Elvis Costello said, “I’m not interested in extracting some dark secret. I’d rather hear about a bright secret, a deep love or a curiosity that might be otherwise obscured by fame. Spectacle With was a wonderful opportunity to talk in complete thoughts about music, movies, art or even vaudeville, then frame it with unique and illustrative performances.”
somehow the sounds he and the instrument made seemed to emerge from the dawn of time before stepping into the complexities, and simplicities, of contemporary music.
Whatever his secret, Cale’s music has proved remarkably durable and influential.
PLAYING FOR BILL EVANS: John Horler, Alec Dankworth, Ronnie Jones Jazz pianist still has today´s jazz men enthralled. says Norman Warwick It was in March of last year that we ran a feature on Jazz pianist Bill Evans, and now a year later a special concert is to take place at the Progress Theatre Reading […]
As 2021 came to a close (phew!), the music press advised us who might be in the vanguard of leading new artists now in 2022. American Songwriter kept its eyes and ears open for new standout acts pm the way up and named 12 artists they believe are ´destined for stardom´ . Today we bring you five acts they chose that we think most fit our play lists here at Sidetracks & Detours.
I didn’t think I was a performer. I was almost certain that I was a songwriter!
this aesthetic exploration is initially without the intention of showing the results to anyone. And so I try to remain open and not censor myself at all. So it’s all the easier for me to keep discovering the world with a camera.
Jeff Ballard , jazz man, is a drummer, bandleader, educator, and intrepid spirit and here talks of the before and after of the music he loves.
Haydn´s work serves as a meditation on the gravity of tragedy, as well as on the possibilities of hope and redemption. It is music of great weight as well as great transparency, coupling profound directness of affect with ennobling humility´.
He wrote what was, before its time, classic Americana, but he wrote country and r &b too, and just in case you don´t know it yet he not only wrote Wild Thing for Jim Hendrix, and for The Troggs, but also wrote Angel of the Morning, a round the world radio hit for the likes of Juice Newton. Son Of A Rotten Gambler which artists of the calibre of Anne Murray recorded.
