KUWATA BAND is a Japanese rock band formed by Southern All Stars member Keisuke Kuwata. Their record company is Southern’s exclusive label, Taishita Label . The motivation for forming the band was Kuwata’s desire to “try some nonsense rock someday!”, who had been active with Southern All Stars until 1985, and Hara’s maternity leave, which […]
Arrival
“Arrival” is a 1976 composition by Swedish pop group ABBA featured on their album Arrival. It is an instrumental piece, mainly the brainchild of member Benny Andersson. The most widely heard cover versions are ones by French singer Michèle Torr released under the title “J’aime”, British musician Mike Oldfield on his album QE2, the singing […]
Interstellar (Soundtrack)
Interstellar: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the album composed by Hans Zimmer for the 2014 film by Christopher Nolan. Hans Zimmer had previously worked with director Christopher Nolan several times, scoring Nolan’s The Dark Knight film trilogy and Inception. Without revealing the plot of Interstellar, Nolan wrote a short story for Zimmer about a father […]
Portsmouth
Portsmouth” is a traditional English folk dance tune, similar to an Irish or Scottish hornpipe melody. It is sometimes referred to as the “Portsmouth Hornpipe”. “Portsmouth” appeared in the 11th edition of John Playford’s The Dancing Master in 1701. It is also one of the three arrangements on which English composer Ralph Vaughan Williams based […]
So What
“So What” is the first track on the 1959 album Kind of Blue by American trumpeter Miles Davis. It is one of the best-known examples of modal jazz, set in the Dorian mode and consisting of 16 bars of D Dorian, followed by eight bars of E♭ Dorian and another eight of D Dorian. This […]
Body and Soul
“Body and Soul” is a popular song and jazz standard written in 1930 with music by Johnny Green and lyrics by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyton. It was also used as the musical theme and underscoring in the American film noir boxing drama Body and Soul. “Body and Soul” was written in New […]
Caravan
“Caravan” is an American jazz standard by Juan Tizol and Duke Ellington, first performed by Ellington in 1936. Irving Mills wrote lyrics, but they are rarely sung. The song has regained popularity since being featured prominently in the 2014 film Whiplash. Barney Bigard and His Jazzopaters introduced “Caravan” on the Variety label in December, 1936. […]
Alicia Witt
Alicia Roanne Witt an American actress and musician. She first came to fame as a child actress after being discovered by David Lynch in 1980, when he heard her recite Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet on the television show That’s Incredible! at age five. He cast her in Dune (1984) and Twin Peaks (1990). Witt was […]
Tal Wilkenfield
Tal Wilkenfeld is an Australian bassist, singer and songwriter. While playing at a club in New York in 2006, Wilkenfeld met some members of the Allman Brothers Band. She credits Oteil Burbridge and Derek Trucks with encouraging her to join them at the Beacon Theatre, her first time on a large stage. The jam was […]
Begin The Beguine
“Begin the Beguine” is a popular song written by Cole Porter. Porter composed the song during a 1935 Pacific cruise aboard the Cunard ocean liner Franconia from Kalabahi, Indonesia to Fiji. In October 1935, it was introduced by June Knight in the Broadway musical Jubilee, produced at the Imperial Theatre in New York City. The […]