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Mel Collins is a British saxophonist, flutist, and session musician, who was born on September 5, 1947, in Isle of Man, UK. He is best known for his work as a member of the progressive rock bands King Crimson and Camel, as well as his collaborations with other prominent musicians.
Collins began his music career in the late 1960s, playing saxophone and flute in various bands and sessions. In 1970, he joined King Crimson as a session musician, playing on their landmark album "Lizard." He subsequently became a full-time member of the band for their next two albums, "Islands" and "Larks' Tongues in Aspic."
Red (50th Anniversary)
By Robert Fripp
Label: Panegyric Recordings
Released: 2024
Track listing: Red; Fallen Angel; One More Red Nightmare; Providence; Starless.
Genius Loci 2024
by Neri Pollastri
Complesso Monumentale di Santa Croce Genius Loci 2024 Firenze 26-29 Settembre 2024 Per il settimo anno l'Opera di Santa Croce ha aperto gli spazi del meraviglioso complesso monumentale che circonda la basilica fiorentina per dar vita al caleidoscopico festival Genius Loci, due serate (e un'alba) di concerti, spettacoli ...
Patto, Una Mirabolante Avventura Senza Rete.
by Maurizio Comandini
Siamo alla fine degli anni sessanta, Mike Patto è un ragazzone inglese con una bella voce potente e ruvida, la musica lo affascina e capisce subito che non c'è miglior momento per iniziare una avventura esistenziale che profuma di rock e di jazz, senza dimenticare la vena blues di fondo che un giovane cantante incazzato non ...
Music is Our Friend: Live In Washington and Albany, 2021
By King Crimson
Label: Panegyric Recordings
Released: 2021
Track listing: CD1: Introductory Soundscape; The Hell Hounds Of Krim; Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part I; Pictures Of A City; The Court Of The Crimson King; Red; Tony Cadenza Deals It Slitheryacious-To-The-Max; Neurotica; One More Red Nightmare; Indiscipline.
CD2: Epitaph; Radical Action II; Level Five; Starless; 21st Century Schizoid Man; Tony Cadenza Serves It Piping Hot; Discipline; Larks' Tongues In Aspic Part II; Islands.
King Crimson: Music is Our Friend: Live In Washington and Albany, 2021
by John Kelman
You probably know the old adage about assumptions. After seeing the current (slightly fluid) King Crimson lineup twice every time the perennially groundbreaking group made it to North American shores since 2014, with no Canadian dates available in 2021 and the COVID Delta variant running rampant across the United States, the decision was made to forego ...
Who Do You Think We Are?
by John Kelman
Trying to find a distinct definition of what has come to be known as “The Canterbury Sound" is as elusive as attempting to describe what, in the jazz world, has become an overused epithet for the German ECM Records label and “The ECM Sound." Attempts to do so usually fail short because, rather than being actual ...
Secrets & Lies
Label: Inside Out Music
Released: 2020
Track listing: Before I Met You; The Trouble With Angels; Fools Mandate; The Rotters Club is Closing Down (a
song for Pip); Uncertain Times; It Would All Make Sense; Secrets, Lies & Broken Memories;
Under Lock & Key; The Borders We Traded; Trading Borders; Separation.
King Crimson: The Complete 1969 Recordings
by John Kelman
There will, inevitably, exist some cynics who will dispute the first comment about King Crimson's long-awaited The Complete 1969 Recordings box set, but it's difficult to imagine it being anything but the plain truth. This is, indeed, the definitive final word on the band's first lineup, collecting multiple versions of its earth-shattering 1969 Island Records debut, ...
Jakko M. Jakszyk: Secrets & Lies
by John Kelman
Life often unfolds in unexpected ways. For some, like Jakko M. Jakszyk, it has taken some truly surprising twists and turns. That the 62 year-old multi-instrumentalist, vocalist and songwriter has attained considerably greater visibility in the last ten years than in the previous 35 has, to say the least, righted a significant wrong. Which makes the ...
