Results for "The Beatles"

Ahmad Jamal: Forward Momentum

by Ian Patterson
April 17, 2023

In memory of the venerable Ahmad Jamal. This article was first published on All About Jazz on July 6, 2010. Ahmad Jamal, possibly the most influential of living jazz pianists, turned 80 years young on July 2, 2010. It is however, business as usual and instead of celebrating at home in his slippers, Jamal ...

Andrew Vogt

Born: July 17, 1990

Andrew Vogt is an accomplished musician and composer from Chicago who, in addition to writing, producing and performing his own original music, collaborates and performs regularly with singers and songwriters from all genres of music. He has written and arranged over 200 pieces of music and has recorded over 300 songs (60 albums) as a performer.

Awarded the Luminarts' 2020 "People's Choice" award for Solo Jazz performance at Buddy Guy's Legends in Chicago, he has also been found recently collaborating in the writing and arranging of music for the ATLYS string quartet. Since 2018, Vogt and ATLYS have released numerous singles including wildly successful covers of “A Day in the Life” and “Imagine.” Through this partnership, he also had the opportunity to arrange the music of hit-machine songwriter Tom Kelly (Cyndi Lauper, Phil Collins, Madonna, The Pretenders, The Bangles) for a performance with Kelly in Lafayette, Indiana.

Jazz Honors The Beatles

by AAJ Staff
April 13, 2023

All About Jazz is honoring The Fab Four in the year of the 60th anniversary of the release of their first album (Please Please Me). This collective tribute was originally published in September 2009--as a living document, we'll add more quotes & stories over time (see how-to in comments section). We also compiled a companion playlist ...

Michael Robinson and Anindo Chatterjee's Reinterpretation of Standards

by Hrayr Attarian
April 8, 2023

After releasing several albums with drummer Eliot Zigmund in 2022, pianist and composer Michael Robinson starts off 2023 with a series of collaborations with tabla master Anindo Chatterjee. Similar to his other duo and solo sessions these are long improvisations on popular tunes both from the Great American Songbook as well as some rock and roll ...

The Record Store Owner: Jim Eigo

by B.D. Lenz
April 3, 2023

The last couple decades have brought a revolution in every aspect of the music-making process. Technology has transformed the creation of music, the promotion of music, and of course the distribution of music. At the very end of this delivery pipeline there has been a variety of formats that includes bulky vinyl records and clunky CDs, ...

Peter Erskine Trio: As It Was

by John Kelman
February 11, 2023

The box set you hold in your hands features three players who came together in an exceptional group to play some of the most compelling and exploratory piano trio music of the 20th Century's final decade. This threesome, led by Peter Erskine, released four albums recorded between July 1991 and July 1997: 1993's You Never Know, ...

Alex Sino

Born: April 24

Dr. Alex Sino is a 2-time Latin Grammy Award Winner,  screenwriter, producer, and lyricist. He has worked with numerous established and emerging artists including Al Di Meola, Leonid Agutin, MC Solaar, Macy Gray, Arturo Sandoval, Rudy Perez, Anthony Jackson, Xavier Naidoo, Till Bronner, Orlando “Maraca” Valle, No Mercy, Jon Secada, Diego Torres, Amaury Gutierrez, Carlos Oliva, Omara Portuondo, Jimmy Rosenberg along with many others.

In his decades-long career, Dr. Alex Sino has created and produced an impressive list of prominent songs, albums, music videos, and movies. Among the more recent highlights are:

Diamond Dust: The Eccentric Genius of Jeff Beck

by Doug Collette
January 14, 2023

The man played like he had a love/hate relationship with his guitar. One moment he could be ever-so-gently coaxing bittersweet strains from the strings and the next he could very well be wringing tortuous sounds from up and down the fretboard, as often as not thanks to his instinctively savvy use of the whammy bar. It ...

Revolver Super Deluxe Edition (5CD)

By The Beatles

Label: UME/Apple/Capitol
Released: 2022
Track listing: CD 1: Revolver (New stereo mix) - Taxman; Eleanor Rigby; I’m Only Sleeping; Love You To; Here, There And Everywhere; Yellow Submarine; She Said She Said; Good Day Sunshine; And Your Bird Can Sing; For No One; Doctor Robert; I Want To Tell You; Got To Get You Into My Life; Tomorrow Never Knows. CD 2: Sessions One - Tomorrow Never Knows (Take 1); Tomorrow Never Knows (Mono mix RM 11); Got To Get You Into My Life (First version) – Take 5; Got To Get You Into My Life (Second version) – Unnumbered mix - mono; Got To Get You Into My Life (Second version) – Take 8; Love You To (Take 1) - mono; Love You To (Unnumbered rehearsal) - mono; Love You To (Take 7); Paperback Writer (Takes 1 and 2) – Backing track – mono; Rain (Take 5 – Actual speed); Rain (Take 5 – Slowed down for master tape); Doctor Robert (Take 7); And Your Bird Can Sing (First version) – Take 2; And Your Bird Can Sing (First version) – Take 2 (giggling). CD 3: Sessions Two - And Your Bird Can Sing (Second version) – Take 5; Taxman (Take 11); I’m Only Sleeping (Rehearsal fragment) - mono; I’m Only Sleeping (Take 2) - mono; I’m Only Sleeping (Take 5) - mono; I’m Only Sleeping (Mono mix RM1); Eleanor Rigby (Speech before Take 2) Eleanor Rigby (Take 2); For No One (Take 10) – Backing track; Yellow Submarine (Songwriting work tape – Part 1) - mono; Yellow Submarine (Songwriting work tape – Part 2) – mono; Yellow Submarine (Take 4 before sound effects); Yellow Submarine (Highlighted sound effects); I Want To Tell You (Speech and Take 4); Here, There And Everywhere (Take 6); She Said She Said (John’s demo) - mono; She Said She Said (Take 15) – Backing track rehearsal. CD 4: Revolver (Original mono master) - Tracklist same as above. CD5: Revolver EP - Paperback Writer (New stereo mix); Rain (New stereo mix); Paperback Writer (Original mono mix remastered); Rain (Original mono mix remastered).

Take Five with Bob Holz

by AAJ Staff
November 28, 2022

Meet Bob Holz Bob studied at Berklee College of Music with Gary Chaffee andJoe Hunt. He went on to study privately with Billy Cobham. Bob has worked with John McLaughlin, Larry Coryell, Ralphe Armstrong, Mike Stern, Randy Brecker, Stanley Clarke, Darryl Jones, Jean-Luc Ponty, Dean Brown, Alex Acuna, Airto Moreira, Ric Fierabracci, Brandon Fields, Chet Catallo, ...