What are your favourite tracks from Jon Lord? For a provisional Best Of album, we would like to know what you think is Jon Lord's best work on album. Please take a moment to give us your favourites via the link below (not in the comments on this page). The list includes all Jon Lord's … Continue reading Vote for your Jon Lord favourites
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Jon Lord live at The Congress Hall, Warsaw, Nov 10th, 2010. Review by Marcin Karski Jon Lord has taken the Polish capitol by storm and it was the best I've ever seen from him. The way he moved, conducted, played and sounded will remain vivid in my mind, hardly forgettable. I can only thank the … Continue reading Warsaw: Here be friends, here be a hero…
Doogie White will handle male vocals at Jon Lord's concert in Essen this Monday November 15. Doogie has previously sung with Jon Lord in Luxembourg and Plovdiv, Bulgaria. Here are two clips from Luxembourg 2010:
This rather excellent photo captures Jon Lord onstage in Sofia, Bulgaria on October 30. We thank you Fedia Trifonov for sending the photo. You can read his letter here: Dear Mr. Lord, First of all I’d like to express mine and my family and friends’ admiration from your personality as a human being, musician and … Continue reading Sofia says thank you
Listen to Planet Rock's brand new interview with Jon Lord from this week. To coincide with the release of the 35th anniversary edition of Come Taste The Band, Jon Lord talks about his time with Deep Purple Mk4 - and the reissue of the expanded Deepest Purple compilation album, both of which are released this … Continue reading Come Taste The Band was Deep Purple’s love child
Among his many upcoming projects, Jon Lord has been commissioned to compose a concerto for Hammond organ and orchestra and with special parts for tympani. The piece will be premiered with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchestra with Tom Vissgren on tympani in Oslo, Norway in the Spring of 2012. - It is basically a concerto for … Continue reading Jon Lord to compose concerto for Hammond and tympani
Jon Lord has donated the music of To Notice Such Things, which he wrote for Sir John Mortimer to a local stage production in Henley on Thames, England, who will perform Mortimer's A Voyage Around My Father next week. During their friendship, Jon Lord and Sir John Mortimer actually talked about writing their own musical … Continue reading Jon Lord donates music to Mortimer play
On October 24, Jon Lord's Concerto for Group and Orchestra will make its Prague premiere with Hungary's Györ Philharmonic Orchestra. The evening will offer concertgoers a chance to enjoy the many sides of Jon Lord's classical-rock fusion. But there are traps to be avoided, Jon Lord tells The Prague Post. "I don't like using the … Continue reading Jon Lord’s Prague Concerto premiere
