For at least four years now, former OutKast rapper André 3000 has been spotted in airport terminals and coffee shops, from city to city and around the world, tootling on various flutes. In fact, Key & Peele all but predicted it in 2015, with a sketch that spoofed André’s eccentricity by dressing him in a Pied Piper outfit and having …
André 3000’s first LP in 17 years, set for release on Friday, will not be the rap album many OutKast fans have been waiting for. The Beatles, “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” A John Lennon classic off the “Help!” soundtrack, John Scott double-tracked a pair of flute parts that give the waltz-time track a regal finish. Beastie Boys, …
From their blues rock roots, Jethro Tull traverses the jazz fusion space, harnessed classical influences while also dabbling with folk and hard rock, thus creating a sound that is both distinctly Jethro Tull and universal. From their blues rock roots, the band traverses the jazz fusion space, harnessed classical influences while also dabbling with folk and hard rock, thus creating …
Meanwhile, the outside world kept turning, as it always does. For me, it resumed its rotations when Jethro Tull’s Dubai concert promoter called out of the blue one day in 2005, saying Ian Anderson was intending to collaborate and perform with a contemporary Indian artist; would I be interested? If some clairvoyant were to tell me then that one day …
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