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Yanni - Within Attraction Live

For nearly 50 years, rock 'n roll was the most popular music in America and in many other parts of the world. There are some common stories about where rock 'n roll came from, but a new book argues that many of those stories are myths.

On songs like Little Red Rooster... this version of the blues didn’t become part of rock music until the 1960s, when the Rolling Stones embraced Delta Blues. And what about the other origin story for rock, that it came from rhythm and blues, or R&B?

Every artist builds on the previous generation’s work... exploring not only the music that came before rock 'n roll, but the music that came before that. There are many examples and some of them go way back.

It may seem like a quantum leap from the suave orchestrations of the Big Band Era to the rowdy sounds of rock 'n roll, but it was really just a hop, skip and jump.


Yanni - Within Attraction Live
  • Released on:March 1, 1994
  • Recorded on: September 25, 1993
  • Recorded in: Athens, Greece

"Yanni continues to use the musical shorthand that he developed as a child, blending jazz, classical, soft rock, and world music to create predominantly instrumental works."

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