Jon has been awarded this year's Tommy Vance Inspiration Award by Classic Rock Magazine. Ian Paice's wife Jacky and Jon's daughters Amy, Sara who accepted the award last night at the eighth annual Orange Amplification Classic Rock Roll of Honour at London's Roundhouse. Jon's daughters and Jacky Paice (sister of Jon's wife Vicky) is seen here with Bruce Dickinson, … Continue reading Jon wins Tommy Vance Inspiration Award
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 Jon Lord Webshop Christmas Sale is on now. We've reduced the prices on the excellent Bucharest 2009 CD+DVD, the Jon Lord Blues Project album along with two of Jon's newest orchestral masterpieces, To Notice Such Things and Durham Concerto. And more. The expanded edition of Jon's new studio recording of Concerto for Group and … Continue reading Christmas Sale is on
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
On December 15 the Wiesbadener Orchesterverein will perform the title track of Jon's Sarabande album as part of their Pop Meets Klassik concert. For a couple of years, the orchestra had been planning to perform Jon's Concerto for Group and Orchestra with him, when his illness last year put a stop to everything. The orchestra has … Continue reading Sarabande live in Germany
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
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