After the release of Into the Music and before his next release Common One in 1980, Morrison appeared at the Montreux Jazz Festival with a fleshed-out band. He performed two of the songs from the album, "Troubadours" and "Angeliou". These two songs featured Morrison interacting with the brass section, composed of Pee Wee Ellis and Mark Isham. Erik Hage describes this musical relationship between Morrison and the two brass musicians as "simply stunning". [21] Morrison's 2006-released DVD, Live at Montreux 1980/1974, contained these performances of the two songs.

a b Christgau, Robert (8 October 1979). "Christgau's Consumer Guide". The Village Voice . Retrieved 26 May 2016. Filename K:\Lossless Temp\Van Morrison\Van Morrison - A Period Of Transition - 1977 (1997 Polydor, 53 7457-2)\Van Morrison - A Period Of Transition.wav Hope’s what they send you for a speedy recovery. Or it’s what incumbent presidents warm up like leftovers just before election year. High and plural, it’s what parents forever hold for children, and what’s forever being confounded, disappointed or dashed. Low and singular, it’s the guy next to Crosby in all those Road pictures.

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During the recording of the album, one of the musicians, trumpet player Mark Isham, referred Morrison to Pee Wee Ellis who lived nearby. Morrison brought him in to do the horn charts for "Troubadours", but Ellis remained and worked on the entire album. The band also included Toni Marcus on strings, Robin Williamson on penny whistle, and Ry Cooder playing slide guitar on "Full Force Gale". [2] Music and lyrics [ edit ] Marsh, Dave (1989). "The 1001 Greatest Singles". control.lth.se. Archived from the original on 4 February 2002 . Retrieved 12 August 2008. Filename L:\Lossless Temp\Van Morrison\1997. Van Morrison - The Healing Game (2008 Exile Production, 5308757, E.U.)\Van Morrison - The Healing Game.wav The 29 January 2008 reissued and remastered version of Into the Music contains alternative takes of "Steppin' Out Queen" and "Troubadours".

a b Marsh, Dave (1983). "Van Morrison". In Marsh, Dave; Swenson, John (eds.). The Rolling Stone Record Guide (2nded.). Random House. p. 345-46. ISBN 0394721071. Into the Music was voted the sixth-best album of 1979 in the Pazz & Jop, an annual poll of American critics nationwide; [19] Christgau, the poll's supervisor, ranked it fourth on his own year-end list. [20] In The Rolling Stone Album Guide (1983), Dave Marsh later said the second half's suite of nocturnal ballads was "the greatest side of music Morrison has created since Astral Weeks". [11] Morrison biographer Erik Hage called the record "a fully fleshed-out musical vision that often surrenders to rapturous moments of pure beauty". [2] Aftermath [ edit ] Heylin, Clinton (2003). Can You Feel the Silence? Van Morrison: A New Biography, Chicago Review Press, ISBN 1-55652-542-7Filename K:\Lossless Temp\Van Morrison\Van Morrison - Common One - 1980 (1990 Polydor, 839 600-2)\Van Morrison - Common One.wav

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