

Jimmy Knepper, trombone Doug Watkins, bass Dannie Richmond, drums Performers: Charles Mingus, piano and vocals Rahsaan Roland Kirk, tenor saxophone Booker Ervin, tenor saxophone Title: Concerto for Two Pianists and Five Tape Recorders (1960) Performers: John Cale, violas Legs Larry Smith, vocal Title: Legs Larry at Television Centre (1972) Recording Title: The Beatles (White Album) Recording Title: Talk Normal: The Laurie Anderson Anthology Performers: Laurie Anderson – vocals, harmonizer, electric violin Expect to hear recordings from Laurie Anderson, John Cale, Charles Mingus and the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, among others. The music comes from all corners of our little musical niche, and we hope they enhance your New Year’s Eve party mood. This is our last program for 2018, and we thought it would be in the spirit of the end-of-year holidays to play some tracks where the composers and musicians involved were not taking themselves too seriously, or expressing themselves in a playful way. On this Music From Other Minds, Mark Abramson has some fun with music. Recording Title: Shostakovich: The Jazz Album Performers: Concertgebouw Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly conducting Recording Title: Shostakovich Symphony no. Performers: Maki Namekawa & Dennis Russell Davies

Recording Title: Shostakovich: Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Performers: Galina Vishnevskaya and Nicolai Gedda with the London Philharmonic Orchestra, Mstislav Rostropovich conducting. Title: Bedroom Scene from Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk Shostakovich had a hard time painting inside these lines and found himself in trouble more than a few times. Socialist Realism was the exclusive form of approved art in the Soviet Union from its development in the 1920s to its eventual decline from official status beginning in the late 60s. Socialist Realism is characterized by the glorified depiction of communist values, such as the emancipation of the proletariat by means of realistic imagery. In the 1930s, the official Soviet party’s approved musical style was Socialist Realism, a genre of idealized, realistic art that was developed in the Soviet Union and was imposed as the official style in that country between 19. We expect to have a new single and the second album out threw Golden Robot Records in the 2022.On this Music From Other Minds, Randall Wong explores the music of Dmitri Shostakovich in anticipation of our upcoming concert of his arrangements for two pianos. With ‘Rock ‘N Roll Aint Easy’ being such a worldwide success, Dizzy and his band are keen to follow it up in 2020 with work already begun on this next solo project currently in Los Angeles.

In between world tours with Guns N’ Roses to sell-out crowds, and Dizzy’s side project Hookers and Blow, he has found time to enter the studio several times in the US to work on his follow-up LP. “Never stop learning and exploring, but don’t forget what you do best. With his first solo album released through Golden Robot Records in 2018, Dizzy Reed remains in the rock industry’s ‘sharky’ waters, continuously growing as an individual and flourishing as an artist. He has also toured with the Psychedelic Furs and has toured, recorded and written with supergroup The Dead Daisies. In 2012, Dizzy was inducted into the Rock n’ Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Guns n’ Roses.

Making the transition from club rocker to a member of the biggest stadium band in the world required the majesty of the Hammond B-3, which Dizzy employed on the classic tracks “Dust n’ Bones”, “Yesterdays” “14 Years”, and “Don’t Damn Me”. It was as part of the club band The Wild in the late 1980s, while rehearsing and living in a shared Hollywood practice room, Dizzy befriended Axl Rose, and in 1990 he joined Guns n’ Roses on keys and backing vocals for the recording of Use Your Illusion I & II. There was an incredible amount of energy and it was magic.” There were thousands of bands from all over the world, trying to be the next big thing. By 1985, Dizzy had immersed himself in the insanity of the booming Los Angeles music scene. Listening to the keyboard sections on his father’s Booker T and the MGs, his passion was ignited and at age 12 he began touring with his own elementary school band. When in 1990 Guns N’ Roses matured beyond their aggressive hard rock sound, it was the addition of keyboardist Dizzy Reed and the epic tones of the Hammond B-3 that drove this stylistic evolution.Īfter more than 25 years as a powerhouse in Guns N’ Roses, Reed signed with Golden Robot Records, releasing his highly anticipated solo album “Rock ‘N Roll Ain’t Easy” in 2018.īorn in 1960s Hinsdale, Illinois and raised in Colorado, Dizzy Reed had a natural affinity for the keys as his grandmother taught him to play the organ on her electric Lowrey.
