Gong & Bill Bruford - Live Oslo & Rotterdam 1974

Bach would have been proud: Emerson punks out

David Bowie at his most mysterious.

Hat tip to PitchFork.

Jordan Rudess has exceptional taste in progressive rock

A very good list if I do so say myself. Wow!

The seductive power of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's "Take A Pebble"

Emerson, Lake and Palmer's Take a Pebble serenity punctuated by tight jazz. Great stuff still!



And let's not forget Part 2:

We need to hear more from Marc Bonilla

Marc Bonilla's soaring intrepretation of Procol Harem's Whiter Shade of Pale

YouTube - UKZ "Radiation"

Here's Eddie and Company UKZ-Band "Radiation"

Mind bender: Eddie Jobson at Arlington's Regent Theatre.

Eddie Jobson's musical career -- extending from Curved Air to Roxy Music, U.K. and beyond -- speaks for itself. He's a master and a gentleman. And his August 19, 2009 show at Arlington's Regent Theater rocked.

Serenity now! Or later

YouTube - UK (U.K.) "Nevermore" with Eddie Jobson, Alan Holdsworth, John Wetton and Bill Bruford.

I prefer my Holdsworth in an ensemble setting like this one.

Music for a thinking man: Keith Emerson's "Prelude to a Hope"

KEITH EMERSON: Prelude to a Hope

Wish you were still here

One of the great keyboardists of my time has passed away. Pink Floyd's Richard Wright lost his battle with cancer over the weekend. The thrust of his melodious work still rings in my ears from my first rock concert at the Boston Garden in the early seventies. He will be missed. But his signature lives on. More here

Bravo David Stewart, keyboard master

The only kind of National Health I can endorse!