like "Heart Full of Soul" and "Shapes of Things" helped influence the psychedelic sound of the "60s.

Album

Fearless: The Anthology 1965-2025

Label: BMG
Released: 2025
Track listing: CD 1: You're on My Mind; The Girls Are Naked; Plynth (Water Down the Drain); Flying; Gasoline Alley; Had Me a Real Good Time; Every Picture Tells a Story; Miss Judy's Farm; Stay with Me Too Bad; True Blue; Ooh La La; I Can Feel the Fire; Mystifies Me Far East Man; Breathe on Me; I Can Say She's Alright; Now Look CD 2: Hey Negrita; Just for a Moment; Lost and Lonely; Seven Days; Dance (Pt. 1); Everything Is Turning to Gold; Black Limousine; No Use in Crying; Outlaws; Pretty Beat Up; Somebody Else Might; This Little Heart; Whadd'ya Think; I Gotta See; Thing About You; Why You Wanna Go Do a Thing Like That; Mother of Pearl; A Certain Girl; Take It Easy; You're So Fine.

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Article: Album Review

Ronnie Wood: Fearless: The Anthology 1965-2025

Read "Fearless: The Anthology 1965-2025" reviewed by Doug Collette


If the Ronnie Wood anthology Fearless proves anything, it is that the predominant virtues of the peripatetic British musician are largely intangible. Not that the guitarist, songwriter and singer is not talented in those various roles, but that his most salient attributes, at least as depicted here, as those of a convivial individual who invariably contributes ...

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Article: Radio & Podcasts

Roland Heinz, Commoidore, Mr Motaba, Anika Nilles, Lyle Workman, Bob Frye

Read "Roland Heinz, Commoidore, Mr Motaba, Anika Nilles, Lyle Workman, Bob Frye" reviewed by Len Davis


On today's show, it's the usual eclectic mix of global fusion, jazz, and a few old favourites to wrap things up. We start with German guitarist and synth player Roland Heinz, joined by New York's Adam Holzman, then head to Argentina with jazz fusion band Commodore and to Brazil with Mr. Motaba and their Brazilian-tinged fusion ...

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Article: Top Ten List

50 Years Later: 10 Jazz Albums from 1975 That Deserve Another Spin

Read "50 Years Later: 10 Jazz Albums from 1975 That Deserve Another Spin" reviewed by Kyle Simpler


1975 was a landmark year for music, marked by several outstanding album releases. Bob Dylan's Blood on the Tracks (Columbia), Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti (Swan Song), Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here (Harvest), Frank Zappa's One Size Fits All (DiscReet) and Jeff Beck's Blow by Blow (Epic) were just a few of the titles that have ...

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Article: Opinion

Improvisation Versus Composition

Read "Improvisation Versus Composition" reviewed by Robert J. Lewis


What is it that attracts music lovers to jazz (improvised music)? Is it the loose structure, or the beat or the notes and melodies we have never heard before and will never hear again, unless the performance has been recorded? Or is it the musician's uncanny ability to spontaneously translate feelings that inform the notes into ...

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Article: Album Review

Will Brahm: Distance to Empty

Read "Distance to Empty" reviewed by Karan Khosla


Distance to Empty is a phrase that carries a familiar feeling--something you might glimpse glowing on the dashboard as you pull away from a final pit stop before a long journey. Will Brahm, metaphorically and musically, poses these questions: How far can you go with what you have? What is left in the tank? What is ...

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Article: Film Review

The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins

Read "The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins" reviewed by Doug Collette


Nicky Hopkins The Session Man Alan Fergurson2025 The very title of Mike Treen's film The Session Man: Nicky Hopkins understates the singular stature of the documentary's subject. Nicky Hopkins was a British keyboardist/composer who played on over two-hundred vintage era recordings by genuinely iconic musical figures of contemporary rock like the ...

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Article: Album Review

Various Artists: A New Awakening: Adventures in British Jazz 1966-1971

Read "A New Awakening: Adventures in British Jazz 1966-1971" reviewed by Peter Jones


Throughout the 1950s (and beyond), modernist British jazz musicians were in thrall to the American bebop stars they had been trying to emulate since the late 1940s. It was the pinnacle to which they aspired, and gradually their efforts lifted the overall standard of UK jazz. But by the early 1960s, the international success ...

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Article: Highly Opinionated

Fantasy Box Set League

Read "Fantasy Box Set League" reviewed by Patrick Burnette


Box sets are back, baby! Some of us old timers thought they might be gone for good after the CD crash (remember when Joe Henderson's The Milestone Years was going for twenty-bucks at your local mall?) But companies have realized that for those happy few who continue collecting “physical media," the big-ole stack of music still ...


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