This is not a music site for rock’n’roll, there are plenty of those, but every now and then a performance or an interesting video clip deserves its place. This goes for this excellent performance from 1991 by the Firebirds, a group hailing from Bristol (it was released as a video in 1992). The concert took […]
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‘Rock’n’roll’ – ‘rockabilly’ – ‘rhythm’n’blues’ : a rant about musical terminology
In 1976 when I got into the music – a tender 12 year-old – it was ‘rock’n’roll’. As a late 70s ted in the music’s revival in Britain I was still into ‘rock’n’roll’, at the dawn of the 1980s when I got my first drape jacket I continued to love ‘rock’n’roll’, and now, approaching my […]
1994 ‘Tear it Up! The Rockabilly Documentary’
As short as it is, this short 18-minute documentary from 1994 by Greg Wolske of Columbus (Ohio), is the best introduction to rockabilly music around. Rather than the planned film, this is a taster of a more ambitious project which has not yet – it would seem – been completed. This taster contains some testimonies […]
The rockin’ sax
Illinois Jacquet, Red Prysock, Big Jay McNeely one-note solos, altissimo squeals 1942 ‘flying home’ featuring Illinois Jacquet in Lionel Hampton’s band. audiences went wild for the aggressive, exciting, primal, frenzied, raw, screeching, in contrast to smooth, fluid, dense, cerebral improvisations of be-boppers such as Charlie Parker. sax battles at the Jazz at the Philharmonic
1959 ‘Six O’Clock Rock’ Aussie rock’n’roll tv show
Lightning Recorders studio, Berlin – another perfect recreated 50s recording studio
You can have a look at Sugar Ray’s recreated 50s recording studio in England, but another perfectly recreated 1950s recording studio that has been set up recently is the Lightning Recorders studio in Berlin which is associated with Randy Richter, the doyen of authentic rockabilly and rock’n’roll guitar style. Here, Randy gives us a tour […]
