Sealed LP: Jon Lord: Gemini Suite

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Jon Lord: Gemini Suite

FACTORY SEALED LP

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• Phil McDonald: Engineer
• David Measham: Violin
• Michael Mitchell: Viola
• Robertt Nunn: Piano
• Ian Paice: Drums
• Cyril Reubens: Violin
• George Robertson: Viola
• David Stock: Engineer
• Tom Swift: Violin
• Brian Thomas: Violin
• Ken Law: Cello
• Samuel Artis: Violin
• Clarence Atkinson: Viola
• Edward Beckett: Flute
• Robert Bourton: Bassoon
• Stanley Castle: Violin
• Anthony Chidell
• Sydney Colter: Violin
• David Cripps: Horn
• Dennis Gaines: Violin
• Kurt Hans Goedicke: Tympani (Timpani)
• Arthur Griffiths: Bass
• Roy Jowitt: Clarinet
• William Lang: Trumpet
• Keith Marjarom: Bass
• Frank Mathison: Trombone
• Ian McDonough: Violin
• Terence Morton: Violin
• Robert Noble: Horn
• Ray Northcott: Percussion
• Douglas Powrie: Cello
• Robert Retallick: Violin
• Lowry Sanders: Flute
• Renata Scheffel-Stein: Harp
• Basil Smart: Violin
• David Williams: Violin
• David Gray: Horn
• William Brown: Violin
• John Brown: Violin
• Dave Brown: Cello
• John Cooper: Bass
• William Jones: Viola
• Yvonne Elliman: Vocals
• Roger Glover: Bass
• John Lees: Percussion
• Jon Lord: Keyboards, Main Performer
• Alex Taylor: Viola
• Ray Adams: Cello
• Tony Ashton: Keyboards, Vocals
• Howard Ball: Violin
• Martin Birch: Engineer
• Oscar Butterworth: Violin
• Anthony Camden: Oboe
• David Chappell: Viola
• Peter Civil: Horn
• Ben Cruft: Violin
• Douglas Cummings: Cello
• Julian Cummings: Violin
• John Duffy: Bass
• Graham Elliott: Cello
• Hans Geiger: Violin
• John Georgiadis: Violin
• Tim Good: Violin
• Michael Lee Gray: Engineer
• Martin Loveday: Violin
• Albert Lee: Guitar
• The London Symphony Orchestra
• Malcolm Arnold: Conductor

• After the cold reception of his first orchestral release, Jon Lord wisely decided to disassociate such work from the Deep Purple name -- even though the lineup here is largely the same. Those who enjoyed "Concerto for Group and Orchestra" will find even more to love here, while the many Deep Purple fans who didn't care for "Concerto" will probably remain unimpressed. Still, even though "Concerto" saw listeners suffering through orchestral noodling for a few minutes of ass-kicking rock, this time around the band and orchestra are better integrated. The first movement contains an eminently sample-worthy bit of ice-cool jazz in a drum roll and walking bassline by Paice and Glover before descending into brittle percussive piano soloing, while the third movement has some wonderfully dissonant bass soloing over the brass and percussion sections by Glover. And in a goofy but appropriate period touch, the London Symphony Orchestra members are listed by their astrological signs, rather than by "woodwinds" or "strings." ~ Paul Collins, All Music Guide

• A founding member of heavy metal institution Deep Purple, keyboardist/composer Jon Lord was born June 9, 1941, in Leicester, England. He began playing piano at age nine, later forgoing his classical studies to play rock, jazz, and blues. Around 1960, he relocated to London, following a stint with the Bill Ashton Combo by joining Red Bludd's Bluesicians. In 1964, Lord played on the Kinks' eponymous debut LP (retitled You Really Got Me for American consumption); around the same time, his group the Artwoods released their first single "Sweet Mary," issuing several more singles prior to the 1966 full-length Art Gallery. After the 1967 Jazz in Jeans appeared to little response, the band re-christened itself St Valentine's Day Massacre, adopting a gangster-influenced image for their lone single, "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?"
• Lord next surfaced in the short-lived Santa Barbara Machinehead, and in early 1968 joined Roundabout; after a brief tour of Scandinavia, the group -- also including vocalist Rod Evans, guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, bassist Nick Simper, and drummer Ian Paice -- changed its name to Deep Purple. Originally favoring a classically inspired rock sound dominated by Lord's keyboard flourishes, the group's debut LP Shades of Deep Purple generated the Top Five smash "Hush," while the 1969 follow-up The Book of Taliesyn featured a Top 40 cover of Neil Diamond's "Kentucky Woman." However, in mid-1969. Evans and Simper left Deep Purple, and the arrivals of singer Ian Gillan and bassist Roger Glover heralded a more aggressive, thunderously heavy approach over the course of albums including 1970's Deep Purple in Rock and 1971's Fireball. Although 1972's Machine Head cracked the U.S. Top Ten on the strength of the AOR staple "Smoke on the Water," personality conflicts between Gillan and Blackmore precipitated the singer's departure from the group in mid-1973. Despite the subsequent additions of singer David Coverdale and guitarist Tommy Bolin, Deep Purple never again regained its peak popularity.
• In 1974, Lord cut the solo album Gemini Suite, based on a concerto he'd written for the BBC four years earlier; Sarabande followed in 1975, and in the wake of Deep Purple's demise he joined Coverdale's new band, Whitesnake. Lord's next solo album, Before I Forget, appeared in 1982; two years later, he reunited with Gillan, Blackmore, Glover, and Paice to re-form Deep Purple, issuing the album Perfect Strangers. The re-formed group toured to great success, and in 1987 released The House of Blue Light before frictions again forced Gillan from the group. Roster changes consistently plagued the group throughout the years to come, but as before Lord remained a constant of the lineup. The solo Pictured Within followed in the autumn of 1998.

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