The Jon Lord Collection is a new volume of vocal scores and piano arrangements of some of Jon Lord's most famous songs and instrumental pieces. Jon's genius for improvisation meant that his own performances were constantly evolving, and with most of these compositions he never got around to actually notating definitive versions of the scores. His long-time friend and musical collaborator Paul Mann has painstakingly combined all of Jon's extant manuscript material with new transcriptions from the original recordings to arrive at the first-ever authoritative published versions of eleven essential pieces.
Included are some of Jon's most celebrated solo songs, including those written in collaboration with Sam Brown (âWait a While,â âOne from the Meadow,â âThe Sun Will Shine Againâ), together with a more recent collaboration with Steve Balsamo (âAll Those Years Agoâ). The collection would not be complete without âPictured Within,â composed to lyrics by the composer himself, and made famous by the incomparable performances of Miller Anderson.
Completing the collection are instrumental pieces from the 2004 album Beyond the Notes, including Jon's meditation on his departure from Deep Purple âDe Profundis,â the Brubeck-inspired âCologne Again,â the gentle but subtly complex âMiles Away,â (which was to form the basis of the slow movement of his piano concerto Boom of the Tingling Strings) and the wildly virtuosic âTelemann Experimentâ which, in typical Jon style, combines elements of rock and blues with the music borrowed from a suite by an early 18th century German Baroque composer.
Jon Lord's genre-defying music is presented here for the first time in a form which makes it readily accessible to musicians and music-lovers alike.
Song List:
All Those Years Ago
Cologne Again
De Profundis
Evening Song
Miles Away
One From The Meadow
Pictured Within
A Smile When I Shook His Hand
The Sun Will Shine Again
The Telemann Experiment
Wait A While
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