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The Hunt For New Music: Van Morrison’s Montreaux Jazz Festival appearance in 1974 is a classic. It’s Van at an early stage in his career, already with a massive catalog of great songs, playing to a sophisticated jazz audience in Montreaux at the famous jazz festival; as one writer noted about the evening, the crowded …
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The Hunt For New Music : Van Morrison appearing with The Band in 1979 during the final concert of the seminal documentary, The Last Waltz.The Song is “Caravan” one of his very best and a signature tune. The movie was directed by Martin Scorsese and if you have not seen it, it is definitely something any music …
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The Hunt For New Music : Van Morrison appearing with The Band in 1979 during the final concert of the seminal documentary, The Last Waltz.The Song is “Caravan” one of his very best and a signature tune. The movie was directed by Martin Scorsese and if you have not seen it, it is definitely something any music …
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The Hunt For New Music: The audio/video sync is not great in this clip which includes Moondance, Checking It Out, and Wavelength (sensational version) but the music is fabulous. The video was recorded live in 1979 in Dublin (apparently based on the videos that surfaced during research for this weekend’s Van Morrison Concert Weekend, he …
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The Hunt For New Music: One of a pair of live concerts Van performed in Ireland in 1979, this one in Bellfast, contains one of the all-time great renditions of his first really big hit, “Gloria”. Van, seen here performing with his really tight band, is in front of a very sharp crowd that …
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The Hunt for New Music: Van Morrison doing “Have I Told You Lately That I Love You”, a song made famous by Rod Stewart and also used frequenctly in movie scores. This version features saxophonist Candy Dulfer and Pee Wee Ellis. Special Thanks to vossmeister who uploaded this to YouTube; the clip is 6:59 in …
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The Hunt For New Music: Van Morrison does very few live concerts as all true Van Morrison fans know. And that’s precisely why this Memorial Day Weekend we’re putting up a selection of live Van Morrison Performances. This one is from a live concert at the BBC. It’s long–over 50 minutes–but superb, from BBC Four in …
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The Hunt For New Music : For years, the rarest of concerts was one in which Van Morrison performed live. Not that he was or is a poor live performer–to the contrary, like everything that Van Morrison does, he was absolutely terrific and his live albums have been cited as among the very best of any …
The Hunt For New Music. Two giants of music, Robbie Robertson, semi-reclusive, alternately dark and light, and Eric Clapton, perhaps the very best guitarist of our era, a shape-shifting musical chameleon who has mastered more musical styles than most have heard, combine for a stirring rendition of “Who Do You Love” performed at Clapton’s Crossroad …
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The Hunt For New Music. Two giants of music, Robbie Robertson, semi-reclusive, alternately dark and light, and Eric Clapton, perhaps the very best guitarist of our era, a shape-shifting musical chameleon who has mastered more musical styles than most have heard, combine for a stirring rendition of “Who Do You Love” performed at Clapton’s Crossroad …
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