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Van Morrison was born in Belfast in 1945, the son of a shipyard worker who collected American blues and jazz records. Van grew up listening to the music of Muddy Waters, Mahalia Jackson, Lightnin' Hopkins and John Lee Hooker. Surrounded by every kind of musical influence - country, blues, jazz, and folk - from 13 he was playing guitar, sax and harmonica with a series of local Irish showbands, skiffle and rock'n'roll groups. By the time he rose to the fore of Britain’s nascent blues-rock scene as leader of Them, Morrison had already pulled years in the trenches, singing and playing with some of Belfast’s cagiest combos. His music has always incorporated the widely-varied influences he heard and absorbed since his childhood days on the streets of Belfast - long before the bands of his youth and his initial 1964 breakthrough with the band he formed, Them.

Album

The Healing Game (Deluxe Edition)

By Van Morrison

Label: Legacy Recordings
Released: 2019
Track listing: CD 1: Rough God Goes Riding; Fire in the Belly; This Weight; Waiting Game; Piper at the Gates of Dawn; Burning Ground; It Once Was My Life; Sometimes We Cry; If You Love Me; The Healing Game; Look What the Good People Done; At the End of the Day; The Healing Game; Full Force Gale '96; St. Dominic's Preview. CDisc 2: The Healing Game; Fire in the Belly; Didn't He Ramble; The Healing Game; Sometimes We Cry; Mule Skinner Blues; A Kiss to Build a Dream On ; Don't Look Back; The Healing Game; Boppin' the Blues; Matchbox; Sittin' on Top of the World; . My Angel; All By Myself; Mule Skinner Blues. CDisc 3: Rough God Goes Riding; Foreign Window; Tore Down A La Rimbaud; Vanlose Stairway/Trans-Euro Train; Fool For You; Sometimes We Cry; It Once Was My Life; I'm Not Feeling It Anymore; This Weight; Who Can I Turn To (When Nobody Needs Me); Fire in the Belly; Tupelo Honey/Why Must I Always Explain; The Healing Game; See Me Through/Soldier of Fortune/Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)/Burning Ground.

Article: Live Review

Falcarragh Winter Jazz Festival 2019

by Ian Patterson
December 28, 2019

Falcarragh Winter Jazz Festival Various venues Falcarragh, Ireland December 6-7, 2019 Two days, three venues and six gigs. Small but beautiful. After the success of its inaugural edition in 2018, Falcarragh Winter Jazz Festival returned to the west-Donegal town with almost exactly the same format, and bar one eleventh hour ...

Article: Year in Review

John Kelman's Best Releases of 2019

by John Kelman
December 20, 2019

Well, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome continues to be a challenge, as it has been since mid-2014. 2019 represents, in fact, the worst year when it comes to the actual number of articles written. Still, I've been finding an increasingly satisfying niche in the arena of in-depth, detailed and extensive/exhaustive (exhausting, for you as much as I!!) articles. ...

Article: Year in Review

C. Michael Bailey's Best Releases of 2019

by C. Michael Bailey
December 12, 2019

The number of critics writing for All About Jazz is such that there is little content overlap from one scrib to the next. This provides the reader a rich and compelling collection of opinion from which to derive guidance regarding a broad variety of music. Also contributing to All About Jazz as a resource are the ...

Article: Extended Analysis

The Later Years: 1987-2019

by John Kelman
December 8, 2019

On January 10, 1994, Pink Floyd announced its upcoming North American tour in support of what would be its second studio album following the 1984 departure of bassist and band co-founder Roger Waters, The Division Bell (Columbia/EMI), a little more than two months before its release on March 28 of the same year. The first of ...

Article: Album Review

Robbie Robertson: Sinematic

Read "Sinematic" reviewed by Doug Collette

by Doug Collette
October 19, 2019

Robbie Robertson's ongoing fascination with the dark(er) side of human nature, combined with his longstanding fascination with film, begs the question of why it took so long for him to fuse the two interests in a solo album. There are more than a few memorable moments scattered throughout approximately sixty minutes of music on Sinematic and ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Labor Day at Coney Island

by Mary Foster Conklin
October 7, 2019

The Labor Day weekend broadcast included new releases from vocalists Audrey Silver, Deb Bowman, Barb Jungr, Tracey Coryell, a single from pianist Lauren Lee, plus a collaboration of Jenny Scheinman and Allison Miller, with birthday shout outs to Dinah Washington, Alice Coltrane, Teri Thornton, Valerie Simpson and Charlie Parker, among others and a nod to the ...

Article: Album Review

Jazzmeia Horn: Love & Liberation

Read "Love & Liberation" reviewed by Ian Patterson

by Ian Patterson
September 13, 2019

It's a big step for any singer, the move from interpreter of jazz standards to songwriter. And when you've been Grammy-nominated for a debut album of covers, as Jazzmeia Horn was with A Social Call (Prestige, 2017), the temptation must be to carry on in the same vein. Horn, however, clearly has greater ambition, as the ...

Article: Radio & Podcasts

Birthday Shout-outs to Betty Carter and Stevie Wonder

by Mary Foster Conklin
June 28, 2019

A two hour broadcast with new releases from bassist Linda May Han Oh and vocalist Elizabeth Tomboulian, plus birthday shout outs to Betty Carter, Stevie Wonder, lyricist Betty Comden, flutist Jan Leder, pianist Brittany Anjou, saxophonists Virginia Mayhew and Grace Kelly and vocalist Miles Griffith, among others. Playlist Jan Leder “Bird of Beauty" from ...