marcoliv Posted October 24, 2003 Report Posted October 24, 2003 as i have mentioned in other post, i really love classical music played by jazz players. Fred Hersch has 2 excellent albums on this category: The French Collection & Red Square Blue Jazz Impressions Of Russian Composers. Hubert Laws also offered us some great stuff on his CTI albums and Jacques Loussier is one of my heroes (his new release "Allegretto from Symphony No.7, Theme and Variations" on Telarc will be available next Tuesday) what else am i missing? thanks in advance for your valuable help Marcus Oliveira Quote
Rooster_Ties Posted October 24, 2003 Report Posted October 24, 2003 Chucho Valdés: Fantasia Cubana: Variations on Classical Themes And excellent release, featureing Chucho in a solo-piano setting. His take on the 'classical' material is both true to the original, and very much influenced by jazz. The AMG review is at the link above, but the info at bluenote.com is way more informative. Cuban pianist Chucho Valdés, 59, has earned international renown and a devoted audience as an imaginative composer, virtuosic improviser, commanding bandleader and invaluable collaborator. Now with the release of Fantasia Cubana: Variations on Classical Themes, his sixth CD on Blue Note Records, Valdés embraces works by Chopin, Debussy, Ravel and his inspirational mentor Ernesto Lecuona, in a solo setting, demonstrating through sensitive interpretations and original compositions a nuanced lyricism that illuminates acknowledged classics. Quote
marcoliv Posted October 24, 2003 Author Report Posted October 24, 2003 (edited) i forgot about Chucho!! shame on me i have this one and it´s excellent Marcus Oliveira Edited October 24, 2003 by marcoliv Quote
Dmitry Posted October 24, 2003 Report Posted October 24, 2003 Fred Hersch has 2 excellent albums on this category...Red Square Blue Jazz Impressions Of Russian Composers. What a cheesy title... Quote
paul secor Posted October 25, 2003 Report Posted October 25, 2003 Frederic Hand's Jazzantiqua includes Jane Ira Bloom on soprano sax. Quote
brownie Posted October 26, 2003 Report Posted October 26, 2003 The 'Bud on Bach' track on volume 3 of 'The Amazing Bud Powell' Blue Note album. Quote
michel devos Posted October 26, 2003 Report Posted October 26, 2003 Hi Marcus, Could you tell us more about the new Jacques Loussier CD ? Quote
marcoliv Posted October 26, 2003 Author Report Posted October 26, 2003 hi Michel, i haven´t heard anything yet. i will place an order really soon as i do have all his Telarc releases. i´ll let you know when i get it but i´m sure it´s gonna be fascinating since it´s the first time (from my knowledge) he´s recording Beethoven´s music maybe one day he will do something from Mozart.. Marcus Oliveira Quote
michel devos Posted October 26, 2003 Report Posted October 26, 2003 If you like Beethoven's 7th, I'll recommend the following Idil Biret Beethoven 7th transcrition by F.Liszt EMI check her website www.idilbiret.org Cyprien Katsaris idem on Teldec +Schumann's Variations upon a theme from Beethoven's 7th (Largo) All are top flight piano transcriptions of extreme virtuosity AND musicality I'll certainly keep an eye upon this Loussier issue...Thks for the tip... Quote
jazzbo Posted October 26, 2003 Report Posted October 26, 2003 I have to find this somehow soon. . . I have a long deleted Columbia cd of jazz pieces rearranged and performed by classical musicians which I love; I know it's the flip side of the topic of this thread but I think it's great. I'm actually not really fond of jazz musicians playing classical. . . unless it's maybe Ellingtonians playing Ducal classical music. . . . Quote
A Lark Ascending Posted October 27, 2003 Report Posted October 27, 2003 Jim Hall and Art Farmer playing that famous Albinoni tune retitled as 'Lament for a Fallen Matador' on a wonderful mid-70s A&M Horizon. Not a piece I really care for in the original but this version is exquisite! Quote
Shrdlu Posted October 27, 2003 Report Posted October 27, 2003 I don't know where you would find it, but my wife (a classically trained violinist and pianist) said that she heard Dave Brubeck playing some Mozart, and that it was excellent. I am not surprised, as Dave's touch and technique are top class. He also has huge hands, and can span a twelfth! Quote
Michael Fitzgerald Posted October 27, 2003 Report Posted October 27, 2003 (edited) At points, two very different things are being talked about here - one is musicians who play jazz as well as classical music (like Jarrett doing Shostakovich), the other is jazz interpretations of classical themes. For the first, I'll mention Daniel Schnyder, Swiss composer/saxophonist who has written some nice chamber music that frequently features performers who cross the line - Mike Mossman recorded his trumpet sonata, Simon Nabatov and Dave Taylor and Kenny Drew, Jr. have also appeared on his non-jazz albums. In 1986 or so I saw Chick Corea perform a Mozart piano concerto (with his own improvised cadenzas - not strictly Mozartian), followed by the premiere of his own piano concerto. The recorded version of the Corea concerto is much more third-stream than that performance I saw. The recording has orchestra plus the Corea trio. For the second, there is a great Teddy Charles album of Russian music. And the John Kirby Sextet did some clever rearrangements of classical themes, so did the Claude Thornhill band. If I remember correctly, Bill Frisell does some Copland on one of his CDs. Also, there's a Bob Belden setting of - Tosca, I think - that was barred from being released in the USA. I think it only came out in Japan. That Fred Hersch Russian album is great. Mike Edited October 27, 2003 by Michael Fitzgerald Quote
BruceH Posted February 4, 2009 Report Posted February 4, 2009 There's an album of the Ellington Orchestra playing jazz versions of the Nutcracker Suite. I believe it can now be found on the "Three Suites" CD. Quote
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