The final Deep Purple Mark 3 concert - featuring Jon Lord, Ritchie Blackmore, David Coverdale, Ian Paice and Glenn Hughes - has been remixed and reissued. Featuring a blistering near two-hour set, the show includes: 1: Burn, Stormbringer, The Gypsy, Lady Double Dealer, Mistreated, Smoke On The Water, You Fool No One, 2: Space Truckin', … Continue reading Listen to Deep Purple in Paris 1975
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Recollecting an interview Jon did with Exclusive Magazine in 2010 for the release of his To Notice Such Things album. It was a commission from Shipley Arts Festival in the South of England. It's a six different pieces, each one based on a moment or time in Jon's friend John Mortimer's life. Lingering impressions In … Continue reading A man who used to notice such things
Watch this freshly released promo clip for the Mediabook edition of Concerto for Group and Orchestra: Mediabook edition includes Concerto CD + documentary DVD + 80-page book Pre-order now
"A valedictory for a man and his stubborn creative vision. Lord lived like he plays the B3 here, with a ferocious creativity. That same dogged sense of determination pushed him to continue working on this piece until he got it just right. This prog rock-meets-classical piece ends up sounding brand new, even for long-time Purple … Continue reading Review: You never heard it quite like this
The eagerly awaited expanded edition of Jon's Concerto for Group and Orchestra will be released on December 7, 2012. Pre-order your copy now. Officially known as the Mediabook Edition, it comes with the standard CD of the Concerto plus a 72-page book and a documentary DVD. Along with unseen photographs from the recording sessions, the … Continue reading Enhanced Concerto edition announced
Boom of the Tingling Strings is the latest of Jon's orchestral works to have undergone Paul Mann's watchful revisions and is now available in our Works section complete with Jon's and Paul's notes on the composition. The work is now also available as a 2-piano score for the first time, to make it more accessible … Continue reading Works: Boom of the Tingling Strings
The first instalment of scores from Jon's 2004 album Beyond The Notes is now ready. These arrangements were used in the studio, and Jon often only wrote out in detail the parts for the other players. Now for the first time, everything has been faithfully transcribed by Paul Mann so that the material might be performed … Continue reading Works: Jon’s Purple departure scored
The Highway Star Deep Purple website has published a highly recommended in-depth interview with Jon's Concerto for Group and Orchestra conductor Paul Mann. The interview goes through many aspects of the new Concerto; from the choice of musicians, Jon's illness, possible future recordings of Jon's music to the pros of finally recording the Concerto in … Continue reading Interview: Concerto talk with Paul Mann
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