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3 Shades of Blue/Kind of Blue (Book/CD Review)
by Karl Nehring Kaplan, Janes. 3 Shades of Blue: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Bill Evans, and the Lost Empire of Cool. New York: Penguin Press, 2024. Miles Davis: Kind of Blue. So What; Freddie Freeloader; Blue in Green; All Blues; Flamenco Sketches. Miles Davis, trumpet; John Coltrane, tenor saxophone; Julian “Cannonball” Adderley, alto saxophone; Wynton Kelly, piano (Blue in Green only); Bill Evans, piano (all other tracks); Paul Chambers, bass; Jimmy Cobb, drums. Columbia/Legacy CK64935 In a couple of recent posts I have shared some thoughts by jazz musicians concerning the influence of classical music on jazz (you can find those posts here and here). In his new book, 3 Shades of Blue, James Kaplan tells the interlocking life stories of three key figures in jazz: trumpeter Miles Davis, saxophonist John Coltrane, and pianist Bill Evans. Those with even a passing knowledge of jazz history are no doubt familiar with at least one of those three names, while those with a bit more knowledge will likely recall […]
2022-04-09 05:10:00
Classical Music News of the Week, April 9, 2022
[…] program, performed at Town Hall on Sunday, April 10 at 2:00 p.m., the instrumentation evolves from piece to piece, with the piano serving as a common thread. First, Mr. Wosner performs with violinist Alexi Kenney and cellist Sterling Elliot in Brahms's Piano Trio in C minor, Op. 101, followed by Rebecca Clarke’s Morpheus with violist Hsin-Yun Huang. He then rejoins Mr. Kenney for Jessie Montgomery’s Peace, before closing the program with all three musicians—plus bassist Timothy Cobb—in Schubert's “Trout Quintet” in A major, D. 667.While Mr. Wosner’s program emphasizes variety—of instrumentation, composers, and styles—Mr. Biss takes the opposite approach in his choice of repertoire, instead focusing on two works of the same genre (piano quartet) from the same year (1875), whose points of similarity allow audiences to hear their more subtle differences in greater relief. The origins of Brahms’s Piano Quartet in C minor, Op. 60, date back to the 1850s, […]
2022-03-02 14:53:12
[…] at Bayreuth as assistant to Adam Fischer and Giuseppe Sinopoli. Most recently we heard Peter Selwyn conducting Wagner's Die Walküre at Hackney Empire in Julia Burbach's production for Arcola Theatre's Grimeborn Festival (see my review). And Peter Selwyn will be conducting the next instalment of the cycle, Siegfried, this August. And in October he will be conducting Wagner's Tristan und Isolde with the London Opera Company. Further details from his website. The orchestra is also appointing Michael Cobb as principal guest conductor. Full details from the orchestra's website.
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