The ultimate relish may have been expressed in the nessun dorma, I mean the nobody's gonna fall asleep version of "Lullaby of Birdland". It features Ellington in a piano trio setting, emphasising his own keyboard prowess rather than the big band arrangements more typical of … The piano is actually less in the background here than it often was on full-band dates, and anyone with any sense knows that that is a good thing; Ellington was one of the great piano stylists in jazz history, and if jazz writers have sometimes failed to emphasize this, jazz pianists haven’t. There are two arrangements by the sometime Stan Kenton alumnus Bill Mathieu, and more by the ever estimable now very venerable Gerald Wilson, who sits in with the trumpet section on some titles. But there began the unwritten violence of Die Wende, the peaceful revolution that hides the Oedipal violence of one order killing another. Add to Custom List. A deep reflection on breaking up, Nashville indie rock/Americana outfit Creature Comfort's "Woke Up Drunk" is the most personal track from their new album, Home Team. The brassier Ellington was a development in one direction -- which inspired the very successful English Echoes of Ellington big band venture in the 1990s; the individual performers found in late 1940s Ellington an excellent fit for their combination of personal playing styles. You can view Barnes & Noble’s Privacy Policy. Hot Chip's contribution to the perennial compilation project Late Night Tales is a mixed bag, but its high points are consistent with the band's excellence.
Regular price $199.99 Regular price Sale price $199.99 Sale. As Orchestra Baobab turn 50, their comeback album Specialist in All Styles gets a vinyl reissue. Jesus and Alice Cooper are tighter than you think, but a young Jim White was taught to treat them as polar opposites. Similarly, it is not quite the audiophile dream that a couple of earlier Ellington Columbias are, but it does sound awfully good, especially on this beautiful vinyl issue. Equally, and regardless of how many solo slots he has -- it has to be emphasised that Ellington's playing in ensemble and accompaniment here is at a level of musical attainment scarcely surpassed for creative ingenuity and playing skill. The arrangement manifests mastery of disguise in relation to the original theme. style heavily influenced by Thelonious Monk. Auto Suggestions are available once you type at least 3 letters. His dizzying high-register contribution should underline how modern(ist) a player he always was. 'Trumpet No End" was a highlight of brassy Ellington, an extension of band style as much as repertoire, commissioned from Mary Lou Williams, who was deeply involved in the new music of the time. ... Harry Connick, Jr.'s first Columbia album features him mostly playing stride piano solos in a ... Harry Connick, Jr.'s first Columbia album features him mostly playing stride piano solos in a It's a tremendous outpouring, affirmative to the point of profligacy, and perfectly in keeping with the presiding spirit of the issued recording. It brings to mind Charlie Parker's "Anthropology". One of Wilson's most important jobs here was grafting together into one composition two arrangements of Juan Tizol's "Perdido".
exception to the rule. Telling the tale of the cyclops through the lens of high and low culture, in O'Brother, Where Art Thou? "Perdido" opens with a boppish unison apparently coined for a Clark Terry/ Jimmy Hamilton date. While it is not among the very best of these, it is not far off that mark (as is the trio date that followed, Piano in the Foreground). A fitting time, in short, to crank up the righteously angry vocals of feminist hard rock heavy hitters like L7.
Woody Herman's "Caldonia" had a fantastic passage for four trumpets arranged by Ralph Burns, which so intrigued Stravinsky he transcribed it, thinking there were rather five than four!
Jimmy Blanton died, and the trombone virtuoso Joe "Tricky Sam" Nanton died suddenly in 1946.
It's easy to call any collection The Very Best Of and mislead naïve listeners into There is a trumpet chase, (another 1940s entrant) Ray Nance bops and sells salt peanuts; there's a four-trombone ensemble, Paul Gonsalves on a tenor solo which becomes diminuendo, Ellington's piano in contrast with the full (bigger than ever) band, a rare occasion of Harry Carney's baritone positively roaring, and an ending with a few nods to what Count Basie was doing at the time. Ellington's own roaring train composition "Happy-go-Lucky Local" dates from the brassy later 1940s and was fired up here again fifteen years later; I imagine the normally lyrical altoist Russell Procope found it fun to blare brazenly as the locomotive horn. Copyright © 2020 The Absolute Sound. The most suave bad jokes in history. Piano in the Foreground is an album by American pianist, composer and bandleader Duke Ellington recorded and released on the Columbia label in 1961. Then an eight-track saved his soul and maybe his life. You oughta and gotta try to enjoy your work! The core … In 1961, art dealer Larry Borenstein opened up Preservation Hall in New Orleans. Lunceford shouldn't be forgotten, or confused with the singing and other stuff his band could also do. Fifteen or less years later it underpinned the music here, the stuff initially issued on vinyl supplemented with the rest of the recorded batch from which it was selected, and some odds and ends Columbia taped and filed away and their French subsidiary later issued under titles like Ellington 1957-63. Ray Nance takes a trumpet solo parodying and outdoing Harry "Sweets" Edison just as the whole track tackles Shearing. The core of this CD was issued as a vinyl LP named in parallel with Elington's piano trio masterpiece Piano in the Foreground. But then there's Billy Strayhorn's (yet another) Johnny Hodges feature, called with perfect accuracy "Dreamy Sort of Thing". West London producer WheelUP reached across the pond to Brint Story to bring some rapid-fire American hip-hop to his broken beat revival on "Stay For Long". Compositional and arranging duties were here more than elsewhere -- and very plainly -- in hands other than those of Ellington or his musical alter ego Billy Strayhorn. Over the years the 1930-ish theme of "Rockin' in Rhythm" put on weight, actually muscle. Sometimes there seems no point to it, which cannot be said about music like this. Includes Mathis's romantic duets with Regina Belle, Patti Austin, Deniece Williams, Take 6, Angela Bofill, ... Includes Mathis's romantic duets with Regina Belle, Patti Austin, Deniece Williams, Take 6, Angela Bofill, Kenton's musical character tended toward the brassy; his "Intermission Riff" was characteristic but actually came from Lunceford (Kenton absolutely had to change the title, originally "Yard Dog Mazurka" -- sic!). Flõstate are an electrosoul duo comprised of producer MKSTN and singer-songwriter Avery Florence that create a mesmerizing downtempo number with "Home Ground".