Music Web International reviews Jon Lord's new album To Notice Such Things. 'To Notice Such Things is clearly a very personal and affecting portrait of Lord’s friendship with John Mortimer,' opens the review which goes on to applaud the music with descriptive adjectives such as 'warm vernal freshness' ... 'invoking and reviving' ... 'brusquely joyous … Continue reading Review: ‘Quite an achievement’
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Listen to 3 tracks from To Notice Such Things: 1. As I Walked Out One Evening 2. Evening Song 3. Turville Heath Read the press release. Find out more about To Notice Such Things.
Tonight, Friday March 5, Jon Lord will appear in the BBC's 90 minute rock documentary, Heavy Metal Britannia. The documentary traces the origins and development of British heavy metal from its humble beginnings in the industrialised Midlands to its proud international triumph. Jon Lord was interviewed for the film last October and, according to the … Continue reading Jon Lord on BBC4 rock documentary
Jon Lord and singer Steve Balsamo have recorded demos for a future album provisionally titled Songbook. The duo went into Metropolis Studios in London last Friday to record piano and vocal demo versions of two new songs; All Those Years Ago and After A While. Steve Balsamo writes on his forum: 'Jon told me that … Continue reading Jon Lord in the studio with Steve Balsamo
Read the story behind Jon Lord's upcoming new album, To Notice Such Things, out on March 29, 2010. The album is dedicated to the memory of his late friend Sir John Mortimer and contains a six piece suite for solo flute, piano and string orchestra as well as three other compositions for the same forces. … Continue reading Interview: To Notice Such Music
Jon Lord takes us through To Notice Such Things, track by track. - The first movement is based on the opening music of the show that we used to do, and the first piece he used to read was a poem by W.H. Auden. I suppose it’s about the triumph of time. It starts out … Continue reading To Notice Such Things, track-by-track
Jon Lord will release his next album, To Notice Such Things, on March 29, 2010 through Avie Records. Titled after the main work - a six movement suite for solo flute, piano and string orchestra - the album was inspired by, and is dedicated to the memory of Jon's dear friend Sir John Mortimer, the … Continue reading Jon Lord: new album in memory of Sir John Mortimer
Jon Lord's Windows album will be reissued on Purple Records in November 2009, reports the DPAS website. The new reissue has been remastered to celebrate the 35th anniversary of the concert and comes initially as a limited edition digipak with 12 page booklet. It is a single CD. The album was recorded live in Munich … Continue reading Windows reissued in November
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