Celebrating Jon Lord The Composer

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It was in 2006 when, once a year, a group of stellar musicians and stars of rock started meeting up in London for a night of live music. The main intent was to raise money for a charity called The Sunflower Jam. At first the rumours about these sessions with Deep Purple, Robert Plant, Brian May and Alice Cooper were too good to be true, to the point that a few thought that they were nothing else than an urban legend. But The Jam as it soon started to be called quickly became a cult night. The Sunflower Jam started as an idea from Jacky Paice, who very often could count on the drumming of her husband Ian. Who would turn down playing with him? Founded in 2006, Jacky was inspired to help those fighting cancer and other diseases after meeting a 16 year old boy named Kevin. In 2012, The Sunflower Jam set up the Jon Lord Fellowship and since then the Fellowship has been funding research into fighting pancreatic cancer the disease that took Jon Lords life. It is in one of the earlier SFJs that Jon Lord played for the last time with his friends with Deep Purple, duetting in a peaceful war of hammonds with Don Airey, who had replaced Lord in Deep Purple when he decided it was enough with a life spent on the road, after a lifetime dedicated to rock and roll, Lord left to concentrate to his first love, classical music & the combination of rock elements in it. Considering the amount of respect, friendship and love expressed on any occasion by anybody who had worked, played or simply met Jon Lord, it is not a surprise that the 2014 Jam would be dedicated totally to his music. The night turned out to be an historical moment in rock music: A full orchestra, a director Paul Mann crazy enough to give wonderful arrangements to a repertoire going back and forth through fifty years of music, many old friends for an unforgettable night. The Albert Hall sold out to the last seat