Jethro Tull will reissue a newly remastered version of their 2005 album, Aqualung Live, through InsideOut Music/Sony Music on November 21. The live in the studio recording of the band's acclaimed 1971 ...

Jethro Tull’s performance Saturday at the Greek Theatre, just two nights ahead of a stop at the much smaller City National Grove of Anaheim, answered one question and posed another. Ian Anderson’s ...

When Jethro Tull released Aqualung in March 1971, it was perhaps with more of a sense of relief than pride. Their fourth studio album had endured a difficult gestation period – not only had they ...

This is when Martin Barre’s Les Paul comes in, unhurried, laying out the contours of the journey he’s about to take on the fretboard, embedding a riff in the hearts and minds of generations of Tull ...

Martin Barre, the longtime Jethro Tull guitarist, was skeptical when it was suggested he do a 50th anniversary tour for the band’s iconic “Aqualung” album. “I rejected (the idea) immediately,” he said ...

They may belong to an elite group of Sixties survivors, but unlike others of that ilk, Jethro Tull have never attained the special stature accorded others of that ilk. Sure, “Aqualung” remains a ...

In certain non-rock circles, the artist Burton Silverman is something of a superstar. Yet most music aficionados have never heard of him, despite his role in a career-turning moment for Jethro Tull in ...

SURPRISE! BRITISH PROG-rockers were influenced by classical music! And traditional folk music! Did we mention blues and jazz? No one melded those varied influences more deftly than Jethro Tull, which ...

While it's called The Montreux Jazz Festival, Claude Nobs—the man responsible for the festival since its inception—made it clear from the very beginning that it's always been more than just jazz and ...

I remember well playing the hell out of a Jethro Tull 8-track, particularly “Skating Away On The Thin Ice Of A New Day,” until the tape unraveled. Tull didn’t do “Skating Away” at Red Rocks ...

Born April 7, 1943 in Luton, England, Abrahams was the original guitarist for Jethro Tull. He appeared on the band’s 1968 ...