David Gilmour

Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII

By Pink Floyd

Label: Columbia Records
Released: 2025
Track listing: CD 1 - Pompeii Intro; Echoes Part 1; Careful with That Axe, Eugene; A Saucerful of Secrets; One of These Days; Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun; Mademoiselle Nobs; Echoes Part 2. CD 2 - Careful with That Axe, Eugene; A Saucerful of Secrets.

The Unlikely Story of Cannonball Adderley's Rise to the Top

by Alan Bryson
August 13, 2025

For me, the most gripping music stories are the tales of “overnight sensations." In the jazz sphere, we have our share. There is the story of an eighteen-year-old Billie Holiday, discovered by producer John Hammond while she was a hostess in a Harlem club. There is the tale of a seventeen-year-old Ella Fitzgerald, whose triumphant debut ...

Pink Floyd: Pink Floyd At Pompeii MCMLXXII

by Doug Collette
July 17, 2025

Listening to any Pink Floyd these days, now over fifty years since the release of Dark Side of the Moon (Capitol, 1972) compels all manner of 'What if?...' hypotheses. And hearing At Pompeii MCMLXII, work preserved for posterity during the gestation of the aforementioned breakthrough album, evokes particularly thought-provoking notions about the evolution of this quartet ...

The Dark Side of the Moon: 50th Anniversary Remaster (CD)

By Pink Floyd

Label: Pink Floyd Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Speak to Me; Breathe (In The Air); On the Run; Time; The Great Gig in the Sky; Money; Us and Them; Any Colour You Like; Brain Damage; Eclipse.

Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac: A Green Sun Sets On The Blue Horizon

by Scott Gudell
July 17, 2021

There are times when the stars align in a dramatic and symbiotic way. Although Mick Fleetwood had talked about a tribute concert to honor friend and British blues slide guitar giant Peter Green for years, Fleetwood was tenacious and succeeded in bringing together an all-star roster of close to 20 musicians on February 25, 2020, days ...

Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate The Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac

by Doug Collette
May 22, 2021

Mick Fleetwood & Friends Celebrate The Music of Peter Green and the Early Years of Fleetwood Mac BMG 2021 Enclosed in a hardbound book format similar to Then Play On -The Celebration Edition (BMG, 2020), this homage to the late Peter Green, British guitarist and co-founder of Fleetwood Mac group, is ...

Woodstock��Back to the Garden: 50th Anniversary Experience

by John Kelman
August 10, 2019

First things first. For all but the most committed of fans, knowledge of what transpired, how it transpired and when it transpired at the now-legendary 1969 Woodstock Music & Arts Fair has, despite a variety of initial, 25th and 40th Anniversary audio and video releases, been severely limited. As engaging, entertaining and well-constructed as these various ...

Soft Machine: Hidden Details

by Chris M. Slawecki
July 2, 2019

Hidden Details celebrates the fiftieth anniversary of Soft Machine's 1968 eponymous debut, a seismic event in the British psychedelic, jazz and rock music landscapes that still reverbates as the Canterbury scene/sound. This anniversary studio celebration also brought about Soft Machine's first tour of North America since 1974, with several 2018 shows featuring Gary Husband as guest ...

Big Bands, Orchestras and Soft Machines

by Chris M. Slawecki
June 18, 2019

Randy Brecker & NDR Bigband Rocks Piloo Records & Productions LLC 2019 The easiest answer isn't always the best answer, but sometimes it is. So it's both easy and proper to point out that trumpet and flugelhorn master, composer, and bandleader Randy Brecker was kind enough ...