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A Precise, but Mirthless, Tribute to ‘Astral Weeks’
Van Morrison was shouting his way through “A Fool for You” — “Ray Charles!” he yelled after the song’s opening line — when the cord fell out of his microphone, leaving the Irish soul man singing unaided for a brief spell before musing, “We’ll have to do that again, right?” But even when the mic was ...
Van Morrison: Astral Weeks Live At The Hollywood Bowl
by Mike Perciaccante
Forty years after the release of his seminal work, Astral Weeks (Warner Brothers, 1968), Van Morrison decided that the time was right to play the entire album live. To recreate the record acknowledged by many critics as one of the best of all time, Morrison enlisted guitarist Jay Berliner (who played on the original album), many ...
Ask Van Morrison
10 QUESTIONS With his signature growl and unique blend of blues, jazz and celtic folk, Van Morrison is consistently ranked as one of the most iconic and influential rock artists of all time. Writer of such classic songs as “Gloria", “Moondance" and “Brown Eyed Girl", his 1968 masterwork, Astral Weeks, is listed by almost ...
Blue Note at 70
by Joel Roberts
No label in jazz can match the history and legacy of Blue Note Records. Since its founding in New York in 1939 by German emigre Alfred Lion, Blue Note has been associated with an amazing assortment of jazz luminaries including Horace Silver, Art Blakey, Jimmy Smith, Lee Morgan, Freddie Hubbard, Joe Henderson, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, ...
Van Morrison on Bringing 'Astral Weeks' Shows to NYC
Van Morrison said that his Hollywood Bowl shows in November would be the only time he would perform his classic 1968 album Astral Weeks live. But that was before the two performances, which he says in an exclusive Times interview, “was more than I could have hoped for." The whole thing just worked, he told The ...
Candy Dulfer: Prodigy Turned Pro
by Mikayla Gilbreath
It's an age-old question--What's the secret of success? For Candy Dulfer, arguably the most commercially successful female saxophonist ever, the answer seems to include first-rate musicianship combined with a healthy dose of stage presence. To those attending their first Candy Dulfer concert, she must seem somewhat of an enigma. When she first takes the stage, tall, ...
Van Morrison at the Hollywood Bowl
For anyone who wasn't at the Hollywood Bowl on Friday night, there'd be little chance of explaining how Van Morrison's repetition of one seemingly innocuous sentence -- “This is a train" -- could turn into a deeply spiritual incantation. But transcendence is what Morrison has been after with his music from the beginning, and it's what ...
Van Morrison: Remasters Redux
by Doug Collette
Inasmuch as the six titles range from the sublime to the pedestrian, the latest batch of Van Morrison remasters constitutes a microcosm of The Belfast Cowboy's entire discography. Because Morrison is such an uncommonly gifted artist, it's possible to excuse the oversights in the overall archiving process, including lack of details in the remastering preparation and ...
Van Morrison Discusses the 'Poetry and Mythical Musings' of a Classic
Van Morrison discusses Astral Weeks, which he'll perform at the Hollywood Bowl If necessity is the mother of invention, it might follow that desperation is the father of inspiration. That was certainly the case 40 years ago, when Belfast-bred blue-eyed soul singer Van Morrison found himself broke and stranded on the East Coast despite coming off ...
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