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Van Morrison: Keep Me Singing

Read "Keep Me Singing" reviewed by C. Michael Bailey

by C. Michael Bailey
October 8, 2016

Van Morrison remains a beautifully mercurial creative force. Thirty-six discreet recordings into a 52-year career, Morrison has only Ray Charles and Willie Nelson, as poly-genre conquering peers, each of whose reach has proven to be expansive and penetrating. This is a rarified trio, to be sure, a very selective club that needs be no larger. Morrison's ...

Article: Extended Analysis

Van Morrison: It's Too Late to Stop Now - Volumes II, III, IV & DVD

by Doug Collette
September 3, 2016

The announcement of the archiving of Van Morrison's considerably lengthy discography through Legacy Music no doubt generated cautious optimism among his fans and musiclovers in general. Previous reissue initiatives consisted of straight remasterings with minimal bonus additions in any form, while the retrospective of thirty unreleased recordings called The Philosopher's Stone (Polydor, 1998) seemed like a ...

Article: Rediscovery

Mark Isham: Blue Sun

by John Kelman
August 24, 2016

Mark IshamBlue SunColumbia Records1995 Better-known, perhaps, for his work in the film arena as scorer for movies including 1986's The Hitcher, the 1992 reboot of Of Mice and Men and 1998's Blade, Mark Isham has, nevertheless, demonstrated his instrumental prowess as a trumpeter on albums including pianist Art Lande's Rubisa Patrol ...

Article: Live Review

Montreux Jazz Festival 2016

by Ian Patterson
July 20, 2016

Montreux Jazz Festival 2016 Various Venues Montreux, Switzerland July 9-12, 2016 No matter at what point, or for how long you dipped into the Montreux Jazz Festival during the seventeen days of its 50th edition, the sense of history was palpable. Charles Lloyd was present, just as he was ...

Article: Bailey's Bundles

Van Morrison: …It's Too Late to Stop Now…, Volumes I-IV

by C. Michael Bailey
July 2, 2016

Genius, Innovation, that “Thing..." oh, and Live Recording... Early in this new century, All About Jazz published my list of the ten best live rock recordings with a second installment addressing “the best of the rest." Ten years of praise and ridicule have led me to accept how naive I was to believe that ...

Article: Live Review

Gregory Porter At The Ulster Hall, Belfast

by Ian Patterson
April 6, 2016

Gregory Porter Ulster Hall Belfast, N. Ireland March 31, 2016Though Gregory Porter has played Ireland several times, it's unlikely that any of the previous venues to welcome the Californian singer-songwriter have quite the history--or indeed the character--of Belfast's Ulster Hall. In its one hundred-and-fifty-year history this handsome Victorian music hall has ...

Article: Film Review

Van Morrison: Another Gloriuos Decade - 1977-1987

by Vic Albani
March 1, 2016

Van MorrisonAnother Glorious Decade (Under Review 1977-1987) [DVD] Sexy Intellectual* * * * Quando ci sono di mezzo i santi vi è davvero poco da dire. Questo documentario (il seguito della puntata che analizzava il decennio 1964-1974) è dedicato a un periodo della vita artistica di Van Morrison certamente sottovalutato ...

Article: Year in Review

Nenad Georgievski's Best of 2015

by Nenad Georgievski
January 5, 2016

2015 was not an easy year. I became a dad for the third time while I was working on a Film festival for music documentaries. The festival itself was an uphill battle, but I managed to get it organized with astounding success. In the meantime I was writing constantly or was listening to music, as if ...

Album

The Essential Van Morrison

By Van Morrison

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2015
Track listing: Gloria (w. Them); Here Comes The Night (w. Them); Spanish Rose; Brown Eyed Girl; Astral Weeks; The Way Young Lovers Do; Moondance; Crazy Love; And It Stoned Me; Into The Mystic; Domino; Wild Night; Tupelo Honey; Jackie Wilson Said (I'm in Heaven When You Smile; Warm Love; Fair Play; Caravan; Hungry For Your Love; Cleaning Windows (Live); Bright Side Of The Road; And The Healing Has Begun; Tore Down A La Rimbaud; Someone Like You; Irish Heartbeat (w. The Chieftains); Whenever God Shines His Light (w. Cliff Richard); Have I Told You Lately; Real Real Gone; Enlightenment; Why Must I Always Explain?; Days Like This; That s Life; Rough God Goes Riding; Precious Time; Once In A Blue Moon; Magic Time; Playhouse; Sweet Thing (Live).

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Duets: Reworking The Catalogue

By Van Morrison

Label: Sony Music
Released: 2015
Track listing: Some Peace Of Mind; If I Ever Needed Someone; Higher Than The World; Wild Honey; Whatever Happened To Pj Proby; Carrying A Torch; The Eternal Kansas City; Streets Of Arklow; These Are The Days; Get On With The Show; Rough God Goes Riding; Fire In The Belly; Born To Sing; Irish Heartbeat; Real Real Gone; How Can A Poor Boy?;