Crossbreed General Fibrosis

Despite many members barely into their thirties, Grand General is a Norwegian super group of sorts. Ola Kvernberg is, perhaps, best-known internationally for a string of recordings that, including Folk (Jazzland, 2009) and the more ambitious Liarbird (Jazzland, 2011), have garnered the violinist/violist plaudits like the DnB NOR Award at the 2012 Kongsberg Jazz Festival. Guitarist Even Helte Hermansen has also garnered increasing attention at the helm of popular power trio Bushman's Revenge, whose Jitterbug Waltz (Rune Grammofon, 2010) demonstrated that it's possible to couch retro vibes in a modernist context.

General Maynyrd Band started when Dan Ingberman (guitar) had accumulated a bunch of songs that just didn’t fit with his band Crooked Flower. With his bandmates Daniel Erik (bass) and Pat Shields (drums and percussion) suggested that we put together a side project with Drew Southern (guitar) and Will Kyriazis (piano and keyboards), who in addition to playing on various Crooked Flower albums, was in another band called Hibbity Dibbity with Tom Relling (slide guitar), another old friend who had played with everyone.

Joe Hisaishi composed this all-new score for the classic 1926 film The General starring Buster Keaton! The General is a 1926 American silent comedy film released by United Artists inspired by the Great Locomotive Chase, which happened in 1862. Buster Keaton starred in the film and co-directed it with Clyde Bruckman. It was adapted by Al Boasberg, Bruckman, Keaton, Charles Henry Smith (uncredited) and Paul Girard Smith (uncredited) from the memoir The Great Locomotive Chase by William Pittenger.

GUNS N' ROSES' 'The General' To Be Released Digitally On Friday. GUNS N' ROSES' song "The General" will be released digitally on Friday, December 8. "The General" is the B-side of GUNS N' ROSES' limited-edition seven-inch vinyl single titled "Perhaps", which was made available for pre-order in August. GUNS N' ROSES performed "The General" live for the first time on November 2 at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. The track was introduced by singer Axl Rose as a song they hadn't played before and that "it could be very interesting."

An historical recording of the first performance in Athens, of "Canto General", the "Bible of South America" composed by Mikis Theodorakis, on the poetry of the Nobelist Chilean "national poet", Pablo Neruda. Maria Farantouri and Petros Pandis are singing in spanish, the original Neruda lyrics. They are backed by the National Chorus of France, the Percussions of Strasbourg and a Greek Folk Orchestra with two great bouzouki soloists. This live recording is unique, since it immortalized the superb enthousiastic atmosphere created by 75.000 applauding spectators. A collector's item.

By the time he was 14 year old, the Parisian Hervé Salters, also known as RV, and the man behind the electro-jazzy General Elektriks, was playing keyboards and synthesizers with local bands around London and Paris. Six years later, he had discovered the Clavinet, Wurlizter, Hammond B-3, and Fender Rhodes, the latter of which is highlighted on General Elektriks' debut album, Cliquety Kliqk. Salters' expertise with "vintage sound" led him to recording gigs on Femi Kuti's 1999 album Shoki Shoki, as well as tracks with Quannum Records members (and future labelmates) like Lyrics Born and the Lifesavas.

Pianist, composer, and improviser William Tatge was born of American parents in Umbria, Italy in 1978 and lived in Todi and Florence until 2008, when he moved to New York City. Tatge began studies on violin and piano at age six, and after a storied career as a student (studying classical piano and graduating summa cum laude in 2000 from the L. Cherubini Conservatory of Florence, followed by studies in composition, orchestration and conducting, earning a second degree in 2006, also summa cum laude). During these years Tatge explored improvisation and jazz and from ’96 to ’99 he studied privately with Stefano Bollani and attended the Siena Jazz summer workshops. Later studies included instruction with Enrico Pieranunzi, Franco D’Andrea and Paolo Birro. He also participated in Stefano Battaglia’s Solo Piano and Piano Trio winter seminars in Siena in 2004 and 2005.

General Public - I'll Take You There (1994) is a cover of The Staple Singers' iconic song, reimagined by the British band General Public. Released as part of the soundtrack for the film Threesome, this version blends the original soulful vibe with a more upbeat, dance-rock style, characteristic of General Public's punk and new wave influences. The track was a commercial success, peaking at #22 on the Billboard Hot 100 and #38 on the Canadian RPM Top Singles year-end chart in 1994.