The Passage [Enhanced]
ASIN: B0001JXQEW
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With over a dozen albums to his credit, Andy Narell has almost single handedly popularized the steel pan in contemporary jazz. While long associated with the Caribbean and Trinidad (where the instrument was invented in the early 1940s), Narell has made the subtly nuanced tones of the instrument a compelling presence in jazz (in much the same way that Toots Thielmans popularized the role of the harmonica). For his latest set, with its music for a steel orchestra, Narell traveled to Paris where he called upon the large steel band ensemble, Calypsociation. His writing celebrates the sweeping textures of the assembled players, and creates dazzling platforms for the featured soloists (Michael Brecker , Paquito D'Rivera, and Hugh Masekela). In particular, Brecker--no stranger to a wide variety of settings, genres, and idioms--shines on his numbers, especially the relaxed balladry of "Song For Mia." The highly percussive nature of the music is given full flower by the presence of a solid core of drummers. --David Greenberger
The Passage,Andy Narell,Heads Up,Crossover Jazz,Jazz,Pop,Post-Bop,World Fusion
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Michel Legrand by Michel Legrand
Manufacturer: Decca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B00005YW0W Release Date: 2002-04-16 |
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If the American pop culture profile of French composer-jazz pianist Michel Legrand doesn't seem what it once was, don't be misled: his European indie film scores continue six decades on, now numbering nearly 200. But Legrand's most beloved work remains the lovely, evocative themes he created in the '60s and '70s, including "I Will Wait for You" from The Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Thomas Crown Affair's "Windmills of Your Mind," the theme from Summer of '42, and his work on Barbra Streisand's Yentl. This collection marks Legrand's first solo piano recordings, presenting those and other film score highlights in spontaneously improvised performances that offer a glimpse of Legrand's musical soul. If, as in "Windmills," his enthusiasm gets the best of him and he occasionally lapses into flights of melodramatic pianistic self-parody, there are more than enough sublime moments here to compensate, especially on lesser-known songs like Best Friends' "How Do You Keep the Music Playing?," "What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life?" from The Happy Ending, and Brian's Song's "Hands of Time." --Jerry McCulley
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Discover Early Music
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000B6N6BI Release Date: 2005-11-01 |
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Marches, Vol. 2
Manufacturer: Denon Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000034RY Release Date: 1993-08-30 |
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Tielman Susato: Dansereye 1551
Manufacturer: Polygram Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000004CY2 Release Date: 1994-03-15 |
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Byrd: Consort and Keyboard Music; Songs and Anthems
Manufacturer: Naxos ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000013UP Release Date: 1994-10-04 |
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Charles Gounod: Faust (Highlights)
Manufacturer: EMI Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000002S0Y Release Date: 1989-06-06 |
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Flemish Feast: Renaissance Wind Music
Piffaro , and The Renaissance Band Manufacturer: Archiv Produktion ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD ASIN: B000046S42 Release Date: 2000-03-14 |
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Two Renaissance Dance Bands; Monteverdi's Contemporaries
Manufacturer: Testament UK ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000003XJL Release Date: 1996-05-10 |
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Ave, Ave!: 20th Century Music for Women's Voices
A. Emmett Adams , Pablo Casals , Katherine Dienes , Alberto Favero , William Hawley , David MacIntyre , Theodore Morrison , Einojuhani Rautavaara , Michael Sitton , Nancy Telfer , and Spiritual Traditional Manufacturer: Pro Organo CD 7095 ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B0000520TQ Release Date: 2006-01-25 |
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The first in a series of recordings of new works for women's voices on the ProOrgano label by the Saint Mary's College Women's Choir (Notre Dame, Indiana), Nancy Menk, conductor.
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Gounod: Faust (Highlights)
Manufacturer: EMI ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Similar Items:
ASIN: B000027FDW Release Date: 2005-03-01 |
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