Yourstruly with Peter Xan in winter wonderland, Hyde Park. London
Schools out!
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Hollywood Bowl:
Thomas Wilkins left – Conductor of Orchestra
David Campbell back right – Orchestral arrangements
Yours truly – lowering the standards of excellence
Listen back to Chrissie talking to Steve Jones on @jonesysjukebox ahead of her show at @hollywoodbowl this Saturday! Link to the show is in the bio.
Don’t miss Chrissie’s @hollywoodbowl debut this Saturday, July 6, where she’ll be performing selections from “Valve Bone Woe” as well as Pretenders hits with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra! Buy tickets now at hollywoodbowl.com
We are happy to announce that Chrissie will be bringing the Valve Bone Woe experience to @londonjazzfest on Sunday 24th November.
Tickets go on sale this Friday, July 5th. More info at efglondonjazzfestival.org.uk Southbank Centre
Happy to announce Chrissie Hynde will be performing with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble at Volkshaus Zürich in #Switzerland on the 22nd of November!
Tickets will become available 10am CEST time (9am UK time) on Wednesday this week (31st July) from www.ticketcorner.ch
The Valve Bone Woe Ensemble pre- show at The Hollywood Bowl …..
Slam-Dunk !
Chrissie Hynde – You Don’t Know What Love Is
From new album ‘Valve Bone Woe’ out September 6th
“I’m going to keep on finding out the kind of man I am through my music. That’s the one place I can be free. But the reason it’s difficult is because I’m changing all the time.” – Charles Mingus
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Head over to Youtube to hear Chrissie’s cover of Mingus’ legendary composition ‘Meditation on a Pair of Wire Cutters’ which can be heard on new album ‘Valve Bone Woe’- out Sept 6th.
Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble ‘Valve Bone Woe’ is out on the 6th of September 2019.
Live dates and pre-order info at www.chrissiehynde.com
Track: Caroline, No
Last chance to get your tickets for Chrissie’s @hollywoodbowl debut. Chrissie will be performing with the @laphil (LA Philharmonic), showcasing tracks from new jazz-dub album ‘Valve Bone Woe’. Get tickets at hollywoodbowl.com
Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble – QUE RESTE-T-IL DE NOS AMOURS? is now available on all streaming services.
From Chrissie Hynde’s new album ‘Valve Bone Woe’, out September 6th.
Pre-order at http://chrissiehynde.com
Tune in to @gillespeterson on @bbc6music tomorrow 3pm-6pm BST to hear the world exclusive of ‘Meditation on a Pair of Wire Cutters’ from Chrissie Hynde’s new album ‘Valve Bone Woe’ – out September 6th. Head to chrissiehynde.com to pre-order the album and get tickets for @bbc_proms in the park #valvebonewoe
No Return – Chrissie Hynde and the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble
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From new album ‘Valve Bone Woe’. Out September 6th. Listen and Pre-order link in the bio.
Ken Bruce has a world exclusive, first play of ‘How Glad I Am’ this morning on @bbcradio2! Tune in now! ‘How Glad I Am’ is from new album ‘Valve Bone ‘Woe’. Pre-order at www.chrissiehynde.com
How Glad I Am – Chrissie Hynde and the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble
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Available on all streaming services now!
EXTRA DATE ADDED! Due to popular demand, a third night on Saturday 31st July has been added to Chrissie’s stripped-back, socially distanced shows at the @royaloperahouse in London
She’ll be performing tracks from her latest album ‘Standing In The Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan’ as well as some Pretenders favourites
Tickets onsale now along with her four dates at Edinburgh Fringe at the @queens_hall from 22nd to 25th August 2021 through the link in bio
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Chrissie Hynde with the Valve Bone Woe Ensemble – Meditation on a Pair of Wire Cutters is now available on all streaming services.
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The new album ‘Valve Bone Woe’ is out September 9th. Pre-order here: chrissiehynde.com
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Stream link in the bio.
Excerpt from Music Business, 1st August 1964:
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For five years “things have been moving cautiously for me,” said Nancy Wilson last week. The masterpiece of understatement came in the wake of the Capitol songbird’s first smash single ‘How Glad I Am’ (number 14 in the Pop 100 this week) and coverage in Time last week (and Newsweek this week) and a sensationally successful opening recently at Los Angeles’ venerable Coconut Grove.
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“I went into the studio with the deliberate idea of cutting a top 40 kind of hit,” she said. “Actually though, I didn’t sing any differently than I ever do. It’s the material itself that did it and of course the arrangement. As far as my singing goes, I think it’s always been pop singing really. “People have labelled me as jazz. I don’t like that designation. I want to be able to reach everybody, not just the jazz crowd. And besides, who is to say what a jazz singer is anyway? If it’s scat singing, I don’t qualify, because I’ve never scatted, never!”
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Chrissie’s cover of How Glad I Am appears on new album, ‘Valve Bone Woe’, out September 6th. www.chrissiehynde.com
‘Stolen Kisses’ never stoops to become a generation-gap satire like The Graduate, released in America. In France, the May 1968 student demonstrations grew to include factory workers, civil servants, and white-collar professionals.
Listen to Chrissie’s cover of ‘Que Reste-t’il De Nos Amours?’ on all streaming platforms now. New album ‘Valve Bone Woe’ out September 6th.
Few compositions are as genuinely melancholy as ‘You Don’t What Love Is’. Don Raye’s piercing lyrics accentuate the heartbreaking feeling staged by De Paul. You don’t know what love is, he claims, until you’ve learned the meaning of the blues. As one critic puts it, “the lyrics draw out the exquisite pain!”
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The song was never a major hit, but was recorded occasionally in the ‘40s, and then brought into the jazz canon in the 1950’s when it was recorded by John Coltrane, Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone, Freddie Hubbard and more..
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Listen to Chrissies cover of ‘You Don’t Know What Love Is’ on streaming services now!
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‘Valve Bone Woe’ out September 6th
Written by Charles Trenet and Léo Chauliac, ‘Que Reste-t-il De Nos Amours?’ was first recorded by the French female singer Lucienne Boyer in 1942 and was used extensively in the François Truffaut film Stolen Kisses (1968).
Tickets are onsale now for Chrissie’s stripped-back, socially distanced shows at the @royaloperahouse London in July 2021, and @queens_hall Edinburgh in August 2021
Chrissie will be performing tracks from her latest album ‘Standing In The Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan’ as well as some Pretenders favourites, with support from @therails
Grab your tickets to all events through the link in bio
-CHHQ
In mid-September, Mingus announced that he was heading out to the Monterey Jazz Festival in California. Along with other compositions he had written, he planned to present an extended work about integration that he called ”Meditations on a Pair of Wirecutters”. ”It’s fully orchestrated,” he said.
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I wasn’t sure why the expanded band was special, but he was exuberant, and his high spirits were growing higher. He explained that the piece he had written had become a hymn to injustice, that he had dedicated it to black Americans imprisoned behind electric barbed wire in the South.
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”They don’t have ovens and gas faucets in this country yet,” he said grimly as a waitress appeared with a hunk of Gorgonzola and two giant steaks. ”But they have electric fences. So I wrote a prayer about some wire cutters. I wrote a prayer we’d find some scissors and get out!”
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– Extract from NYT article ‘My Mingus’ (2002) by Sue Graham Mingus
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Chrissie Hynde’s cover of Meditation on a Pair of Wirecutters can be heard on new album ‘Valve Bone Woe’ – out September 6th. Pre-order: chrissiehynde.com
