egroj world: September 2024

Sunday, September 22, 2024

John Coltrane • Blue Train [expanded edition]

 



 Review by Lindsay Planer  
Although never formally signed, an oral agreement between John Coltrane and Blue Note Records founder Alfred Lion was indeed honored on Blue Train -- Coltrane's only collection of sides as a principal artist for the venerable label. The disc is packed solid with sonic evidence of Coltrane's innate leadership abilities. He not only addresses the tunes at hand, but also simultaneously reinvents himself as a multifaceted interpreter of both hard bop as well as sensitive balladry -- touching upon all forms in between. The personnel on Blue Train is arguably as impressive as what they're playing. Joining Coltrane (tenor sax) are Lee Morgan (trumpet), Curtis Fuller (trombone), Kenny Drew (piano), Paul Chambers (bass), and Philly Joe Jones (drums). The triple horn arrangements incorporate an additional sonic density that remains a trademark unique to both this band and album. Of particular note is Fuller's even-toned trombone, which bops throughout the title track as well as the frenetic "Moments Notice." Other solos include Paul Chambers' subtly understated riffs on "Blue Train" as well as the high energy and impact from contributions by Lee Morgan and Kenny Drew during "Locomotion." The track likewise features some brief but vital contributions from Philly Joe Jones -- whose efforts throughout the record stand among his personal best. Of the five sides that comprise the original Blue Train, the Jerome Kern/Johnny Mercer ballad "I'm Old Fashioned" is the only standard; in terms of unadulterated sentiment, this version is arguably untouchable. Fuller's rich tones and Drew's tastefully executed solos cleanly wrap around Jones' steadily languid rhythms. Without reservation, Blue Train can easily be considered in and among the most important and influential entries not only of John Coltrane's career, but of the entire genre of jazz music as well. [In 2003, an expanded edition of Blue Train was released, boasting marginally better sound than previous issues, plus the alternate takes issued on the 1997 version. It failed, however, to include another feature of the 1997 Ultimate Blue Train release, "At Least Listen," an interactive CD-ROM program featuring video clips and interview clips with Fuller circa 1995, as well as many brilliant photographs taken during the recording sessions.]
https://www.allmusic.com/album/release/blue-train-expanded-edition--mr0000275832

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 Reseña de Lindsay Planer  
Aunque nunca se firmó formalmente, un acuerdo verbal entre John Coltrane y el fundador de Blue Note Records, Alfred Lion, se cumplió en Blue Train, la única colección de caras de Coltrane como artista principal del venerable sello. El disco está repleto de pruebas sonoras de la innata capacidad de liderazgo de Coltrane. No sólo aborda los temas en cuestión, sino que también se reinventa a sí mismo como intérprete polifacético tanto del hard bop como de la balada sensible, tocando todas las formas intermedias. El personal de Blue Train es posiblemente tan impresionante como lo que tocan. Junto a Coltrane (saxo tenor) están Lee Morgan (trompeta), Curtis Fuller (trombón), Kenny Drew (piano), Paul Chambers (bajo) y Philly Joe Jones (batería). Los arreglos de triple trompa incorporan una densidad sonora adicional que sigue siendo una marca registrada exclusiva tanto de esta banda como del álbum. Destaca el trombón de Fuller, de tono uniforme, que hace bops a lo largo de la canción que da título al disco, así como en la frenética "Moments Notice". Otros solos son los sutilmente discretos riffs de Paul Chambers en "Blue Train", así como la gran energía e impacto de las contribuciones de Lee Morgan y Kenny Drew durante "Locomotion". La pista también cuenta con algunas contribuciones breves pero vitales de Philly Joe Jones, cuyos esfuerzos a lo largo del disco se encuentran entre sus mejores momentos personales. De las cinco caras que componen el Blue Train original, la balada de Jerome Kern/Johnny Mercer "I'm Old Fashioned" es el único estándar; en términos de sentimiento sin adulterar, esta versión es posiblemente intocable. Los ricos tonos de Fuller y los solos de Drew, ejecutados con buen gusto, envuelven limpiamente los ritmos constantemente lánguidos de Jones. Sin reservas, Blue Train puede considerarse fácilmente en y entre las entradas más importantes e influyentes no sólo de la carrera de John Coltrane, sino también de todo el género de la música de jazz. [En 2003, se publicó una edición ampliada de Blue Train, con un sonido ligeramente mejor que el de las ediciones anteriores, además de las tomas alternativas publicadas en la versión de 1997. Sin embargo, no incluía otra de las características de la edición Ultimate Blue Train de 1997, "At Least Listen", un programa interactivo en CD-ROM que presentaba videoclips y entrevistas con Fuller en torno a 1995, así como muchas fotografías brillantes tomadas durante las sesiones de grabación].
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Saturday, September 21, 2024

VA • Blue Note Hits! Vol 1

 

 



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Red Garland • Red Garland Revisited!



Review by Scott Yanow
For pianist Red Garland's fourth recording as a leader, he's teamed up with bassist Paul Chambers, drummer Art Taylor, and (on "Four" and "Walkin'") guest guitarist Kenny Burrell. Garland plays in his distinctive style consistently throughout Red Garland Revisited!. Highlights include "Billy Boy" (which was adapted from Ahmad Jamal's rendition), "I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over," "It Could Happen to You," and two Burrell tracks. Predictably excellent music; Garland recorded more than 20 additional albums within the next five years.
https://www.allmusic.com/album/red-garland-revisited%21-mw0000041281


Artist Biography
Largely self-taught, Red Garland established a reputation as a solid post-bop mainstream player in the 50s, playing with many of the most famous jazz musicians of the time. He achieved international fame in the late 50s as part of the Miles Davis quintet. He went on to lead his own groups, but then retired in 1968, a victim the declining demand for jazz. He reemerged in 1976 and performed regularly until his death in 1984.

Garland was known for his eloquent middle-of-the-road style. A fertile, often moving improvisor, he developed a characteristic block chord sound by combining octaves with a fifth in the middle in the right hand over left-hand comp (accompanying) chords. The style has been much imitated.

William M. “Red” Garland was born March 13, 1923, in Dallas, Texas. He came from a non-musical family: his father was an elevator operator at the First National Bank. His first instrument was clarinet and studied alto saxophone with Buster Smith, a well-known Texas saxophonist, who was a strong influence on Charlie Parker. Garland only started on piano in 1941, when he was 18, and in the Army. Stationed at Fort Huachuca, Arizona, he heard a pianist named John Lewis play night after night in the recreation room-this was not the famous John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Finally giving in to his fascination with the instrument, Garland asked the pianist to teach him. Since he had learned to read music under Buster Smith he didn't have to start from zero. Garland his entire days practicing and made rapid progress. At that time he was also a semi-professional prizefighter, a welterweight, and once lost to Sugar Ray Robinson. There was a time when he had to decide whether to follow boxing or music as a career, and although he chose music, he was left with a broken knuckle as a souvenir of his road not taken.

Garland also studied with another Army pianist, Lee Barnes. By the time Garland left the service, he was learning on his own from recordings. His main influences at that time were Count Basie and Nat Cole, from whom he drew lessons in touch, phrasing and conception. He also learned from James P. Johnson, Luckey Roberts, Teddy Wilson, Bud Powell and Art Tatum. Tatum was his favorite, and he knew he cold never play like he could.

In 1945 Garland played his first gig on piano with Fort Worth tenor player Bill Blocker. It was less than five years after he had begun studying piano. Then traditional jazz trumpeter Oran “Hot Lips” Page came through town. Word spread around that Page's pianist had quit and he was looking for a new one. Garland had intended to attend the dance Page was playing at anyway, so after his gig he stopped by. Four pianists, including Garland, played for Page that night, right out of Page's book of arrangements. Garland went home to bed after the dance and thought no more about it.

Then at about five in the morning there was a loud knocking at the door. Garland's mother thought it had to be the police and suspected her son of having done something wrong. But it was Page and Garland's old teacher Buster Smith.

“You're the guy who sat in with me tonight?” Page said. “Well, I need you, man. Come on, throw somethin' in a bag and let's go.”

Garland refused at first, thinking he wasn't ready, but Page and Smith talked him into it. Garland was on the road. He enjoyed working with Page, admiring his strength and versatility. He stayed with Page for several months until the tour ended in New York. There Garland decided to look for work, and found it in small clubs. Art Blakey heard him and recommended him to singer/bandleader Billy Eckstine, who was always looking for cutting edge musicians for his big band. At various times he employed Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Stonny Stitt and Miles Davis. Eckstine accepted Blakey's recommendation, and Garland was hired, touring on Eckstine's bus for six weeks. It turned out to be a new chapter in his musical education.

Back in New York, Garland concluded his stay in Eckstine's band to join with tenorman Eddie “Lockjaw” Davis playing in a variety of clubs and with a variety of bands. One night, while playing at Minton's Bud Powell came in and insisted Garland yield the piano bench to him. When Powell played, Garland was so overwhelmed he gave him the gig. But then he started visiting Powell frequently at his home and learning from him. They became friends, and Powell became Garland's most important influence-after Art Tatum, whom Garland put in the superhuman category. He received some coaching from Tatum too. One night at Luckey's Rendezvous, a piano-only club owned by Luckey Roberts, Tatum told him to stop forcing the piano, to let it “play itself” and gave him some arpeggios to work on.

In 1947 Garland began a two-year stint at the Blue Note club in Philadelphia, the main venue for modern jazz in that city. While playing in the house rhythm section there he accompanied Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Bill Harris, Flip Phillips, Charlie Ventura and Bennie Green. In 1949 jazz legends tenor saxophonist Coleman Hawkins and trumpeter Roy Eldridge hired him for their band. This turned out to be the key group for Garland, since after that word began to spread that he was an exceptional player. Lester Young and the Ben Webster hired him, and soon he was receiving more calls from famous players than he could handle.

By the early 50s Garland's reputation with the public was strong enough for him to get work as leader of a trio. Then in 1953 he received his first call from Miles Davis, who was trying to form a group of his own for the first time. Davis didn't succeed that time, so Garland stayed with his trio and with Lester Young. Garland made one recording session with Davis and drummer Philly Joe Jones in mid-1955, while still with Young.

Finally, in October of 1955 Davis called Garland again and said he was ready to form a quintet. He had originally planned to include Sonny Rollins and Max Roach, but they now had other commitments. Garland suggested Philly Joe Jones on drums and a young tenor player who was based at the time in Philadelphia: John Coltrane. Miles already knew of him, since Coltrane had been working with Dizzy Gillespie and Johnny Hodges. Miles added Paul Chambers on bass. The group opened at Anchor's Inn in Baltimore.

It was a perfectly balanced rhythm section, with Garland tending to play conservatively, acting as anchor for the extravagant centrifugal playing styles of Coltrane, Jones Davis and Chambers. He stayed with Davis until 1958, when according to Davis, Garland got at mad at Davis when Davis was trying to direct him during a recording session with Cannonball Adderley. After that, Davis's music went in a more modal direction, and he replaced Garland with Bill Evans.

Garland never got into modal jazz. He stayed playing primarily standards, show tunes and blues with occasional jazz tunes from the bebop era. He didn't like the direction Miles or Coltrane went in after he left Miles's band.

Garland continued leading his own trio, but the jazz scene was contracting, and he didn't feel up to fighting against the times. So in 1968 when his mother died, he returned to Dallas, where he retired from performing until 1976. Then he began playing locally in Dallas at a club called, appropriately enough, the Recovery Room. In 1978 he made a comeback at the more nationally visible Keystone Corner in San Francisco, his first gig outside Dallas in 15 years. He had been sheperded out of retirement by the famous producer Orin Keepnews.

Garland continued a modest performing schedule up until his death by heart attack at age 60, April 23, 1984. Style Red Garland became widely known for his distinctive block chord approach to melody playing, which has been widely imitated. In a block chord style, both hands sound on every note of the melody. There is no separation between right melody and left hand comping (accompanying). It is a device which produces a lot of sound out of the piano, so is ideally suited as the climax of a solo. Other pianists known for their block chords include George Shearing, whose block chords span an octave with the melody on top and bottom, and Bill Evans, who tended to drop the second note from the top of Shearing's formation down one octave, spreading out the voicing into what became known as the “drop 2” technique.

Garland's block chords are at the same time easier to execute and produce more sound out of the piano, although they lack the harmonic subtlety of Evans' approach. In Garland's style the right hand plays octaves and fifths over standard modern jazz voicings in the left, with both hands sounding on every note of the melody. Garland maintained an absolute paralellism of his perfect fifth above the bottom melody note, and the resulting dissonances (the fifth above the seventh is the #4) came to characterize his style. Although this was the most characteristic thing Garland played, it certainly wasn't the only thing.

His impeccable rhythm fueled perfect single-note melodic lines. In particular he was a master at extracting a special poignancy from minor blues. An economical player who chose his notes wisely, he was also an adept at spontaneous counterpoint, and he knew how to build a tune slowly, to draw the audience in gradually.

New York Times critic Robert Palmer described his playing in a 1979 review:
One often gets the impression that he is playing in perspective, furnishing foreground, middle and background as a painter might. A prominent phrase in the piano's middle register s answered by a distant tinkling , and suddenly everything is overwhelmed by a series of hammered ascending chords. A perfect little exercise in counterpoint suddenly emerges from the bridge of a popular song, continues without seeming to heed the transition back to the main verse, and modestly resolved itself in its own sweet time. One could listen to this sort of playing all night, and perhaps one should.
Source: Joel Simpson
https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/redgarland

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Reseña de Scott Yanow
Para la cuarta grabación del pianista Red Garland como líder, se ha unido al bajista Paul Chambers, al baterista Art Taylor y al guitarrista invitado Kenny Burrell (en "Four" y "Walkin'"). Garland toca en su estilo distintivo consistentemente a través de Red Garland Revisited! Entre lo más destacado se encuentran "Billy Boy" (adaptado de la interpretación de Ahmad Jamal), "I'm Afraid the Masquerade Is Over", "It Could Happen to You" y dos temas de Burrell. Música previsiblemente excelente; Garland grabó más de 20 álbumes adicionales en los próximos cinco años.
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Biografía del artista
En gran parte autodidacta, Red Garland se forjó una reputación como un sólido jugador de post-bop en los años 50, tocando con muchos de los músicos de jazz más famosos de la época. Alcanzó fama internacional a finales de los años 50 como parte del quinteto de Miles Davis. Luego dirigió sus propios grupos, pero se retiró en 1968, víctima de la disminución de la demanda de jazz. Resurgió en 1976 y actuó regularmente hasta su muerte en 1984.

Garland era conocido por su elocuente estilo middle-of-the-road. Fértil y a menudo conmovedor improvisador, desarrolló un característico sonido de acordes de bloque combinando octavas con una quinta en el centro en la mano derecha sobre acordes de compás a la izquierda (acompañantes). El estilo ha sido muy imitado.

William M. "Red" Garland nació el 13 de marzo de 1923 en Dallas, Texas. Venía de una familia no musical: su padre era operador de ascensores en el First National Bank. Su primer instrumento fue el clarinete y estudió saxofón alto con Buster Smith, un conocido saxofonista de Texas, que fue una gran influencia para Charlie Parker. Garland comenzó a trabajar con el piano en 1941, cuando tenía 18 años, y en el Ejército. Estacionado en Fort Huachuca, Arizona, escuchó tocar noche tras noche a un pianista llamado John Lewis en la sala de recreación, que no era el famoso John Lewis del Modern Jazz Quartet. Finalmente, cediendo a su fascinación por el instrumento, Garland pidió al pianista que le enseñara. Como había aprendido a leer música con Buster Smith, no tuvo que empezar de cero. Guirnalda sus días enteros practicando y progresando rápidamente. En ese momento también era un boxeador semiprofesional, un peso welter, y una vez perdió contra Sugar Ray Robinson. Hubo un tiempo en que tuvo que decidir si seguir el boxeo o la música como carrera, y aunque eligió la música, se quedó con un nudillo roto como recuerdo de su camino no tomado.

Garland también estudió con otro pianista del Ejército, Lee Barnes. Para cuando Garland dejó el servicio, estaba aprendiendo por su cuenta de las grabaciones. Sus principales influencias en esa época fueron Count Basie y Nat Cole, de los que sacó lecciones de tacto, fraseo y concepción. También aprendió de James P. Johnson, Luckey Roberts, Teddy Wilson, Bud Powell y Art Tatum. Tatum era su favorito, y sabía que nunca tocaba tan frío como podía.

En 1945 Garland tocó su primer concierto al piano con el tenor de Fort Worth Bill Blocker. Fue menos de cinco años después de haber comenzado a estudiar piano. Luego, el trompetista de jazz tradicional Oran "Hot Lips" Page llegó a la ciudad. Se corrió la voz de que el pianista de Page había renunciado y estaba buscando uno nuevo. Garland tenía la intención de asistir al baile en el que Page estaba tocando de todos modos, así que después de su concierto pasó por aquí. Cuatro pianistas, incluyendo a Garland, tocaron para Page esa noche, de acuerdo con el libro de arreglos de Page. Garland se fue a casa a la cama después del baile y no pensó más en ello.

Luego, a eso de las cinco de la mañana, alguien llamó a la puerta en voz alta. La madre de Garland pensó que tenía que ser la policía y sospechó que su hijo había hecho algo malo. Pero era el antiguo profesor de Page y Garland, Buster Smith.

"¿Tú eres el tipo que se sentó conmigo esta noche?" Page dijo. "Bueno, te necesito, hombre. Vamos, pon algo en una bolsa y vámonos".

Garland se negó al principio, pensando que no estaba listo, pero Page y Smith lo convencieron. Garland estaba en la carretera. Disfrutaba trabajando con Page, admirando su fuerza y versatilidad. Permaneció con Page durante varios meses hasta que la gira terminó en Nueva York. Allí Garland decidió buscar trabajo y lo encontró en clubes pequeños. Art Blakey lo escuchó y lo recomendó al cantante y líder de banda Billy Eckstine, que siempre estaba buscando músicos de vanguardia para su big band. En varias ocasiones empleó a Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Fats Navarro, Dexter Gordon, Gene Ammons, Stonny Stitt y Miles Davis. Eckstine aceptó la recomendación de Blakey, y Garland fue contratado, viajando en el autobús de Eckstine durante seis semanas. Resultó ser un nuevo capítulo en su educación musical.

De vuelta en Nueva York, Garland concluyó su estancia en la banda de Eckstine para unirse al teniente Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis tocando en una variedad de clubes y con una variedad de bandas. Una noche, mientras tocaba en Minton's Bud Powell entró e insistió en que Garland le cediera el banco del piano. Cuando Powell tocó, Garland estaba tan abrumado que le dio el trabajo. Pero luego comenzó a visitar a Powell con frecuencia en su casa y a aprender de él. Se hicieron amigos, y Powell se convirtió en la influencia más importante de Garland, después de Art Tatum, a quien Garland puso en la categoría sobrehumana. También recibió entrenamiento de Tatum. Una noche en Luckey's Rendezvous, un club de sólo piano propiedad de Luckey Roberts, Tatum le dijo que dejara de forzar al piano, que lo dejara "tocar solo" y le dio algunos arpegios para que trabajara.

En 1947, Garland comenzó una temporada de dos años en el club Blue Note de Filadelfia, el principal centro de jazz moderno de esa ciudad. Mientras tocaba en la sección de ritmo house acompañó a Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Fats Navarro, Bill Harris, Flip Phillips, Charlie Ventura y Bennie Green. En 1949 las leyendas del jazz, el saxofonista Coleman Hawkins y el trompetista Roy Eldridge lo contrataron para su banda. Este resultó ser el grupo clave para Garland, ya que después se corrió la voz de que era un jugador excepcional. Lester Young y el Ben Webster lo contrataron, y pronto recibió más llamadas de jugadores famosos de las que podía manejar.

A principios de los años 50 la reputación de Garland con el público era lo suficientemente fuerte como para que consiguiera trabajo como líder de un trío. Luego, en 1953, recibió su primera llamada de Miles Davis, que intentaba formar un grupo propio por primera vez. Davis no tuvo éxito esa vez, así que Garland se quedó con su trío y con Lester Young. Garland hizo una sesión de grabación con Davis y el baterista Philly Joe Jones a mediados de 1955, mientras aún estaba con Young.

Finalmente, en octubre de 1955 Davis llamó de nuevo a Garland y dijo que estaba listo para formar un quinteto. Originalmente había planeado incluir a Sonny Rollins y Max Roach, pero ahora tenían otros compromisos. Garland sugirió a Philly Joe Jones a la batería y a un joven tenor que estaba basado en Filadelfia en ese momento: John Coltrane. Miles ya lo conocía, ya que Coltrane había estado trabajando con Dizzy Gillespie y Johnny Hodges. Miles añadió a Paul Chambers en el bajo. El grupo abrió sus puertas en Anchor's Inn en Baltimore.

Era una sección rítmica perfectamente equilibrada, con Garland tendiendo a tocar de forma conservadora, actuando como ancla para los extravagantes estilos de interpretación centrífuga de Coltrane, Jones Davis y Chambers. Permaneció con Davis hasta 1958, cuando según Davis, Garland se enojó con Davis cuando Davis estaba tratando de dirigirlo durante una sesión de grabación con Cannonball Adderley. Después de eso, la música de Davis fue en una dirección más modal, y reemplazó a Garland con Bill Evans.

Garland nunca se metió en el jazz modal. Permaneció tocando principalmente standards, temas de show y blues con ocasionales temas de jazz de la era del bebop. No le gustó la dirección en la que Miles o Coltrane fueron después de dejar la banda de Miles.

Garland continuó liderando su propio trío, pero la escena jazzística se contrajo, y no se sintió capaz de luchar contra los tiempos. Así que en 1968, cuando murió su madre, regresó a Dallas, donde se retiró de la actuación hasta 1976. Luego comenzó a tocar localmente en Dallas en un club llamado, apropiadamente, la Sala de Recuperación. En 1978 regresó al Keystone Corner de San Francisco, su primer concierto fuera de Dallas en 15 años. El famoso productor Orin Keepnews lo había dejado fuera de la jubilación.

Garland continuó con un modesto programa de presentaciones hasta su muerte por ataque cardíaco a los 60 años, el 23 de abril de 1984. Style Red Garland se hizo ampliamente conocido por su característico enfoque de acordes de bloque en la interpretación de melodías, que ha sido ampliamente imitado. En un estilo de acorde de bloque, ambas manos suenan en cada nota de la melodía. No hay separación entre la melodía derecha y la compilación de la mano izquierda (acompañante). Es un dispositivo que produce mucho sonido a partir del piano, por lo que es ideal para el clímax de un solo. Otros pianistas conocidos por sus acordes de bloque son George Shearing, cuyos acordes de bloque abarcan una octava con la melodía en la parte superior e inferior, y Bill Evans, que tendía a bajar una octava la segunda nota desde la parte superior de la formación de Shearing, extendiendo la voz a lo que se conoció como la técnica de la "gota 2".

Los acordes de bloque de Garland son al mismo tiempo más fáciles de ejecutar y producen más sonido fuera del piano, aunque carecen de la sutileza armónica del enfoque de Evans. En el estilo de Garland, la mano derecha toca octavas y quintas sobre las voces estándar del jazz moderno en la izquierda, con ambas manos sonando en cada nota de la melodía. Garland mantuvo un paralelismo absoluto de su quinta perfecta por encima de la nota melódica inferior, y las disonancias resultantes (la quinta por encima de la séptima es la #4) llegaron a caracterizar su estilo. Aunque esto era lo más característico de Garland, no era lo único.

Su ritmo impecable alimentaba las líneas melódicas perfectas de una sola nota. En particular, fue un maestro en la extracción de una conmovedora especial del blues menor. Tocador económico que elegía bien sus notas, era también un experto en el contrapunto espontáneo, y sabía cómo construir una melodía lentamente, para atraer a la audiencia poco a poco.

El crítico del New York Times Robert Palmer describió su interpretación en una reseña de 1979:
A menudo uno tiene la impresión de que está jugando en perspectiva, amueblando el primer plano, el medio y el fondo como lo haría un pintor. Una frase prominente en el registro medio del piano es contestada por un lejano tintineo, y de repente todo se ve abrumado por una serie de acordes ascendentes martillados. Un pequeño ejercicio perfecto de contrapunto emerge repentinamente del puente de una canción popular, continúa sin parecer prestar atención a la transición de vuelta al verso principal, y modestamente se resuelve en su propio y dulce tiempo. Uno podría escuchar este tipo de música toda la noche, y tal vez debería hacerlo.
Fuente: Joel Simpson
https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/redgarland
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Dick Hyman • The Unforgettable Sound Of The Dick Hyman Trio

 


Richard "Dick" Hyman (born March 8, 1927, New York City) is an American jazz pianist/keyboardist and composer, best known for his versatility with jazz piano styles. Over a 50-year career, he has functioned as a pianist, organist, arranger, music director, and, increasingly, as a composer. His versatility in all of these areas has resulted in well over 100 albums recorded under his own name and many more in support of other artists.
 
 
Richard "Dick" Hyman (nacido el 8 de marzo de 1927 en la ciudad de Nueva York) es un pianista, tecladista y compositor de jazz estadounidense, mejor conocido por su versatilidad con los estilos de piano de jazz. A lo largo de 50 años de carrera, se ha desempeñado como pianista, organista, arreglista, director musical y, cada vez más, como compositor. Su versatilidad en todas estas áreas ha resultado en más de 100 álbumes grabados bajo su propio nombre y muchos más en apoyo de otros artistas.


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Wes Montgomery • Wes's Best The Best of Wes Montgomery on Resonance



Resonance Records, the leading archival jazz specialists, continues their recently inaugurated series of samplers, the Takao Fujioka Collection, on June 21 with a pair of packages devoted to material from their bestselling, award-winning and previously unreleased recordings by pianist Bill Evans and guitarist Wes Montgomery.

Wes’s Best: The Best of Wes Montgomery on Resonance draws from Echoes of Indiana Avenue (2012); In the Beginning (2015); One Night in Indy (2016); Smokin’ in Seattle (2017); and Back on Indiana Avenue (2019). A complete track listing for both packages appears below.  Back on Indiana Avenue was issued for the first time as limited edition two-LP set on Record Store Day 2019, and 3 tracks from the album appear on Wes’s Best.

Montgomery’s Smokin’ in Seattle, culled from 1966 broadcast dates with pianist Wynton Kelly’s trio, was recorded less than a year after 1965’s classic Smokin’ at the Half Note and received similar kudos from DownBeat, JazzTimes, and NPR.

All of Resonance’s albums devoted to Evans and Montgomery have been released with the full cooperation of the musicians’ estates. Zev Feldman, Resonance co-president and producer, says, “It’s been an honor to work so closely with Evan and Robert of the Evans and Montgomery estates over the course of the last 9 years to bring these incredible, unearthed treasures to light. These artists are really in the bedrock of our label, and it’s been remarkable to see the kind of excitement our releases generate in the press and with our fans.”

Wes Montgomery’s son Robert writes in Wes’s Best, “It’s been a thrill to participate with Resonance Records these last nine years in getting my father’s music out to the world… I appreciate the care Resonance always takes to honor my father’s memory with each release — including interviews and essays about the music and finding rare pictures.”

Like Resonance’s first two compilations in the Takao Fujioka Collection – Sing a Song of Jazz: The Best of Vocal Jazz on Resonance and Jazz Piano Panorama: The Best of Piano Jazz on Resonance, released in May – the newly released Evans and Montgomery samplers features the eye-catching artwork and design of Fujioka, editor of the Japanese jazz journal Way Out West; he supplied the cover art for Resonance’s 2016 Stan Getz release Moments in Time.
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Resonance Records, los principales especialistas en jazz de archivo, continúa su serie de samplers recientemente inaugurada, la Takao Fujioka Collection, el 21 de junio con un par de paquetes dedicados al material de sus grabaciones más vendidas, premiadas e inéditas por el pianista Bill Evans y el guitarrista Wes Montgomery.

Wes's Best: The Best of Wes Montgomery on Resonance se basa en Echoes of Indiana Avenue (2012); In the Beginning (2015); One Night in Indy (2016); Smokin' in Seattle (2017); y Back on Indiana Avenue (2019). A continuación se muestra una lista completa de las canciones de ambos paquetes.  Back on Indiana Avenue fue lanzado por primera vez como una edición limitada de dos LPs en el Día de la Tienda de Récords 2019, y 3 temas del álbum aparecen en Wes's Best.

Montgomery's Smokin' en Seattle, seleccionado a partir de 1966 con el trío del pianista Wynton Kelly, fue grabado menos de un año después del clásico Smokin' at the Half Note de 1965 y recibió elogios similares de DownBeat, JazzTimes y NPR.

Todos los álbumes de Resonance dedicados a Evans y Montgomery han sido editados con la plena colaboración de los patrimonios de los músicos. Zev Feldman, copresidente y productor de Resonance, dice: "Ha sido un honor trabajar tan estrechamente con Evan y Robert de las fincas de Evans y Montgomery a lo largo de los últimos 9 años para sacar a la luz estos increíbles tesoros desenterrados. Estos artistas están realmente en la base de nuestro sello, y ha sido notable ver el tipo de emoción que nuestros lanzamientos generan en la prensa y con nuestros fans".

El hijo de Wes Montgomery, Robert, escribe en Wes's Best: "Ha sido emocionante participar con Resonance Records estos últimos nueve años en llevar la música de mi padre al mundo... Aprecio el cuidado que Resonance siempre tiene para honrar la memoria de mi padre con cada lanzamiento - incluyendo entrevistas y ensayos sobre la música y la búsqueda de imágenes raras".

Como las dos primeras compilaciones de Resonance en la colección Takao Fujioka - Sing a Song of Jazz: The Best of Vocal Jazz on Resonance y Jazz Piano Panorama: The Best of Piano Jazz on Resonance, publicado en mayo - el recién lanzado Evans y Montgomery samplers presenta la llamativa obra de arte y diseño de Fujioka, editor de la revista japonesa de jazz Way Out West; él suministró el arte de la portada para el lanzamiento de Moments in Time de Resonance en 2016 de Stan Getz.


Johnny Smith • The Man With The Blue Guitar



Guitarist Johnny Smith's career spans the decades of the 1940's through the 1990's. From the very beginning of his musical career he influenced the playing of other guitarists. In fact, many mention Smith as a major influence on their playing. The major guitar builders as Guild, Gibson, Benedetto, and the Heritage all have their signature Johnny Smith high end models as a tribute to this master.

John Henry Smith, Jr. was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1922 and was only five years old when he became fascinated with the guitar. His father played five-string banjo but guitar was John's first and lasting love. Initially he was frustrated by the lack of a guitar teacher or instruction manuals: determined to master the instrument, he taught himself to play. Many outstanding and individual jazz soloists have fallen back on the empirical method for the same reason as Smith and emerged with wholly distinctive sounds. In 1935 the Smith family moved to Portland, Maine: Johnny was 13 and good enough to play in local bands.

In 1942 he joined the USAAF (he was already a student pilot) and ended up in a band which needed a cornet player rather than a guitarist. In six months he had learned the cornet well enough to be given the position of first cornetist. After his discharge from the Air Force in 1946 he went back to Portland to play both guitar and trumpet on local radio as well as playing in clubs at night, but the pay was never very good. He went to New York to work as an arranger at NBC and in 1947 he became a member of the NBC orchestra. For eight years he worked with the orchestra as guitarist, trumpeter, arranger and composer.

Although he had been greatly influenced by Django Reinhardt and Charlie Christian at the outset (he learned Django's solos from record and actually met the Gypsy guitarist when he came to the United States in 1946) Johnny did not consider himself to be a jazz musician. Nevertheless, he made his first record as leader in March 1952, in the company of Stan Getz, Eddie Safranski, Sanford Gold and Don Lamond. One title from that date, “Moonlight in Vermont,” was a turning point in Smith's career despite its short duration. “Vermont” was made for the Royal Roost label (frequently abbreviated to Roost Records) and the company signed Smith to a long-term contract during which time he produced around 20 albums. Roost was later absorbed by Roulette which reissued several of Johnny's LPs. Most of the albums featured solo guitar or a trio; two backed Smith with strings playing arrangements the guitarist wrote himself. There was a great appeal to Smith's graceful, melodic treatment of superior tunes. Not only the record-buying public but hundreds of guitarists found the music entrancing. The dexterous fingering, the perfection of manner in which he ran chords and arpeggios, all contributed to the acclaim for Johnny's work.

During his tenure at Roost Records, he produced a long list of significant recordings that include the great quartet recordings: “The Johnny Smith Quartet,” and “The Sound of The Johnny Smith Guitar” among others. Also, during this period he made the “Man With The Blue Guitar.” This album, unusual for its time, has probably been transcribed more than any other Johnny Smith recording. Then there was the production “Annotations of The Muses,” on which Johnny Smith displays everything that made him a great musician and an extraordinary guitar player.

Johnny Smith retired from the jazz scene in the 1960's to Colorado where he opened a music store. He continued to play in local nightclubs and made a recording with some local musicians “Reminiscing,” that showed he had lost none of the signature Johnny Smith style or technique. His last recorded work was the Concord Records CD “Legends,” in 1994.

The Johnny Smith Guitars:

In 1955, after discussions with the Guild Guitar Company, Smith designed a guitar and sent the drawings and specifications to the company. The Guild designers modified it (to Smith's dissatisfaction), and manufactured the resulting guitar as the Guild Johnny Smith Award.

In 1961, Gibson, went to meet the retired Smith at his home in Colorado Springs. Smith designed the guitar he wanted built. The design was accepted by Gibson with a few minor cosmetic changes which were acceptable to Smith. Gibson began production of the resulting Gibson Johnny Smith model that year. Guild continued to produce their Johnny Smith guitar under the model name Guild Artist Award.

When Gibson moved its manufacturing facilities from Kalamazoo, Michigan to Nashville, Tennessee, several of their managers and artisans chose to stay behind. Many of these ex-employees formed Heritage Guitars and bought the old Kalamazoo factory from Gibson. Given a choice between Gibson and Heritage building the guitar that bore his name, Smith chose to stay with the old artisans at the old location under new ownership. The Heritage Johnny Smith model was introduced in 1989. Like Guild before them, Gibson continued to manufacture their version of the Johnny Smith design with a new name: the Gibson LeGrand.

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, of which Guild Guitars was a subsidiary, asked Smith if he would be willing to return his endorsement to the Guild Artist Award. Familiar with Schultz's management, and knowing that the construction would be supervised by master luthier Bob Benedetto, Smith agreed. The Guild Johnny Smith Award by Benedetto was available through Guild dealers until early 2006 when Benedetto left Fender.
Source: James Nadal
https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/johnnysmith

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La carrera del guitarrista Johnny Smith abarca las décadas de 1940 a 1990. Desde el principio de su carrera musical influyó en la interpretación de otros guitarristas. De hecho, muchos mencionan a Smith como una gran influencia en su juego. Los principales constructores de guitarras como Guild, Gibson, Benedetto y Heritage tienen sus modelos de gama alta Johnny Smith como tributo a este maestro.

John Henry Smith, Jr. nació en Birmingham, Alabama en 1922 y tenía sólo cinco años cuando se fascinó con la guitarra. Su padre tocaba el banjo de cinco cuerdas, pero la guitarra fue el primer y duradero amor de John. Al principio se sintió frustrado por la falta de un profesor de guitarra o de manuales de instrucciones: decidido a dominar el instrumento, aprendió a tocarlo él mismo. Muchos solistas de jazz sobresalientes e individuales han recurrido al método empírico por la misma razón que Smith y han surgido con sonidos totalmente distintivos. En 1935 la familia Smith se mudó a Portland, Maine: Johnny tenía 13 años y era lo suficientemente bueno para tocar en bandas locales.

En 1942 se unió a la USAAF (ya era un estudiante de pilotos) y terminó en una banda que necesitaba un corneta en lugar de un guitarrista. En seis meses había aprendido la corneta lo suficientemente bien como para que le dieran la posición de primer cornetista. Después de ser dado de baja de la Fuerza Aérea en 1946, regresó a Portland para tocar la guitarra y la trompeta en la radio local, así como en clubes nocturnos, pero la paga nunca fue muy buena. Se fue a Nueva York para trabajar como arreglista en la NBC y en 1947 se convirtió en miembro de la orquesta de la NBC. Durante ocho años trabajó con la orquesta como guitarrista, trompetista, arreglista y compositor.

Aunque había sido muy influenciado por Django Reinhardt y Charlie Christian al principio (aprendió los solos de Django a partir de un disco y conoció al guitarrista gitano cuando vino a los Estados Unidos en 1946), Johnny no se consideraba a sí mismo un músico de jazz. Sin embargo, hizo su primer disco como líder en marzo de 1952, en compañía de Stan Getz, Eddie Safranski, Sanford Gold y Don Lamond. Un título de esa fecha, "Moonlight in Vermont", fue un punto de inflexión en la carrera de Smith a pesar de su corta duración. "Vermont" se hizo para el sello Royal Roost (frecuentemente abreviado como Roost Records) y la compañía firmó un contrato a largo plazo con Smith durante el cual produjo alrededor de 20 álbumes. Roost fue absorbido más tarde por Roulette, que reeditó varios de los LPs de Johnny. La mayoría de los álbumes contenían una guitarra solista o un trío; dos respaldan a Smith con cuerdas que tocan arreglos que el guitarrista escribió él mismo. Había una gran atracción por el tratamiento elegante y melódico que Smith daba a las melodías superiores. No sólo el público comprador de discos, sino también cientos de guitarristas encontraron la música fascinante. La destreza de los dedos, la perfección de la forma en que dirigía los acordes y los arpegios, contribuyeron a la aclamación de la obra de Johnny.

Durante su mandato en Roost Records, produjo una larga lista de grabaciones significativas que incluyen las grabaciones de los grandes cuartetos: "The Johnny Smith Quartet" y "The Sound of The Johnny Smith Guitar", entre otros. Además, durante este período hizo el "Hombre con la Guitarra Azul". Este álbum, inusual para su época, probablemente ha sido transcrito más que cualquier otra grabación de Johnny Smith. A continuación, la producción "Annotations of The Muses" (Anotaciones de las musas), en la que Johnny Smith muestra todo lo que lo convirtió en un gran músico y un extraordinario guitarrista.

Johnny Smith se retiró de la escena del jazz en los años 60 a Colorado, donde abrió una tienda de música. Continuó tocando en clubes nocturnos locales e hizo una grabación con algunos músicos locales "Reminiscing", que demostró que no había perdido nada del estilo o la técnica de Johnny Smith. Su último trabajo discográfico fue el CD "Legends" de Concord Records, en 1994.

Las guitarras Johnny Smith:

En 1955, después de discusiones con la Guild Guitar Company, Smith diseñó una guitarra y envió los dibujos y especificaciones a la compañía. Los diseñadores del Guild lo modificaron (para insatisfacción de Smith), y fabricaron la guitarra resultante como el Premio Guild Johnny Smith.

En 1961, Gibson fue a ver al jubilado Smith a su casa en Colorado Springs. Smith diseñó la guitarra que quería construir. El diseño fue aceptado por Gibson con algunos cambios cosméticos menores que fueron aceptables para Smith. Gibson comenzó la producción del modelo Gibson Johnny Smith resultante ese año. Guild continuó produciendo su guitarra Johnny Smith bajo el nombre de Guild Artist Award.

Cuando Gibson trasladó sus instalaciones de fabricación de Kalamazoo, Michigan, a Nashville, Tennessee, varios de sus gerentes y artesanos decidieron quedarse atrás. Muchos de estos ex-empleados formaron Heritage Guitars y compraron la antigua fábrica de Kalamazoo a Gibson. Cuando tuvo que elegir entre Gibson y Heritage para construir la guitarra que llevaba su nombre, Smith eligió quedarse con los antiguos artesanos en la antigua ubicación bajo la nueva propiedad. El modelo Heritage Johnny Smith fue introducido en 1989. Como Guild antes que ellos, Gibson continuó fabricando su versión del diseño de Johnny Smith con un nuevo nombre: el Gibson LeGrand.

Fender Musical Instruments Corporation, de la cual Guild Guitars era una subsidiaria, le preguntó a Smith si estaría dispuesto a devolver su apoyo al Premio Guild Artist. Familiarizado con la administración de Schultz, y sabiendo que la construcción sería supervisada por el maestro luthier Bob Benedetto, Smith estuvo de acuerdo. El premio Guild Johnny Smith de Benedetto estuvo disponible a través de los distribuidores del Guild hasta principios de 2006, cuando Benedetto dejó Fender.
Fuente: James Nadal
https://musicians.allaboutjazz.com/johnnysmith
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The Quartette Très Bien • In Motion



The Quartette Trés Bien was an American jazz combo based in St. Louis led by pianist Jeter Thompson. The group was founded in 1959 and began recording in 1962. Jeter Thompson played with Jimmy Forrest, Oliver Nelson and Emmett Carter in his early years. The bassist of the group is Richard Simmons, the drummer Albert St. James who accompanied also Charlie Parker, Tab Smith and Jimmy Forrest. Percussionist Percy James added a latin flavor to the quartet who played more than ten years, before splitting in 1973. Jeter Thompson later assembled the Trio Tres Bien with his brothers Harold Thompson (bass) and Howard Thompson (drums).
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1433721-Quartette-Tr%C3%A9s-BienThe Quartette Trés Bien was an American jazz combo based in St. Louis led by pianist Jeter Thompson. The group was founded in 1959 and began recording in 1962. Jeter Thompson played with Jimmy Forrest, Oliver Nelson and Emmett Carter in his early years. The bassist of the group is Richard Simmons, the drummer Albert St. James who accompanied also Charlie Parker, Tab Smith and Jimmy Forrest. Percussionist Percy James added a latin flavor to the quartet who played more than ten years, before splitting in 1973. Jeter Thompson later assembled the Trio Tres Bien with his brothers Harold Thompson (bass) and Howard Thompson (drums).
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1433721-Quartette-Tr%C3%A9s-Bien

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El Quartette Trés Bien era un combo de jazz americano con sede en St. Louis dirigido por el pianista Jeter Thompson. El grupo fue fundado en 1959 y comenzó a grabar en 1962. Jeter Thompson tocó con Jimmy Forrest, Oliver Nelson y Emmett Carter en sus primeros años. El bajista del grupo es Richard Simmons, el baterista Albert St. James que también acompañó a Charlie Parker, Tab Smith y Jimmy Forrest. El percusionista Percy James añadió un sabor latino al cuarteto que tocó durante más de diez años, antes de separarse en 1973. Jeter Thompson más tarde montó el Trío Tres Bien con sus hermanos Harold Thompson (bajo) y Howard Thompson (batería).

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1433721-Quartette-Tr%C3%A9s-BienThe Quartette Trés Bien era un combo de jazz americano con sede en St. Louis dirigido por el pianista Jeter Thompson. El grupo fue fundado en 1959 y comenzó a grabar en 1962. Jeter Thompson tocó con Jimmy Forrest, Oliver Nelson y Emmett Carter en sus primeros años. El bajista del grupo es Richard Simmons, el baterista Albert St. James que también acompañó a Charlie Parker, Tab Smith y Jimmy Forrest. El percusionista Percy James añadió un sabor latino al cuarteto que tocó durante más de diez años, antes de separarse en 1973. Jeter Thompson más tarde montó el Trío Tres Bien con sus hermanos Harold Thompson (bajo) y Howard Thompson (batería).
https://www.discogs.com/artist/1433721-Quartette-Tr%C3%A9s-Bien


Chuck Higgins • Pachuko Hop



Artist Biography by Ron Wynn
Saxophonist Chuck Higgins earned R&B fame for his composition "Pachuko Hop," which remains a perennial favorite among Latino fans, but didn't gain enough general R&B acclaim to chart in the early '50s. Higgins also played trombone and trumpet. He moved from his native Gary to Los Angeles in 1940 as a teen. Higgins played trumpet in his high-school band and later attended the Los Angeles Conservatory. While there, Higgins started a band with pianist Frank Dunn and saxophonist Johnny Parker, among others. Higgins later became the band's saxophonist and wrote "Pachuko Hop." Its furious pace, roaring sax solo, and raw sound, plus the inclusion of the term "Pachuko," which was slang for a Mexican-American dressed in baggy pants with a key chain, made the song a '50s anthem for area Latinos. The B-side, "Motorhead Baby," was later the inspiration for Frank Zappa sideman James "Motorhead" Sherwood and the heavy metal band Motörhead. Higgins played dates in Los Angeles with everyone from Charlie Parker to the Orioles, and his band at one point included Johnny "Guitar" Watson. Although none of Higgins' many singles for Aladdin, Caddy, Lucky, Specialty, or Dootone ever earned national acclaim, he was an extremely popular regional attraction through the '50s and into the early '60s, when he retired from performing to become a music teacher at local high schools and a college. A comeback faltered in the mid-'70s, when Higgins tried to update his sound by going disco. He returned to honking R&B in the late '70s and toured England in the mid-'80s, while performing once again in Los Angeles clubs.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/chuck-higgins-mn0000121086/biography

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Biografía del artista por Ron Wynn
El saxofonista Chuck Higgins ganó fama en el R&B por su composición "Pachuko Hop", que sigue siendo una de las favoritas de los fans latinos, pero que no obtuvo la suficiente aclamación general del R&B como para que se grabara a principios de los años 50. Higgins también tocaba el trombón y la trompeta. Se mudó de su Gary natal a Los Ángeles en 1940 cuando era adolescente. Higgins tocó la trompeta en la banda de su escuela secundaria y más tarde asistió al Conservatorio de Los Ángeles. Mientras estuvo allí, Higgins formó una banda con el pianista Frank Dunn y el saxofonista Johnny Parker, entre otros. Higgins se convirtió en saxofonista de la banda y escribió "Pachuko Hop". Su ritmo furioso, su solo de saxo rugiente y su sonido crudo, además de la inclusión del término "Pachuko", que era la jerga de un méxico-americano vestido con pantalones holgados y un llavero, hicieron de la canción un himno de los años 50 para los latinos del área. El lado B, "Motorhead Baby", fue más tarde la inspiración para el lateral de Frank Zappa James "Motorhead" Sherwood y la banda de heavy metal Motörhead. Higgins tocó en Los Ángeles con todo el mundo, desde Charlie Parker hasta los Orioles, y su banda en un momento dado incluyó a Johnny "Guitarra" Watson. Aunque ninguno de los muchos sencillos de Higgins para Aladdin, Caddy, Lucky, Specialty o Dootone fue aclamado a nivel nacional, fue una atracción regional extremadamente popular durante los años 50 y principios de los 60, cuando se retiró de la actuación para convertirse en profesor de música en escuelas secundarias locales y en una universidad. El regreso se produjo a mediados de los años 70, cuando Higgins intentó actualizar su sonido con la música disco. Volvió a tocar el claxon en el R&B a finales de los 70 y realizó una gira por Inglaterra a mediados de los 80, mientras se presentaba una vez más en los clubes de Los Ángeles.
https://www.allmusic.com/artist/chuck-higgins-mn0000121086/biography





Bill Frisell, Beautiful Dreamer: The Guitarist Who Changed the Sound of American Music

 


Philip Watson (Author), Bill Frisell (Contributor)


The Complete History of Guitar World: 30 Years of Music, Magic, and Six-String Mayhem

 


For 30 years, Guitar World magazine has served as North America's leading publication for rock guitarists and with more than 325 issues under its belt, the world's bestselling guitar magazine is showing no signs of slowing down. In this extraordinary book, the complete history of Guitar World is chronicled from July 1980, when the very first issue, which featured Johnny Winter on its cover, took the guitar-playing community by storm, to issues from 2010 featuring the likes of Jimi Hendrix, John Mayer, Keith Richards, and many other guitar icons. Frank Zappa, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Kurt Cobain, Jimmy Page, and Eric Clapton are just some of the artists who have sat down with Guitar World over the years: the full transcripts of these legendary, revealing interviews are here. This lavishly illustrated edition takes you behind the scenes of such monumental events as Nirvana's Unplugged performance, Stevie Ray Vaughan's funeral, and the making of Led Zeppelin IV , and includes Guitar World 's great dual interviews: Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, Tony Iommi and James Hetfield, Steve Vai and Joe Satriani, and more. Rock music has gone through many changes since 1980 bands have come and gone, musical styles have shifted dramatically, heroes have fallen and through it all, Guitar World has been there, reporting on the events of the day and interviewing the musicians who keep the genre alive. It's all here, in The Complete History of Guitar World .

 

Tunes for Toons Music and the Hollywood Cartoon

 


In the first in-depth examination of music written for Hollywood animated cartoons of the 1930s through the 1950s, Daniel Goldmark provides a brilliant account of the enormous creative effort that went into setting cartoons to music and shows how this effort shaped the characters and stories that have become embedded in American culture. Focusing on classical music, opera, and jazz, Goldmark considers the genre and compositional style of cartoons produced by major Hollywood animation studios, including Warner Bros., MGM, Lantz, and the Fleischers. Tunes for 'Toons discusses several well-known cartoons in detail, including What's Opera, Doc?, the 1957 Warner Bros. parody of Wagner and opera that is one of the most popular cartoons ever created.

Goldmark pays particular attention to the work of Carl Stalling and Scott Bradley, arguably the two most influential composers of music for theatrical cartoons. Though their musical backgrounds and approaches to scoring differed greatly, Stalling and Bradley together established a unique sound for animated comedies that has not changed in more than seventy years. Using a rich range of sources including cue sheets, scores, informal interviews, and articles from hard-to-find journals, the author evaluates how music works in an animated universe. Reminding readers of the larger context in which films are produced and viewed, this book looks at how studios employed culturally charged music to inspire their stories and explores the degree to which composers integrated stylistic elements of jazz and the classics into their scores.
 
 

 









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Vivaldi (Master Musicians Series)

 


Celebrating its 100th anniversary, this extraordinary series continues to amaze and captivate its readers with detailed insight into the lives and work of music's geniuses. Unlike other composer biographies that focus narrowly on the music, this series explores the personal history of each composer and the social context surrounding the music. In a precise, engaging, and authoritative manner, each volume combines a vivid portrait of the master musicians' inspirations, influences, life experiences, even their weaknesses, with an accessible discussion of their work-all in roughly 300 pages. Further, each volume offers superb reference material, including a detailed life and times chronology, a complete list of works, a personalia glossary highlighting the important people in the composer's life, and a select bibliography. Under the supervision of music expert and series general editor Stanley Sadie, Master Musicians will certainly proceed to delight music scholars, serious
musicians, and all music lovers for another hundred years.

 

When Music Migrates Crossing British and European Racial Faultlines, 1945-2010

 


When Music Migrates uses rich material to examine the ways that music has crossed racial faultlines that have developed in the post-Second World War era as a consequence of the movement of previously colonized peoples to the countries that colonized them. This development, which can be thought of in terms of diaspora, can also be thought of as postmodern in that it reverses the modern flow which took colonizers, and sometimes settlers, from European countries to other places in the world. Stratton explores the concept of ’song careers’, referring to how a song is picked up and then transformed by being revisioned by different artists and in different cultural contexts. The idea of the song career extends the descriptive term ’cover’ in order to examine the transformations a song undergoes from artist to artist and cultural context to cultural context. Stratton focuses on the British faultline between the post-war African-Caribbean settlers and the white Britons. Central to the book is the question of identity. For example, how African-Caribbean people have constructed their identity in Britain can be considered through an examination of when ’Police on My Back’ was written and how it has been revisioned by Lethal Bizzle in its most recent iteration. At the same time, this song, written by the Guyanese migrant Eddy Grant for his mixed-race group The Equals, crossed the racial faultline when it was picked up by the punk-rock group, The Clash. Conversely, ’Johnny Reggae’, originally a pop-ska track written about a skinhead by Jonathan King and performed by a group of studio artists whom King named The Piglets, was revisioned by a Jamaican studio group called The Roosevelt Singers. After this, the character of Johnny Reggae takes on a life of his own and appears in tracks by Jamaican toasters as a Rastafarian. Johnny’s identity is, then, totally transformed. It is this migration of music that will appeal not only to those studying popular music, but

 

Salvador Dali - Shanes, Eric

 


Salvador Dalí (1904-1989) is best known for his unique and striking style with an extraordinary repertoire reaching out across film, painting, photography, and sculpture. Whilst his name may be most commonly associated with Surrealism, Dalí consummately displayed mastery over such broad genres as classical, modernist, and Cubist styles. A crucial figure in art history, Dalí has inspired countless literary works and this edifying Best Of volume gives readers a fascinating insight into the life and career highlights of one of art&;s most controversial and exciting pioneers.

 

Eric Shanes (Author) 

 

Katsushika Hokusai [jpg]




Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎?), conocido simplemente como Hokusai (北斎?) (Edo, actual Tokio, 31 de octubre de 1760 - 10 de mayo de 1849) fue un pintor y grabador japonés, adscrito a la escuela Ukiyo-e del periodo Edo. Es uno de los principales artistas de esta escuela conocida como «pinturas del mundo flotante».  También es conocido por la diversidad de nombres que utilizó a lo largo de su carrera profesional, Shunro, Sori, Kako, Taito, Gakyonjin, Iitsu y Manji.
 Fue autor de una obra inmensa y variada. Por ejemplo, en el Hokusai Manga (北斎まんが, Hokusai Manga) (1814-1849),n. muestra la vida diaria de su población, con una gran exactitud y sentido del humor. Realizó grabados de paisajes, las Treinta y seis vistas del monte Fuji (富嶽三十六景, Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei)(ca. 1830-1833) y las Cien vistas del monte Fuji (1834),3que reflejan en parte una fijación personal con el Monte Fuji. Fueron obras de esta serie, La gran ola de Kanagawa (神奈川沖浪裏, Kanagawa Oki Nami Ura) y Fuji en días claros (凱風快晴, gai kaze kaisei), las que aseguraron la fama de Hokusai, tanto dentro del Japón como en el extranjero.
 A mediados del siglo XIX sus grabados, así como los de otros artistas japoneses, llegaron a París. Allí eran coleccionados, especialmente por parte de artistas postimpresionistas de la talla de Vincent Van Gogh, Paul Gauguin y Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, cuya obra denota una profunda influencia de los grabados mencionados.

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Katsushika Hokusai (葛飾 北斎, About this sound listen (help·info), c. October 31, 1760 – May 10, 1849) was a Japanese artist, ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. Born in Edo (now Tokyo), Hokusai is best known as author of the woodblock print series Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji (富嶽三十六景 Fugaku Sanjūroku-kei, c. 1831) which includes the internationally iconic print, The Great Wave off Kanagawa.
 Hokusai created the Thirty-Six Views both as a response to a domestic travel boom and as part of a personal obsession with Mount Fuji. It was this series, specifically The Great Wave print and Fine Wind, Clear Morning, that secured Hokusai’s fame both in Japan and overseas. As historian Richard Lane concludes, "Indeed, if there is one work that made Hokusai's name, both in Japan and abroad, it must be this monumental print-series". While Hokusai's work prior to this series is certainly important, it was not until this series that he gained broad recognition.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokusai
 


Cal Tjader tomó "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" para su portada del disco "Breeze From The East".
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Cal Tjader took "The Great Wave off Kanagawa" for his album cover

 

 

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