Giles Robson, Author at Channel Eye

Deep listening: Miles Davis – Bitches Brew

Giles Robson — Wed, 07 Apr 2021 04:01:44 +0000

Join Giles Robson for this week’s Deep Listening column. Today we focus on Miles Davis’ Bitches Brew Here’s a question, If you’d been a Jazz artist (an instrumentalist) of stature both artistically and commercially in the fifties and sixties and you earned your living through playing Jazz how you would have positioned yourself in the […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 7 April 2021 at 04:01 GMT.

Deep listening: How Little Walter’s ‘Juke’ revolutionary technique redefined his instrument

Giles Robson — Wed, 31 Mar 2021 04:01:57 +0000

Join Giles Robson for this week’s Deep Listening column. Today we focus on Little Walter’s ‘Juke’. In the case of most rock and popular music writing, to quantify a genius when it comes to instrumental virtuosity and innovation is to label the artist the ‘Jimi Hendrix’ of their instrument. It’s used so often that it’s become […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 31 March 2021 at 04:01 GMT.

Deep listening: Tony Lenanne – a life in music

Giles Robson — Wed, 24 Mar 2021 05:02:35 +0000

For us musicians and music fans who are living their lives in the 21stcentury but are devoted to music of the post war years of the 20th century, the Internet has been the most incredible resource. In my case, as a rabid blues fan, Youtube suddenly presented me with video footage of the blues legends […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 24 March 2021 at 05:02 GMT.

Deep listening: Mose Allison – Authentic emotion

Giles Robson — Wed, 17 Mar 2021 05:04:11 +0000

As a musician, a sharp mind and a honed, knowing and controlled intelligence and an abundance of confidence can get you into a lot of trouble. Music that appears superficially simple in terms of notes and technicality can actually contain a world of layered emotion and feeling that people relate to on a level that […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 17 March 2021 at 05:04 GMT.

Deep listening: Jimi Hendrix at Monterey – Rock me baby

Giles Robson — Wed, 10 Mar 2021 05:02:23 +0000

For those who know me personally or know me through my career it will come as no surprise that from an early age I’ve been addicted to and musically dedicated to African American blues. I’m 42 now and things haven’t changed, in fact I’m probably into it deeper than ever before. I can pinpoint the […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 10 March 2021 at 05:02 GMT.

Deep listening: Sonny Boy Williamson – when less is more

Giles Robson — Wed, 03 Mar 2021 05:02:21 +0000

Only two pieces of music have caused me to shiver in involuntary delight and both are by the same extraordinary African American blues musician, Sonny Boy Williamson. He died in 1965 some 13 years before I was born but his reputation has only grown over years and he is widely considered one of the classic […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 3 March 2021 at 05:02 GMT.

Deep listening: Classic jazz you can use

Giles Robson — Wed, 24 Feb 2021 05:02:57 +0000

I don’t expect an actual physical medal for writing this week’s Deep Listening, but I do expect some sort of commendation for bravery. For even as I consider typing the word ‘jazz’, I already feel a cold clammy feeling of fear descend upon me. Fear, because it’s a bit of a no-no to bring the […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 24 February 2021 at 05:02 GMT.

Deep listening: A look into the business of music

Giles Robson — Wed, 17 Feb 2021 15:02:39 +0000

After being stuck indoors for the most part of a Covid-centric 2020 and the start of 2021, I think we can all agree that online digital streaming of the arts, whether it be films music or radio has been a highly prized sanity preserving factor in getting through this ordeal, an ordeal that is still […]

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First published by Channel Eye on 17 February 2021 at 15:02 GMT.