| Please help improve this article by adding reliable references.Jon Douglas Lord (born Leicester 9 June 1941) is an English composer, Hammond organ and piano player.Lord, The Artwoods and Flower Pot Men.He and drummer Ian Paice were the only constant band members during the band's existence from 1968 to 1976 and from when they reformed in 1984 until Lord's retirement in 2002.One of his most ambitious works was his composition Concerto for Group and Orchestra, which was performed at the Royal Albert Hall in 1969 with Deep Purple (Lord and Paice with guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, singer Ian Gillan and bass guitarist Roger Glover) and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.His influences range from Bach (a constant connection in his music and his keyboard improvisation) to Medieval popular music and the English tradition of Elgar.Simultaneously, Lord absorbed the blues sounds that played a key part in his rock career, principally the raw sounds of the great American blues organists Jimmy Smith, Jimmy McGriff and "Brother" Jack McDuff ("Rock Candy"), as well as the stage showmanship of Jerry Lee Lewis.Keyboard contemporaries in the 1970s Keith Emerson and Rick Wakeman generally steered away from the blues or only showcased it as a novelty, but Lord embraced it fully into his style.He started his London band career in 1960 with jazz ensemble the Bill Ashton Combo.Between 1960 and 1963, Lord (along with Ashton) moved onto Red Bludd's Bluesicians (also known as The Don Wilson's Quartet), the latter of which featured singer Arthur "Art" Wood.Redd Bludd's Bluesicians in late 1963, Wood, Lord and drummer Red Dunnage put together a new band.Dunnage left in 1964 to be replaced by Keef Hartley, who had previously replaced Ringo Starr in Rory Storm and the Hurricanes.Their only chart single was I Take What I Want, which reached No 28 on 8 May 1966.The band regrouped in 1967 as St Valentine's Day Massacre, in an attempt to cash in on the 1930s gangster craze triggered by the film Bonnie and Clyde.Hartley left in 1967 to join John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.Lord joined Santa Barbara Machine Head (featuring Art's brother, the young Ron Wood) but left soon after to cover for keyboard player Billy Day in The Flower Pot Men, where he met bassist Nick Simper.Lord and Simper toured with the band in 1967 to support their Let's Go To San Francisco hit single, but they never recorded with them.It is in this period that Lord's trademark keyboard sound emerged.This delivered a rhythmic foundation to complement Blackmore's speed and virtuosity on lead guitar.Around 1973, Lord and a technician combined his Hammond C3 Organ with the RMI.Leslie sound through Marshall amplification, creating a growling, heavy, mechanical sound that gave a rhythmic counterpoint to Blackmore's lead playing.Led Zeppelin, while Simper later said: "The reason the music lacked direction was Jon Lord ****ed everything up with his classical ideas."The Concerto also gave Lord the chance to work with established classical figures, like conductor Malcolm Arnold (knighted in 1993), who brought his technical skills to bear by helping Lord score the work and to protect him from the inevitable disdain of the older members of the orchestra.Classical dalliance over, Purple began work on Deep Purple in Rock, released by EMI in 1970 and now one of heavy rock's key early works.Gillan and Glover left in 1973 and Blackmore in 1975, and the band disintegrated in 1976.The highlights of Lord's Purple work in the period include his rhythmic underpinning of Smoke on the Water, Highway Star and Space Truckin' from Machine Head (1972), his playing on the Burn album from 1974 and the sonic bombast of the Made in Japan live album from 1972.Lord himself would rarely venture into the synthesizer territory on Purple albums, often limiting his experimentation to the use of the ring modulator with the Hammond, to give live performances on tracks like Space Truckin' a distinctive 'spacey' sound.He was able to meld the Hammond soul to a heavy rock sound, demonstrating note control and speed to match Blackmore's technical fireworks on stage.Lord as Composer
Lord continued to focus on his classical aspirations alongside his Deep Purple career.It proved to be Lord's most experimental work and was released to mixed reactions.However, the dalliances with Bach on Windows and the pleasure of collaborating with Schoener resulted in perhaps Lord's most confident solo work and perhaps his strongest orchestral album, Sarabande, recorded in Germany in September 1975 with the Philharmonia Hungarica conducted by Schoener.They performed much of the set live at the London Palladium in September 1974.Lord, which lasted only a year and spawned a single album, Malice in Wonderland in 1977.He created an informal group of friends and collaborators including Ashton, Paice, Bernie Marsden, Boz Burrell and later, Bad Company's Mick Ralphs, Simon Kirke and others.Over the same period, Lord guested on albums by Maggie Bell, Nazareth and even Richard Digance.Margret), Lord joined former Deep Purple band member David Coverdale's new band, Whitesnake in August 1978 (Paice joined them in 1980 and stayed till 1982).Bernie Marsden and Micky Moody.Such varied work is evident on tracks like Here I Go Again, Wine, Women and Song, She's a Woman and Till the Day I Die.US market) smoothed the way for the reformation of Deep Purple Mk II in 1984.English classical piano ballads sung by mother and daughter duo, Vicki Brown and Sam Brown (wife and daughter of entertainer Joe Brown) and vocalist Elmer Gantry.Challen baby grand piano, previous owner, Shirley Bassey), was asked to guest on albums by friends George Harrison (Gone Troppo from 1982) and Pink Floyd's David Gilmour (1983's About Face), Cozy Powell (Octopus in 1983) and to play on an adaptation of Kenneth Grahame's classic, Wind in the Willows.Minor to G polychordal harmony sequence), gave Lord the chance to do his most powerful work for years, including on the Zeppelinesque title track, Perfect Strangers.Lord was clearly keen to explore where to take his career next.Lord's mother Miriam had died in August 1995 and the album is a deeply affecting piece, inflected at all stages by Lord's sense of grief.Recorded largely in Lord's home from home, the city of Cologne, the album's themes are Elgarian and alpine in equal measure.Pictured Within and Beyond the Notes provide the most personal work by Lord and together, have what his earlier solo work perhaps lacks, a very clear musical voice that is quintessentially his.Sydney, with Australia's Jimmy Barnes, entitled Live in the Basement, by Jon Lord and the Hootchie Cootchie Men, 2003.He remains one of British rock music's most eclectic and talented instrumentalists.Featured artists on stage with Lord included Paul Weller, Robert Plant, Phil Manzanera, Ian Paice and Bernie Marsden.Both feature the Odense Symfoniorkester, conducted by Paul Mann.Additionally, a second Hoochie Coochie Men album is in the can as of July 2006 recording in London.White Men Dancing, was released in October 2007.His Durham Concerto, commissioned by Durham University for its 175th anniversary celebrations, received its world premiere on 20 October 2007 in Durham Cathedral by the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and featured soloists Lord on Hammond Organ, Kathryn Tickell on Northumbrian pipes, Matthew Barley on cello and Ruth Palmer on violin.Beatle George Harrison, and played piano on the posthumously released Brainwashed (2002) album.With Whitesnake
Trouble (1978)
Lovehunter (1979)
Ready an' Willing (1980)
Live...Virgin Classics, 1997)
'Before I Forget': Jon Lord interviews by Mike Beecher and Phil Easton (1982)
'Sarabande': Notes by Vince Budd, South Uist, research by Simon Robinson, July 1998
'Burn': 30th Anniversary Edition, notes by Nigel Young, May 2004
'Made in Japan': sleeve notes to official remastered recording by Simon Robinson (1998)
'Purple Reign': Interview with Jon Lord by Lee Marlow, 26 July 2000
'Kindred Sprit' magazine: Interview with Jon Lord, Summer 2000
'Daily Mail': Weekend Magazine, Interview with Jon Lord 'On the Mauve', 1997
'Keyboard Review': Interview with Jon Lord by Cliff Douse, Issue 139, July 1997
'Classic Albums: Machine Head' (DVD): Interviews with Jon Lord, Gillan, Glover, Paice, Blackmore, Eagle Rock Entertainment Limited, 2002
'The Kids Are Alright': Interview with Bill Ashton, MBE, by Vinyl Vulture.Jon Lord Send to Friend Photo by Warner Bros.Jon Lord was born June 9, 1941, in Leicester, England.Find Jon Lord's new official website at JonLord.You did not enter a search term.Rock Band downloadables revealed!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.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.Despite the subsequent additions of singer David Coverdale and guitarist Tommy Bolin, Deep Purple never again regained its peak popularity.The House of Blue Light before frictions again forced Gillan from the group.Please refresh the page to fix the problem.Machine Head cracked the U.Despite the subsequent additions of singer David Coverdale and guitarist Tommy Bolin, Deep Purple never again regained its peak popularity.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.Jon Lord was born June 9, 1941, in Leicester, England.He began playing piano at age nine, later forgoing his...Jon Lord was born June 9, 1941, in Leicester, England.He began playing piano at age nine, later forgoing his...Write a ReviewYour TakeTell the world what you think about Jon Lord!AEC One Stop Group, Inc.Visit other CNET Networks sites: Select SiteBNETCNET.Not the Jon Lord you're looking for?Trivia:
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