Thankfully, Orphy Robinson, the Jazz multi-instrumentalist who is presenting the great Northern Irish songwriter’s seminal 1968 record ‘Astral Weeks’ at this year’s Love Supreme, falls into the latter category. There’s the route of smoked-out 50-somethings on the pub circuit butchering ‘Brown Eyed Girl’ for the fifteenth weekend in succession, which, admittedly, tends to be the majority – or, there is also another way one that understands the depth of Morrison’s work and treats it with the respect it deserves. Ahead of Orphy Robinson’s jazz interpretation of this iconic 60s album at Love Supreme Jazz Festival, we take a look back at Van Morrison’s ethereal magnum opus.Ĭovering Van Morrison can go one of two ways.
