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Time To Think (Mo Foster Album)
''Time to Think'' is a live album by Mo Foster. Most of the tracks were written while Foster was on a trip to New Zealand. The album was conceived as a soundscape of acoustic instruments and to that end was recorded in a small Oxfordshire church that was chosen for its acoustics. Track listing # "Its About That Time of Day" – 5:29 # "Leo" – 5:37 # "Omapere Dawn" – 4:35 # "On Frith Street" – 5:42 # "Mangonui" – 6:27 # "Guardians" – 5:59 # "Waves II" – 1:48 # "Shades of Grey" – 3:49 # "Let's Go On Somewhere" – 5:38 # "The Long Man of Wilmington" – 6:16 # "A Notional Anthem" – 5:05 # "Time to Think" – 3:32 Personnel * Mo Foster – bass guitar, fretless bass, five-string bass * Iain Ballamy Iain Ballamy (born 20 February 1964) is a British composer and saxophonist. He is considered one of the greatest modern jazz saxophonists. Career Ballamy was born in Guildford, Surrey, and educated at George Abbot School, Guildford, from 1975 ... – soprano sa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo Foster
Mo Foster (born Michael Ralph Foster, 22 December 1944) is an English multi-instrumentalist, record producer, composer, solo artist, author, and public speaker. Through a career spanning over half a century, Foster has toured, recorded, and performed with dozens of artists, including Jeff Beck, Gil Evans, Phil Collins, Ringo Starr, Joan Armatrading, Gerry Rafferty, Brian May, Scott Walker, Frida of ABBA, Cliff Richard, George Martin, Van Morrison, Dr John, Hank Marvin, Heaven 17 and the London Symphony Orchestra. He has released several albums under his own name, authored a humorous book on the history of British rock guitar, written numerous articles for music publications, continued to compose production music, and established himself as a public speaker. Foster is an assessor for JAMES, an industry organisation that gives accreditation to music colleges throughout the UK. In 2014, Foster was a recipient of a BASCA Gold Badge Award to honour his lifelong contribution to the Br ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxford
Oxford () is a city in England. It is the county town and only city of Oxfordshire. In 2020, its population was estimated at 151,584. It is north-west of London, south-east of Birmingham and north-east of Bristol. The city is home to the University of Oxford, the oldest university in the English-speaking world; it has buildings in every style of English architecture since late Anglo-Saxon. Oxford's industries include motor manufacturing, education, publishing, information technology and science. History The history of Oxford in England dates back to its original settlement in the Saxon period. Originally of strategic significance due to its controlling location on the upper reaches of the River Thames at its junction with the River Cherwell, the town grew in national importance during the early Norman period, and in the late 12th century became home to the fledgling University of Oxford. The city was besieged during The Anarchy in 1142. The university rose to dom ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jazz Fusion
Jazz fusion (also known as fusion and progressive jazz) is a music genre that developed in the late 1960s when musicians combined jazz harmony and jazz improvisation, improvisation with rock music, funk, and rhythm and blues. Electric guitars, amplifiers, and keyboards that were popular in rock and roll started to be used by jazz musicians, particularly those who had grown up listening to rock and roll. Jazz fusion arrangements vary in complexity. Some employ groove-based vamps fixed to a single key or a single chord with a simple, repeated melody. Others use elaborate chord progressions, unconventional time signatures, or melodies with counter-melodies. These arrangements, whether simple or complex, typically include improvised sections that can vary in length, much like in other forms of jazz. As with jazz, jazz fusion can employ brass and woodwind instruments such as trumpet and saxophone, but other instruments often substitute for these. A jazz fusion band is less likely to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rock Music
Rock music is a broad genre of popular music that originated as " rock and roll" in the United States in the late 1940s and early 1950s, developing into a range of different styles in the mid-1960s and later, particularly in the United States and United Kingdom.W. E. Studwell and D. F. Lonergan, ''The Classic Rock and Roll Reader: Rock Music from its Beginnings to the mid-1970s'' (Abingdon: Routledge, 1999), p.xi It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rock and roll, a style that drew directly from the blues and rhythm and blues genres of African-American music and from country music. Rock also drew strongly from a number of other genres such as electric blues and folk, and incorporated influences from jazz, classical, and other musical styles. For instrumentation, rock has centered on the electric guitar, usually as part of a rock group with electric bass guitar, drums, and one or more singers. Usually, rock is song-based music with a time signature using a verse–chorus form, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ambient Music
Ambient music is a genre of music that emphasizes tone and atmosphere over traditional musical structure or rhythm. It may lack net composition, beat, or structured melody.The Ambient Century by Mark Prendergast, Bloomsbury, London, 2003. It uses textural layers of sound that can reward both passive and active listening and encourage a sense of calm or contemplation. The genre is said to evoke an "atmospheric", "visual",Prendergast, M. ''The Ambient Century''. 2001. Bloomsbury, USA or "unobtrusive" quality. Nature soundscapes may be included, and the sounds of acoustic instruments such as the piano, strings and flute may be emulated through a synthesizer. The genre originated in the 1960s and 1970s, when new musical instruments were being introduced to a wider market, such as the synthesizer. It was presaged by Erik Satie's furniture music and styles such as musique concrète, minimal music, and German electronic music, but was prominently named and popularized by British mu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Reunion
''Southern Reunion'' (Angel Air Records, Angel Air SJPCD163) is Mo Foster's second solo album. All tracks were produced by Mo Foster, Mo, Audio engineer, engineered and Audio mixing (recorded music), mixed by Simon Smart, with the exception of "The Man From The Everglades" which was Audio engineer, engineered and Audio mixing (recorded music), mixed by Mo Foster, Mo. ''Southern Reunion'' was originally released on the MMC Record label, label in 1991 and was subsequently remastered and re-released in 2004 on the Angel Air Records, Angel Air record label. Track listing # "Gil" – 5:22 # "Blue" – 5:25 # "Achill Island" – 6:48 # "Waves" – 5:17 # "Tricotism" – 4:06 # "A Notional Anthem" – 5:28 # "Southern Reunion" – 4:29 # "Grand Unified Boogie" – 3:57 # "Fractal Landscape" – 4:24 # "Shin-Kan-Sen" – 6:09 # "The Man From The Everglades" – 4:05 (bonus track only on 2004 reissue) All tracks were written by Mo Foster with the exception of "Tricotism" which was wr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Live At Blues West 14
''Live At Blues West 14'' is Mo Foster's fourth solo album. All tracks were produced and arranged by Mo and mixed by Simon Smart. ''Live At Blues West 14'' was released on the Angel Air label in 2006. Track listing # "Hot Buttered Cats" – 7:40 # "Prelude - That Dream Again" – 1:07 # "So Far Away" – 6:15 # "Oh No" – 5:01 # "The Cry of The Unheard" – 4:59 # "Prelude - Blues SW19" – 2:28 # "Tricotism" – 4:18 # "Let's Go On Somewhere" – 5:25 # "Tradewinds" – 4:14 # "The Four Susans" – 6:05 # "The Importance Of Being Invoiced" – 3:49 # "Crete: Yet Another Visit" – 4:36 # "Blues For B&C" – 5:53 Personnel * Mo Foster - Bass guitar, Fretless Bass, Acoustic Guitar, keyboards * Ray Russell - Electric guitar, Acoustic Guitar * Simon Chamberlain - Piano * Dave Hartley - Piano * Phil Peskett - Piano, keyboards * Nick Brown - Electric Piano * Gary Husband - drums * Ralph Salmins - drums * Iain Bellamy - Soprano Saxophone * Corrina Silvester ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Oxfordshire
Oxfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the north west of South East England. It is a mainly rural county, with its largest settlement being the city of Oxford. The county is a centre of research and development, primarily due to the work of the University of Oxford and several notable science parks. These include the Harwell Science and Innovation Campus and Milton Park, both situated around the towns of Didcot and Abingdon-on-Thames. It is a landlocked county, bordered by six counties: Berkshire to the south, Buckinghamshire to the east, Wiltshire to the south west, Gloucestershire to the west, Warwickshire to the north west, and Northamptonshire to the north east. Oxfordshire is locally governed by Oxfordshire County Council, together with local councils of its five non-metropolitan districts: City of Oxford, Cherwell, South Oxfordshire, Vale of White Horse, and West Oxfordshire. Present-day Oxfordshire spanning the area south of the Thames was h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Iain Ballamy
Iain Ballamy (born 20 February 1964) is a British composer and saxophonist. He is considered one of the greatest modern jazz saxophonists. Career Ballamy was born in Guildford, Surrey, and educated at George Abbot School, Guildford, from 1975 to 1980. He then studied Musical Instrument Technology from 1980 to 1982 at Merton College. He took piano lessons from age of 6 to 14. He discovered saxophone in 1978 with three lessons and his first professional gig was in 1980. He played Ronnie Scotts as Iain Ballamy Quartet at age 20. He was a founding member of Loose Tubes in 1984. First recording with Billy Jenkins in 1985, his first solo album, '' Balloon Man'', was released in 1988. One of his closest musical collaborators is Django Bates. During his career he has performed or recorded with a wide range of musicians including Gil Evans, Hermeto Pascoal, New York Composers Orchestra, Carla Bley, Dewey Redman, George Coleman, London Sinfonietta, Françios Jeanneau, Daniel Humair, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ray Russell (musician)
Raymond 'Ray' Russell (born 4 April 1947) is an English session musician who is primarily a guitarist. He is also a record producer and composer. In 1973 he was a member of the band Mouse, which released a progressive rock album entitled ''Lady Killer'' for the Sovereign record label. His TV compositions have included ''A Touch of Frost'', '' Bergerac'', ''Plain Jane'', ''A Bit of a Do'', ''Rich Tea and Sympathy'', ''The Inspector Alleyn Mysteries'', '' Dangerfield'' and '' Grafters'', as well as many other British and American television programmes. He also played in the DVD ''Simon Phillips Returns'' with Simon Phillips and Anthony Jackson. With colleagues Mo Foster and Ralph Salmins, Russell gives musical seminars at UK educational establishments. In 2008 Russell, drummer Ralph Salmins, and sound engineer Rik Walton created Made Up Music, a music library that distributes music on its web site and by sending portable hard drives to music editors. The company sells musi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Ricotti
Frank Ricotti (born 31 January 1949) is an English jazz vibraphonist and percussionist. Early life and education Ricotti was born in London, England. His father was a drummer. Bill Ashton, founder of the National Youth Jazz Orchestra (NYJO), was an early mentor. As a teenager, Ricotti played vibraphone and learned composition and arranging in the NYJO, and later attended Trinity College of Music between 1967 and 1970. Career Ricotti worked with Neil Ardley (1968–71), Dave Gelly, Graham Collier, Mike Gibbs (1969–72), Stan Tracey (1970), Harry Beckett (1970–72), Norma Winstone (1971), Gordon Beck (1973–74), Hans Zimmer. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Ricotti led his own jazz quartet. A line-up of the band featuring the guitarist Chris Spedding, bassist Chris Laurence and drummer Bryan Spring recorded the album ''Our Point of View'', released in July 1969. In 1971, in partnership with bassist Mike de Albuquerque, he released the album ''First Wind'' (as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mo Foster Albums
Mo or MO may refer to: Arts and entertainment Fictional characters * Mo, a girl in the '' Horrible Histories'' TV series * Mo, also known as Mortimer, in the novel '' Inkheart'' by Cornelia Funke * Mo, in the webcomic ''Jesus and Mo'' * Mo, the main character in the ''Mo's Mischief'' children's book series * Mo, an ophthalmosaurus from ''The Land Before Time'' franchise * MO (Maintenance Operator), a robot in the Filmation series ''Young Sentinels'' * Mo, a main character in '' Zoey's Extraordinary Playlist'' * M-O (Microbe Obliterator), a robot in film '' WALL-E'' * Mo the clown, a character played by Roy Rene, 20th-century Australian stage comedian * Mo Effanga, in the BBC medical drama series ''Holby City'' * Mo Harris, in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' * Little Mo Mitchell, in the BBC soap opera ''EastEnders'' Films * "Mo" (魔 demon), original title of ''The Boxer's Omen'', a 1983 Hong Kong film * ''Mo'' (2010 film), a television movie about British politician Mo M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
