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
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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
Jon Lord spent Wednesday recording a new track Out of My Mind in London with Ian Gillan, Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi and Iron Maiden's Nicko McBrain. The track is intended for a charity single to raise money for a new music school in Armenia. Jason Newstedt will record bass tracks for the song. Gillan and … Continue reading Jon Lord records new track with Gillan, Iommi and McBrain
Jon Lord has revisited his Sarabande suite from 1975 and plans to perform it live this fall. Sarabande is one of Jon Lord's most successful and most loved orchestral works. - In Budapest on the 18th of this month, I am playing the Sarabande suite for the first time ever live. That is, in its … Continue reading Jon Lord to perform entire Sarabande suite
EMI Music will be releasing an anniversary edition of the Deepest Purple compilation in late October. The album originally went straight to #1 in the UK when it was first released in 1980. The anniversary release will include a bonus DVD featuring a range of video clips presented by Jon Lord. This is a provisional … Continue reading Jon Lord to host new Deep Purple DVD
Jon Lord's new official webshop now offers exclusive t-shirts. Also in stock are a selection of Jon Lord's solo CDs and DVDs. . . Go straight to Jon Lord's official webshop: JonLordShop.org
These two video gems show Jon Lord rehearsing Gigue and Bouree with only a rhythm section. Jon Lord will usually begin new rehearsals with only the band present and later add the orchestra. This is a glimpse into that process. The clips are from Trondheim, May 22 and shows Martin Axenrot on drums, Martin Mendez … Continue reading The Gigue/Bouree band rehearsal
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