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In that dressingroom, Jon immediately picked up on Steve’s guitar licks and replicated them and improvised over them on the Hammond – a deep chemistry the pair would develop over the years onstage.

Steve goes on to talk about Jon’s input on the recording of the Purpendicular album, performing Concerto for Group and Orchestra at London’s Royal Albert Hall – and on Jon meeting Steve’s youngest son and speaking to him in a Donald Duck voice.

- The patience he had. He could do so many things so well. We miss him.

Steve Morse plays guitar on the third movement of Jon’s Concerto, recorded in 2012. Available in the Jon Lord Webshop.

With thanks to Barley Arts Promotion.

A special lounge offered people the opportunity to remember and pay tribute to Jon and to Nobs, the man behind Montreux Jazz Festival and the Funky Claude in Deep Purple’s Smoke on the Water. Both gentlemen were patrons of Zermatt Unplugged.

Frida Lyngstad took the stage to speak about Jon. The two had been close friends for many years when Jon wrote The Sun Will Shine Again for her at a difficult time in her life.

Watch Frida’s tribute to Jon:

Frida Lyngstad’s Tribute To Jon Lord – Zermatt Unplugged 2013 from TheSunflowerJam.

Carry On… Jon is the title of a new instrumental piece written by Ritchie Blackmore in tribute to his former band mate for 25 years.

The Deep Purple-esque track will feature on Blackmore’s Night‘s upcoming album Dancer And The Moon to be released in June.

Ritchie Blackmore spoke about Jon last July:

- Jon was not only a great musician, he was my favorite dinner companion.

- We are all deeply saddened. We knew he was sick but the word was that he was recovering and doing much better. This news came as a complete shock.

- Without Jon there would be no Deep Purple. He lives on in our hearts and memories, said Ritchie Blackmore.

Writing new music
For a few years, Jon had talked about writing new music with  Blackmore.

- I’d love to write something for Ritchie Blackmore to play. It’s been discussed by us, and we both keep saying it. His acoustic style is astonishingly good, Jon said at a Q&A session in Lichfield in 2009.

Titled NOW What?!, it comes out at the end of this month.

The band received the message of Jon’s demise while gathered in Tennessee last July to record the album.

- We knew it was coming to a certain extent but it was still a terrible shock, Ian Gillan later told Classic Rock magazine.

- So there was a moment of silence and a few hushed words… we could feel Jon’s spirit there.

- Before long, everyone chipped in with a few choice anecdotes and the mood lightened up a little. Because Jon wouldn’t've wanted us to be morose. He would’ve wanted us to get on with it, Ian Gillan said.

Jon’s departure left an impression on the recording of album.

- There was a great deal of poignancy to a couple of the lyrics that just naturally came in at that point. A line in one of the new songs is: ‘Souls having touched are forever entwined.’ That’s in a track called Above and Beyond. It felt as if Jon was spiralling up into the music, explained Ian Gillan.

- He was a great source of inspiration at that particular moment. Once you’re finished with your body… well, I won’t get into all that, but I think the spirit becomes more evident, especially with those that you’ve embraced throughout your life.

In this Planet Rock interview from last July, a choked up Ian Gillan speaks about losing Jon and using his inspiration to write new lyrics:

NOW What?! is released on April 30.

Right now it is shaping up, and details are coming together.

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A message on alvinlee.com says:

“We have lost a wonderful much loved father and companion, the world has lost a truly great and gifted musician. – Jasmin, Evi and Suzanne”

JonLord.org sends condolences.

Jon and Alvin Lee were friends from way back, and Jon guested on a few of Alvin Lee’s records.

Two of these session were for Lee’s Detroit Diesel and Zoom albums in 1987 and 1992 respectively where Jon plays Hammond on a couple of songs.

Alvin Lee explained at the time how he got Jon, George Harrison and Clarence Clemons to help out on Zoom:

- Well, Jon Lord I’ve known since the 1960’s, he’s played on some of my albums and I’ve played on his. I’ve known George since 1973 when Mylon LeFevre and I were working on the On the Road to Freedom recording which for me was a positive step away from rock and roll. Ever since that time he likes to come over with a guitar in hand and a bottleneck, he plays a very good slide guitar by the way. George, Jon and I all live very close to each other in the part of England called the Thames Valley.

Indeed, Jon, Alvin Lee, Joe Brown and Mick Ralphs of Bad Company were all members of Harrison’s so-called Henley Music Mafia of local rock stars living in or around Henley-On-Thames just West of London.

Jamming with Harrison
In a 2009 interview, George Harrison’s widow Olivia revealed the existence of informal recordings of Harrison and friends jamming around his house. She was asked whether she listens to Harrison’s music a lot.

- I listen to a lot of really rough recordings, cassettes and demos. George seemed to have a tape recording going… The other night I listened to New Year’s Eve, it must have been ’87. There was Joe Brown, a great musician; and Dave Edmunds; Alvin Lee, who was a neighbour; Jon Lord from Deep Purple.

- We’re all just hanging out. And then we’re sitting around the piano, someone has a guitar. You can hear all the wives talking, the guys are playing and we’re all singing along… I’m like, ‘Wow, who had this tape going,’ you know? And George would always end up putting it in his pocket, throwing it in a drawer, so I listen to things like that.

Any thought of releasing them?

- No, not really, but you just sit and listen and it’s sort of like you’re there again.

Remember the good times.

Alvin Lee CDs with Jon Lord

Thanks to Spinner.com and AlvinLee.de

Priced at just £10 + postage, this comes with both the audio CD and the documentary DVD and a condensed edition of the previously available Mediabook.

Free T-shirt
While stocks last every order over £60 will receive a free tour T-shirt from Jon’s last yours – An Evening With Jon Lord.

More details at Jon’s Webshop.