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| Jazz for aficionados I hope everyone is having a happy and musical Holiday Season. Some thoughts on recent topics:Acman3, "First Song" is a beautiful tune. Time, as is always the case, will determine whether it becomes a standard or not. I think it deserves to be s... | |
| Jazz for aficionados He sure does look different; but who's the dude in the suit and tie? | |
| Jazz for aficionados Is Larry Willis a "big deal" in jazz? Too broad a question. If Willis is a big deal, then what was Bill Evans, Bud Powell, Wynton Kelly, Hank Jones; and what is Herbie Hancock, Chick Corea, Kenny Barron? If we are prepared to call them huge dea... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, three excellent clips! While I have never questioned your taste in music, nor ever thought they needed to "improve" as O-10 suggests they have, I certainly think they have expanded; a perhaps subtle but important distinction. If liking that... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only Learsfool, Alan Civil also recorded Maw's succinctly titled "Chamber Music" for oboe, clarinet, horn, bassoon and piano (1962, Argo, lp). This piece was my first exposure to Maw; very interesting British composer. If I am not mistaken, his sonat... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, a recording studio can be a performance venue just like any other. Some studios present concerts with small audiences and radio station "studios" might broadcast performances taking place in-house. Additionally, a performance may be recorde... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only In my enthusiasm for the piece I forgot about one of the preconditions: The Temirkanov/St. Petersburg is not available on vinyl to the best of my knowledge. Still, a terrific version. | |
| Jazz for aficionados Welcome to the thread, jzzmusician. And thanks for the great clip. I wasn't familiar with this recording; great to hear Cannonball in 7. | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only How is it possible we overlooked this gem?Rachmaninoff "Symphonic Dances". A beautiful and compositionally brilliant work that I have always had a soft spot for due, in part, to the use of the saxophone in a prominent solo role. The go-to audiop... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only I agree that Ives is without a doubt the most quintessentially American composer. He believed, in the classic American tradition of inclusiveness, that "all sound is potential music". One of my favorite examples of Americanness, and of his gen... | |
| Jazz for aficionados O-10, believe it or not, there is an on-line resource for finding out what you ask. Note that, as is often the case, there are two versions of the orchestration for that show. One is for a smaller orchestra which uses one woodwind doubler; the o... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Rok, the reasons for an institution to have an "artist in residence" can range from the magnanimous desire to provide a worthy artist with an environment conducive to the creation of his/her art with no other preconditions, to having a contractua... | |
| Jazz for aficionados Learsfool's excellent comments leave little to add. Re:****If this music was written out, do you think the classical musicians could play it, and make the music sound as though it wasn't faked?****I think the confusion is due to the misuse of the... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only I am not sure what the diversion into the relative merit of pop music has to do with the OP, but (and perhaps against my better judgment), I would like to ask bdp24 for examples of what he means when he states:****'The separation of Classical and ... | |
| Classical Music Compositions from 1940 and later - Vinyl only Good catch Rushton; you're quite right. Love that music, though. |