Jon Lord (Deep Purple) - Sarabande (1976)

Year: October 1976 (CD 1987)
Label: Line Records (Germany), LICD 9.00124 O
Style: Modern Classical, Progressive Rock
Country: Leicester, England (9 June 1941 - 16 July 2012)
Time: 50:06
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 265 Mb

Typically, when an artist branches out from their current band for a solo outing, it is to “prove” something. Wishing to be seen as more than just “one of the guys in the band,” they want to take an excursion into the studio, hoping to demonstrate to the loyal legion of fans that they have something different to offer. This is especially true when they are not the main songwriter in said group. Jon Lord, a founding member and former member of Deep Purple, successfully found a way of sounding relevant with Sarabande, his second solo outing, without losing the respect of Purple’s fan base.
Anyone expecting a Deep Purple-sounding album will be disappointed. In this case, that may be a good thing. If you have an appreciation for majestic, brain-jarring compositions of pure musicianship, Sarabande may be the album for you. With the Hungarian Philharmonic as his accompaniment, in addition to an array of other studio musicians, including a pre-Police guitarist Andy Summers, Lord offers up eight songs of pure musical, majestic bliss. To some, it may appear Lord is just being pretentious; but to those with open ears, he is merely demonstrating that his talents reach beyond his years with Deep Purple.
In a way, Sarabande almost resembles the soundtrack, to one of Hollywood’s old-time classics, ala Lawrence of Arabia or Ben-Hur. That’s what I love about it. It is truly grand on all levels. With the musicianship and the swooping, epic-like execution of each track, there is not a moment on this mesmerizing album where the listener will fail to be impressed. Combining classical music with jazz, blues, and straight forward rock, it is an ambitious piece of work that, for the most part, succeeds, thanks to the genius of Lord’s capabilities.
(full version: https://vintagerock.com/jon-lord-sarabande/)

Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
A=Analog. D=digital. The first letter stands for how the music was recorded. The second letter for how it was mixed. The third letter stands for the format (all CD's will have D as the last letter).

01. Fantasia (03:32)
02. Sarabande (07:25)
03. Aria (03:48)
04. Gigue (11:10)
05. Bouree (11:07)
06. Pavane (07:45)
07. Caprice (03:13)
08. Finale (02:04)

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Jon Lord (Deep Purple) - Gemini Suite (1971)

Year: October 1971 (CD 1987)
Label: Line Records (Germany), LICD 9.00122 O
Style: Modern Classical, Progressive Rock
Country: Leicester, England (9 June 1941 - 16 July 2012)
Time: 47:24
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 208 Mb

After the 1969 classical / rock fusion Concerto for Group and Orchestra, Jon Lord was commissioned to write a follow-up. This was Gemini Suite, five long movements inspired by the members of Deep Purple, and performed live in September 1970 at the Royal Festival Hall with The Light Music Society Orchestra (the album of the concert was issued in 1993 as Gemini Suite Live). Jon Lord then recorded it in the studio as his first solo project in 1971, with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Malcolm Arnold and soloists drawn from the rock world. Gemini Suite was an important step for Lord and led to albums such as Windows (1974) and Sarabande (1976).
The album was originally released in Europe and America in 1971 with different cover artwork. The 1973 US reissue featured a third version of the cover artwork. In 1983 the album was re-released on LP in Germany and four years later also for the first time on CD.
(en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gemini_Suite)

Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
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01. Guitar (09:00)
02. Piano (08:07)
03. Drums (07:22)
04. Vocals (05:51)
05. Bass-Guitar (05:04)
06. Organ (12:00)

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Jade Warrior - Jade Warrior (1971)

Year: 1971 (CD 1988)
Label: Line Records (Germany), LICD 9.00548 O
Style: Progressive Rock, Rock
Country: 1970–2011 or 2014; United Kingdom
Time: 44:13
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 161 Mb

The core membership of Jade Warrior is/was Jon Field (flute etc.) and Tony Duhig (guitar). During their youths, Jon and Tony independently developed an interest in Jazz, African music, and Latin American music. They met in the early 1960s while driving forklift trucks in a factory, and soon learned that they shared musical interests and intentions. At the time, they were just beginning to play instruments themselves (Jon a set of congas, and Tony a cheap guitar which he tuned quite unconventionally to open C).
Each of them bought a quarter-track tape recorder, capable of sound-on-sound "pingponging". They began composing their own music, and experimenting with building up multi-layered overdubbed amalgams of the sorts of music which moved them... all done with practically no money. Jon has described this process as "our training... trying to build a cathedral with the sort of things you'd find in your back yard." This complex layered and overdubbed sound would be a hallmark of Jade Warrior's music throughout their entire career to date.
They spent the next years going to clubs, listening to jazz and blues, and in 1965 formed a rhythm & blues band called "Second Thoughts" headed up by lead singer Patrick Lyons. Second Thoughts released one four-song EP. During the same period, Tom Newman (later the engineer for Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells), Alan James, Pete Cook and Chris Jackson had formed the first incarnation of the "Tomcats" (one of several bands known to have used this name).
In 1965, both of these two bands split up. Patrick Lyons departed, joining up with Alex Spyropoulos in a duo named "Nirvana" which subsequently released an on-the-charts single "Rainbow Chaser" and a total of five LPs (with Jade Warrior members performing on one of them: 1971's Local Anaesthetic).
The Tomcats re-formed with a new line-up: Tom Newman, Alan James, Chris Jackson, Jon Field and Tony Duhig. The band spent the best part of 1965 and 1966 in Spain, acting as a spearhead for British pop music in that country. They released four EPs which did very well on the Spanish charts. The four EPs by The Tomcats were collected onto a single LP by Acme Records, and a pressing of The Second Thoughts' four-song EP was included.
After returning to England in 1966, the Tomcats were re-named "July", playing psychedelic-pop/rock written by Tom Newman and Pete Cook. July issued one album, which has been released in three different versions. The original version was July. A later release Second of July contains alternate versions and additional outtakes, and a third release Dandelion Seeds is a re-release of July plus the outtakes. July disbanded in 1968. Tony Duhig auditioned successfully for a role in a band called Unit Four Plus Two (a group which had released a hit song "Concrete and Clay" a few years earlier but had since lost all of its original members save the lead singer). Other recent additions to Unit Four Plus Two were bass guitarist and vocalist Glyn Havard, and drummer Allan Price. This line-up of Unit Four Plus Two did a brief club tour in the U.K., and then broke up.
Musical ideas continued to develop and they hooked up with Glyn again to work them in to songs. The first piece they worked on became 'The Traveller' (released on the first Vertigo album). They called the band Jade Warrior after one of the dance dramas they had composed for a London drama school.
(jadewarrior.com)

01. The Traveller (02:40)
02. A Prenormal Day At Brighton (02:45)
03. Masai Morning (Including Casting Of The Bones, The Hunt, A Ritual Of Kings) (06:44)
04. Windweaver (03:43)
05. Dragonfly Day (Including Metamorphosis, Dance Of The Sun Spirit, Death) (07:45)
06. Petunia (04:46)
07. Telephone Girl (04:54)
08. Psychiatric Sergeant (03:08)
09. Slow Ride (02:36)
10. Sundial Song (05:08)

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Harvey Mandel - Feel The Sound (1974)

Year: 1974 (CD 1989)
Label: Line Records (West Germany), JACD 9.00799 O
Style: Blues Rock, Progressive Rock, Jazz-Rock
Country: Detroit, Michigan, U.S. (March 11, 1945)
Time: 29:28
Format: Flac Tracks 16/44,1 kHz
Size: 173 Mb

This album reminds me very much of the Jeff Beck release "Rough and Ready". The reason is the vocalist sounds very much like Beck's vocalist Bobby Tench from that album. And that is a compliment to all parties involved. Love the Beck album and I love this one by Harvey. Mr. Mandel is criminally unknown. Easily makes my top ten favorite guitarist list. This is a classic 70's release. Harvey is tapping his ass off here and it's obvious Eddie Van Halen was listening. He used to watch Harvey live at the Whiskey in L.A. In the early 70's. Be nice if he would ever mention Harvey as a huge influence. What a douche. Anyway, if you love blues/rock guitar with jazz chops make a point to hunt this down. You will not be disappointed. Thank you Harvey.
(amazon.co.uk/Feel-Sound-Harvey-Mandel/dp/B01G93QDI4)

Album recorded and mixed in the analog domain - AAD. That is, a minimum of digital processing.
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01. Got To Be Bad (03:53)
02. Sore Throat (02:35)
03. Just Wanna Be There (04:28)
04. Candles By The Bedside (04:07)
05. Feel The Sound (06:02)
06. I Got Your Slot (02:53)
07. Rankachank Blues (02:50)
08. Forever And Forever (02:36)

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