Any hard-core jazz and/or classical music fans?

[throatybeard]

I'm not familiar with "Handel's Rodelinda and Giulio Cesare, Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande". Any particular sections that you recommend listening to?

Sorry I missed this 12ya. Here are the two most beautiful parts of Rodelinda, and Giulio Cesare. They're both couples being forced to part because somebody's probably gonna get killed.

Io t'abbraccio
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh-qWS...ature=youtu.be

Son nata a lagrimar
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OWUuFO...ature=youtu.be

[snowdenscold]

The Bach chaconne from the second partita that Snowden is talking about is one of the monuments of western art. I have Heifetz but I like Hilary Hahn more.

I also have Heifetz but it's not my favorite recording of the work. And Hilary Hahn would be much more pleasing to watch on stage

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Partita...)#The_Ciaccona
"On one stave, for a small instrument, the man writes a whole world of the deepest thoughts and most powerful feelings. If I imagined that I could have created, even conceived the piece, I am quite certain that the excess of excitement and earth-shattering experience would have driven me out of my mind."
-Brahms

Speaking of Hilary - she's the violin soloist from the soundtrack to the The Village - and whether you enjoyed it or not (I love the movie) - the music is amazing.

Blast from the past thread. I've recently come across a new favorite recording of the piece - a 1978 live recording in London by Itzhak Perlman. For something recorded that long ago, the audio quality is great. He actually performs all five movements here, with the Chaconne starting at 13:50.

https://youtu.be/qtyTaE7LvVs?t=830

Sorry I missed this 12ya. Here are the two most beautiful parts of Rodelinda, and Giulio Cesare. They're both couples being forced to part because somebody's probably gonna get killed.

Io t'abbraccio
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Rh-qWS...ature=youtu.be

Son nata a lagrimar
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=OWUuFO...ature=youtu.be

Cool, I will check these out!

[rsvman]

Very late to this thread, but I love both jazz and classical.
In the classical world, I'm partial to Renaissance and Baroque music. My brother and I used to perform concerts on original instruments when I was in college.
I am also a composer. I write choral music, because it combines my love lf poetry and my love of music. I have set four of Thomas Hardy's poems, among others. My stuff has been performed on five occasions here locally, by the Virginia Children's Chorus. One of my choral pieces was also published, and is available for purchase at Jackman Music. (It's entitled 'He Who Crafted the World,' if you are interested for this coming holiday season... shameless plug).

I also love jazz, especially piano jazz and melodic stuff. I don't like 'free-form.' I play jazz piano just for fun.

As to which is better, I certainly enjoy playing jazz more than playing classical. I think jazz ls a bit more harmonically interesting, in some ways, and I like the freedom it offers.

[fisheyes]

Very late to this thread, but I love both jazz and classical.
In the classical world, I'm partial to Renaissance and Baroque music. My brother and I used to perform concerts on original instruments when I was in college.
I am also a composer. I write choral music, because it combines my love lf poetry and my love of music. I have set four of Thomas Hardy's poems, among others. My stuff has been performed on five occasions here locally, by the Virginia Children's Chorus. One of my choral pieces was also published, and is available for purchase at Jackman Music. (It's entitled 'He Who Crafted the World,' if you are interested for this coming holiday season... shameless plug).

I also love jazz, especially piano jazz and melodic stuff. I don't like 'free-form.' I play jazz piano just for fun.

As to which is better, I certainly enjoy playing jazz more than playing classical. I think jazz ls a bit more harmonically interesting, in some ways, and I like the freedom it offers.

OMG, seriously rsvman?
You're a brilliant scientist AND you're an accomplished musician?
I hate you!
I kid...
But seriously, I'm impressed.

I've been taking jazz sax lessons for the last 8 or 9 years (I'm 65) and I still suck.
I need to quit my day job!

[OldPhiKap]

Very late to this thread, but I love both jazz and classical.
In the classical world, I'm partial to Renaissance and Baroque music. My brother and I used to perform concerts on original instruments when I was in college.
I am also a composer. I write choral music, because it combines my love lf poetry and my love of music. I have set four of Thomas Hardy's poems, among others. My stuff has been performed on five occasions here locally, by the Virginia Children's Chorus. One of my choral pieces was also published, and is available for purchase at Jackman Music. (It's entitled 'He Who Crafted the World,' if you are interested for this coming holiday season... shameless plug).

I also love jazz, especially piano jazz and melodic stuff. I don't like 'free-form.' I play jazz piano just for fun.

As to which is better, I certainly enjoy playing jazz more than playing classical. I think jazz ls a bit more harmonically interesting, in some ways, and I like the freedom it offers.

I may be more impressed by this than your contributions to the COVID thread, rsvman. And I am stunned by that alone as should be obvious.

[throatybeard]

I've got the SLSO again this coming Friday, and am building a small portfolio of reviews this season. The best is probably the J'Nai Bridges recital; not gonna lie, I was proud of the Louboutin paragraph.

[robed deity]

Blast from the past thread. I've recently come across a new favorite recording of the piece - a 1978 live recording in London by Itzhak Perlman. For something recorded that long ago, the audio quality is great. He actually performs all five movements here, with the Chaconne starting at 13:50.

https://youtu.be/qtyTaE7LvVs?t=830



Cool, I will check these out!

Late to this, but for the Sonatas and Partitas, I've always gone with Milstein or Szeryng.

https://youtu.be/6pOfAv9gQzs

https://youtu.be/5UcVW3Mmn2U

[jimmymax]

I'm mostly a bebop and post-bop kind of guy (loads of Diz and Bird in my collection). Monk, Miles, Rollins, Young, Coltrane, Getz, and the Marsalises.

If you are interested in "getting into" jazz, there are a number of wonderful ways to start.
Might I suggest a few places to start:

Anything by Bill Evans (piano)
Kind of Blue (Miles Davis classic with Adderley, Evans, Kelly, Coltrane)

Wow, a long dead thread resurrected -- can't believe I missed it 10+ years ago! The above are my jams. I grew up in a bebop house -- dad a piano player. Bill Evans pretty much ruled, with Parker, Dizzy, and Miles. My favorite Marsalis would be pop, Ellis.

[OldPhiKap]

Wayne Shorter passed away, he was 89.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1...NfCY4eQSVGFT_g

[CameronBlue]

Wayne Shorter passed away, he was 89.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1...NfCY4eQSVGFT_g

Sat in with a lot of great bands. Course everybody knows his contributions to weather report but he also sat in with the Doobies on tour and I’m sure a bazillion other acts

I love keeping my eyes and ears open for well programmed radio stations particularly featuring jazz or classical. This week I discovered one while on travel in Jamaica of all places. The station is KC online radio in Prairie Village,KS. Mainstream jaZz and blues. Goodbye CNN.

[rsvman]

Wow, a long dead thread resurrected -- can't believe I missed it 10+ years ago! The above are my jams. I grew up in a bebop house -- dad a piano player. Bill Evans pretty much ruled, with Parker, Dizzy, and Miles. My favorite Marsalis would be pop, Ellis.

Ellis Marsalis... what a fantastic pianist. Everything he played was tasty and appropriate.

[Phredd3]

I've got the SLSO again this coming Friday, and am building a small portfolio of reviews this season. The best is probably the J'Nai Bridges recital; not gonna lie, I was proud of the Louboutin paragraph.

I preferred the John Daniels Carter paragraph, personally, I suppose because I care more about the music, and less about the appearances, to the point where I had to Google Chihuly and Louboutin. The whole thing, however, is very well written.

I envy your access to the SLSO. I'm nervous about the Powell Hall expansion, but I have to admit that the space was crowded, even back some 30 years ago. I'm sure it's worse now. Hopefully, the expansion is tasteful and preserves that beautiful and near-perfect acoustic space.

[burnspbesq]

Wayne Shorter passed away, he was 89.

https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1...NfCY4eQSVGFT_g

It’s somewhat ironic that after a brilliant 60-year career as a bandleader and with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and Weather Report, most music fans know Shorter best for an impromptu, got-it-in-one-take solo on a Steely Dan record.

[Phredd3]

It’s somewhat ironic that after a brilliant 60-year career as a bandleader and with Art Blakey, Miles Davis, and Weather Report, most music fans know Shorter best for an impromptu, got-it-in-one-take solo on a Steely Dan record.

You mean the guy who plays while I'm trying to listen to Steve Gadd?

Seriously, I'm not all that into jazz, but that Steely Dan solo is legendary.

[gumbomoop]

I love keeping my eyes and ears open for well programmed radio stations particularly featuring jazz or classical.

I’m no jazz expert, though I do listen some Sat morns, 7-11 am, to a program called “Jazz & Beyond” on a great western NC station, WNCW-FM. Several posters here know of this station, and so might comment. Here’s the link.

https://www.wncw.org/

[OldPhiKap]

The story of how Wayne ended up on Aja and how it was recorded:

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/steely-...-play-aja/?amp

[Acymetric]

Wow, a long dead thread resurrected -- can't believe I missed it 10+ years ago! The above are my jams. I grew up in a bebop house -- dad a piano player. Bill Evans pretty much ruled, with Parker, Dizzy, and Miles. My favorite Marsalis would be pop, Ellis.

Ellis Marsalis came to our high school to do a master class with the band students and it was awesome.

[snowdenscold]

Our high school marching band actually played "Birdland" (originally a Weather Report song, famously covered by Manhattan Transfer) during the London New Years Day Parade.

[burnspbesq]

The story of how Wayne ended up on Aja and how it was recorded:

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/steely-...-play-aja/?amp

Becker and Fagen had a knack for getting great work out of jazz players. E.g., Larry Carlton’s legendary solo on “Kid Charlemagne.”

[luvdahops]

Becker and Fagen had a knack for getting great work out of jazz players. E.g., Larry Carlton’s legendary solo on “Kid Charlemagne.”

No doubt about that. The outro on “Kid Charlemagne” alone is worth the price of admission - one of the very best in pop music history IMHO.