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Jun 12, 2024 · Most recordings lean toward chamber jazz, and the inclusion of concert harp, cello, and vibraphone on Character Pieces certainly adds to that sound. But remember: Though the default mood on a Rebecca Trescher recording is exquisite grace, the Nuremberg-based composer and clarinetist is perfectly capable—and willing—to infuse some heat and ...
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6 days ago · Beginning in New Orleans as dancing music, inventive musicians such as Louis Armstrong, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, and Duke Ellington helped propel jazz into a wide variety of popular music styles. And today, many consider jazz to be the classical music of America.
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Jun 27, 2024 · To mark The Wire’s cover interview feature with cellist and Chicago Jazz String Summit founder Tomeka Reid, Pierre Crépon compiles a playlist of music featuring the cello as a free jazz instrument.
4 days ago · The Straight Horn of Rudi Mahall, obviously, nods to Lacy’s classic album and its iconic artwork. German clarinetist Mahall (of Globe Unity Orchestra, Berlin Contemporary Jazz Orchestra and Die Enttäuschung fame) focuses on a different straight horn, the B-flat clarinet (with a motto by Benny Goodman: “It’s an awful lot of work playing ...
Jul 1, 2024 · Iyer has chosen to write a work for a Pierrot ensemble, which is a quintet comprised of flute, clarinet, violin, cello, and piano. The piece is entitled “Variations on a Theme by Ornette Coleman,” a tribute to the late saxophonist and composer celebrated as an innovator and pioneer in the genre of free jazz.
5 days ago · by Matt Micucci. In 1946, Charlie Parker recorded “Yardbird Suite.” At around the first minute of Take 4 from the Savoy session – arguably the most famous recording of the composition – Parker plays a notable riff that is among the most famous and quoted in jazz history.