Saturday, May 31, 2025

Jon Lord






Artist:  Jon Lord
Birth Name:  Jonathan Douglas Lord
Born:   June 9, 1941.  Leicester, England
Died:   July 16, 2012 (Aged 71).  London, England
Genre:  Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Blues Rock, Progressive Rock, Classical Rock, Jazz, Jazz Rock
Occupations:  Musician, Songwriter
Instruments:  Keyboards, Organ, Piano, Synthesizer, Vocals

Joh Lord was an English Composer, Pianist and Hammond Organ Player, best-known as Keyboards of one of the best Hard Rock Group Deep Purple, besides his works with Whitesnake, Paice, Ashton & Lord, The Artwoods and Flower Pot Men.

In 1968,  Joh Lord founded Deep Purple, he wrote the organ riff on "Child In Time", he retired from Deep Purple in 2002.  In 2011, he was granted an Honorary Doctor Of Music Degree by his home town's University of Leicester.  He died on 16th July, 2012 after suffering from pancreatic cancer at the London Clinic.





 






















Title:  Windows (Limited Edition) (2025)
Genre:  Rock, Hard Rock, Heavy Metal, Blues Rock, Progressive Rock, Classical Rock, Jazz, Jazz Rock
Label:  Dark Horse Records/BMG
Rating:   *****

Format:  LP

Tracks:

Side One:

 1.  Continuo On B.A.C.H. (16:27)

Side Two:

 1.  Windows (32:22)
      1.  1st Movement - Renga 
      2.  2nd Movement - Gemini
      3.  3rd Movement - Alla Marcia:  Allegro

Personnel:

Jon Lord:  Piano, Organ, ARO Synthesizer
David Coverdale:  Vocals
Ray Fenwick:  Guitar
Tony Ashton:  Piano, Organ, Vocals
Glenn Hughes:  Bass, Vocals
Pete York:  Drums,, Percussion

The Orchestra Of The Munich Chamber Opera

Eberhard Schoener:  Conductor, Moog Synthesizer
Ermina Santi, Sigune Von Osten:  Soprano Vocals
George Morrison:  Trumpet Solo
Gottfried Greiner:  Cello Solo
Gunter Salber:  Violin Solo

Windows is a live album by Jon Lord and the German Conductor and Composer Eberhard Schoener, originally released on September 1974 by Purple Records, remastered and reissued on May 16, 2025 by Dark Horse Records/UMC, including David Coverdale, Glenn Hughes, Tony Ashton and more.  Limited Edition 50th Anniversary Orange Vinyl.











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