First Milestone

First Milestone

ASIN: B00004SAZ5

Editorial Reviews
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An alumnus of recordings by organists Charles Earland and Jimmy McGriff as well as guitarist Pat Martino, tenor saxophonist Eric Alexander brings a smooth, honey-toned sound to bear on The First Milestone. Unlike most saxophonists, who usually bring other players to mind, Alexander recalls romantic vocalists such as Johnny Hartman or Andy Bey. His tone is big, smooth, and eminently listenable, and he's got chops to burn. He's a blues-based swinger with players like Coltrane, Willis Jackson, and Ike Quebec in his lineage, and his own tunes push things further than you might expect. With excellent accompaniment by Martino, pianist Harold Mabern, bassist Peter Washington, and drummer Joe Farnsworth, the recording is well balanced between aggressive originals, playful ballads, and fairly standard blowing vehicles. Alexander's own "Stand Pat" and "The First Milestone" draw bracing solos from all involved, as does Mabern's exciting time-twister, "The Phineas Trane." This band even turns oddball fare such as John Williams's "The Towering Inferno" into a swinging Latin cakewalk. Occasionally, lack of rehearsal or real gig time results in missed cues or a kind of business-as-usual feeling, but the killer solos and solid compositions make up for these minor mishaps. --Ken Micallef

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Average customer rating: One of A Kind Very nice ichiban(meaning number one in japanese)

First Milestone Eric Alexander Manufacturer: Milestone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Modern Postbebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Bebop & Post-Bop | Compilations | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: The Second Milestone Man with a Horn Alexander the Great Nightlife in Tokyo Summit Meeting ASIN: B00004SAZ5 Release Date: 2000-04-18

Tracks:

1. Stand Pat
2. #34 Was Sweetness (For Walter Payton)
3. The First Milestone
4. The Towering Inferno
5. Night Song
6. Last Night When We Were Young
7. The Phineas Trane
8. I'm Glad There Is You

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Customer Reviews:

One of A Kind.......2007-04-19

Very nice.......2000-06-29

ichiban(meaning number one in japanese).......2000-06-11

Average customer rating:

First World Steve Berrios & Son Bachéche Manufacturer: Milestone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Cuba | Caribbean & Cuba | International | Styles | Music Latin Pop | Latin Music | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Latin Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music ASIN: B000000XUR Release Date: 1995-03-15

Tracks:

1. Mafranbingo
2. La Buena Noche Mi Ngo
3. Once I Loved
4. El Nio Rey
5. Talkin' To Myself
6. Iremowire
7. Uranus
8. Brushin' It
9. Once In A While
10. Alamofije
11. Deja Voodoo
12. Dale
13. Lonely Woman/Acolona
14. Wild Is The Wind
15. Son Bachenche

Average customer rating:

First Call Bill Easley Manufacturer: Milestone ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Easley Said ASIN: B000000XTH Release Date: 1991-10-15

Tracks:

1. It's All In The Game
2. Somewhere Along The Way
3. How Long Has This Been Going On
4. Oh, What A Dream
5. Soulful Bill
6. Blues For Stitt
7. Prelude To A Kiss
8. Little Benny (AKA Crazeology)

Average customer rating: amazing recording Almost Perfect Slapin's Bach - comet in the sky!

Bach, Sonatas and Partitas for Solo Violin, recorded on viola Manufacturer: Eroica Classical Recordings ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by J.S. Bach | Bach, Johann Sebastian | ( B ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Baroque (c.1600-1750) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music Flute | Reeds & Winds | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music Violin | Strings | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Classical | Indie Music | Stores | Music Similar Items: Twelve Fantasias performed on viola Six Cello Suites performed on viola Lillian Fuchs: Complete Music for Unaccompanied Viola William Primrose: Viola Transcriptions The Elegant Viola: Yizhak Schotten, Viola ASIN: B00000IK0B Release Date: 2000-01-06

Tracks:

1. Adagio
2. Fugue
3. Siciliano
4. Presto
5. Grave
6. Fugue
7. Andante
8. Allegro
9. Adagio
10. Fugue
11. Largo
12. Allegro Assai

Tracks:

1. Allemande
2. Double
3. Courante
4. Double
5. Sarabande
6. Double
7. Bourree
8. Double
9. Allemande
10. Courante
11. Sarabande
12. Gigue
13. Chaconne
14. Prelude
15. Loure
16. Gavotte and Rondo
17. Minuets 1 and 2
18. Bourree
19. Gigue
20. Allemande
21. Courante
22. Sarabande
23. Bourree Anglaise

Album Description

(CD Two) This two CD set of shorter works includes Paganini Caprices 5 and 13, a new transcription of Ernst's fiendishly difficult variations on the Last Rose, Bloch's Prayer, Kreisler's Praeludium and Allegro, Handel's Largo (from Xerxes), premieres of works by Richard Lane and Scott Slapin, and several movements from Bach's 'Cello Suites and Handel's Violin Sonatas

Johann Sebastian Bach, was an able performer on virtually all stringed instruments, but he preferred to play the viola. In fact, he gave up being concertmaster of the Weimar court band in 1717 to play viola with the group. Bach composed the Six Sonatas and Partitas for Violin and the Unaccompanied Partita for Flute in Gothen around 1720. It is therefore quite conceivable that Bach himself played many of these works on viola. Bach later transcribed many individual movements for organ, lute and as instrumental movements in cantatas.

Each sonata begins with a slow, often improvisational movement which leads directly into a fugue. The slow movement often gives the impression of a vocal melody with instrumental accompaniment. The Third Sonata is the only exception; it has a steady rhythm throughout and gives the impression of four instruments playing at once!

The first movements always lead directly into fugues. These movements also create the impression of three (or even four) instruments playing at the same time.

The third movements are all moto perpetuos in two sections designed to display the skill and agility of the performer and to show off the brilliance of the instrument. These movements have often been performed as separate encore pieces.

The Partitas are more unpredictable in form that the Sonatas but do follow a general outline. The Partitas are composed entirely of dance movements, thus making them (in Bach's time) unsuitable for performances in church. Occasionally these dance movements are introduced by a prelude (such as in the Third Partita). Each Partita remains in the same key throughout. Often movements are simply variations on one another. In the First Partita each dance movement is followed by a double (a variation).It is interesting to note that Bach was neither commissioned to compose the Sonatas and Partitas nor did he write them for anyone in particular. It is assumed that they were written with the same pedagogical aim with which Paganini one-hundred years later composed his famous Twenty-four Caprices. Notes by Peter Rizzo.

Customer Reviews:

amazing recording.......2006-11-24

Almost Perfect.......2005-09-23

Slapin's Bach - comet in the sky!.......2004-05-18

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