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Stevie Wonder and Raphael Saadiq
"Stevie Wonder said I needed to do 5 hours a day to get good at piano": Beyoncé producer Raphael Saadiq

By Ben Rogerson Published

“I guess we were sort of playing a game to see who could get the furthest behind without getting off beat,” says Saadiq of the recording of D’Angelo’s Lady

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eno
"He knows very little about an awful lot, but it’s how he applies that knowledge - and it’s down to confidence, too": How Brian Eno became music's ultimate renaissance man

By Andy Jones Published

Producer, collaborator, hard-to-use synth champion, ambient maestro, app developer and chancer Brian Eno is certainly a pioneer, but of what? Well, how about everything?

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Kelly Moran
Kelly Moran: "An important aspect of my work is trying to preserve my own humanity, even if I'm using technology to help me do it"

By Matt Mullen Published

Pianist, producer and Warp Records artist Kelly Moran abandons the prepared piano and extended techniques that defined her early work to duet with a self-playing Yamaha Disklavier on new project Moves in the Field

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Bruce Hornsby
“I wrote it in my garage, in my house in California”: Bruce Hornsby plays an emotive orchestral version of The Way It Is in BBC Radio 2’s Piano Room

By Ben Rogerson Published

Released in 1986 and sampled by Tupac Shakur, the song has become a timeless classic

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Greg Phillinganes
“Barely two days into the new year, I get a call from Steve Lukather”: Greg Phillinganes is back in Toto ahead of their North American tour

By Ben Rogerson Published

Drummer Shannon Forrest is also back in the fold

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Les McCann
Jazz pianist Les McCann, whose work was sampled extensively by hip-hop artists, has died, aged 88

By Ben Rogerson Published

McCann was also one of the first jazz musicians to embrace the use of the synthesizer

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Oblique Strategies
"I was standing crying at the synthesizer, so I pulled out a card and it said 'just carry on'. I did and created something I still like today": How Brian Eno's mysterious Oblique Strategies could help your music production and your life

By Andy Jones Published

"Use fewer notes", "Be dirty" or "Mute and continue": which Strategy will you use in the studio today?

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Jordan Rudess Pianote
“Not what I expected at all”: here’s what happened when Dream Theater's Jordan Rudess was asked to play along to Jay-Z and Alicia Keys’ Empire State of Mind, a song he’d never heard before

By Ben Rogerson Published

“Shall we send it to Alicia and tell her she needs to go back in the studio and add some tracks?”

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James Blake and Brian Eno
“I thought, ‘have I done something heinous?’”: James Blake reminds Brian Eno that he once accused him of using ‘the arsehole chord’ and demands to know what it actually is

By Ben Rogerson Published

“There’s a way of resolving things in songs which always disappoints me,” Eno begins to explain…

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Gary Wright
Synth pioneer Gary Wright, The Dream Weaver, has died at the age of 80

By Ben Rogerson Published

Accomplished keyboard player and composer worked with both George Harrison and Ringo Starr

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