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2023-12-18 05:30:00
KN's Favorite Recordings of 2023
[…] (USA). As evidenced by the title of his new album, London-born drummer and composer Yussef Dayes (b. 1993) has a high regard for the history and heritage of jazz. "What is jazz?” asks the young drummer. “Birthed in New Orleans, born in the belly of the Mississippi River, rooted in the gumbo pot of the Caribbean, South American culture, and African rituals. Continuing a lineage of Miles Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong -- music that is forever evolving limitless in its potential… Chasing the rhythm of drums that imitated one's heartbeat, the melodies for the mind and spirit, the bass for the core. A regal sound for this body of music." And that is what you hear throughout the 74 minutes of this eclectic, energetic, enthusiastic album. This is optimistic music that can’t help but lift your spirits. Even if you don’t consider yourself a jazz […]
2023-12-15 00:00:00
Another miscellany of orchestral and vocal music (Bostock, Corp, Davan Wetton, DePaul Wind Ensemble, Dreier, Elder, Pesek, The Albion Ensemble)
[…] from earlier Aurora/ASV/RPO release sourced from internet]Recording venue: All Saints' Church, Tooting, LondonRecording engineer: Sean Lewis; Producer: Arne-Peter RognanDan Godfrey Encores:01 Ferdinand Hérold: Zampa - Overture [8'44]02 Byron Brooke (reconstructed R Corp): Gee Whizz! [4'09]03 Percy Whitlock: Carillon for Organ and Orchestra * [5'08]04 Ethel Smyth: The Boatswain's Mate - Overture [6'46]05 Howard Flynn: Clatter of the Clogs. A Novelty Fox-Trot [3'02]06 Landon Ronald: In an Eastern Garden. No.2 from 'The Garden of Allah' [4'38]07 Armstrong Gibbs (ed. M Pilkington): The Betrothal Ballet Music, op.34 10'40]08 Montague Birch: Dance of the Nymphs [3'56]09 Ina Boyle: The Magic Harp ^ [9'16]10 Ludwig Pleier: Karlsbad's Dolls' Dance. Characteristic Piece [3'35]11 Rutland Boughton: The Immortal Hour. Love Duet for Orchestra [6'06]12 Montague Birch: Intermezzo (Pizzicati) [4'33]13 Cecil White (reconstructed M Riley): A Sierra Melody [3'36]Malcolm Riley- organ*, Eluned Pierce- harp^, Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra conducted by Ronald CorpDutton Epoch CDLX7276 [recorded July 2011; issued […]
2023-12-03 09:15:00
Norwich-based music writer, Tony Cooper, offers an account of Organ Re-born! a mini-concert series mounted in celebration of the return and rebirth of Norwich Cathedral’s organ.
[…] of many talents, too, ranging from a ballroom contestant on BBC’s Strictly to television host on Good Morning Britain, he can now add to his many disciplines in life ‘conductor’ as he took the baton for a couple of items comprising A Hymn for St Cecilia which Howells set to a joyful text by Ursula Vaughan Williams while offering a rare performance of A Grace for 10 Downing Street set to a text by Robert Armstrong which Howells wrote for Prime Minister, Edward Heath, in 1972. However, out of a wide and varied programme, Howells’ setting of the motet Take him, earth, for cherishing, composed in early 1964 as a tribute to President John F Kennedy (assassinated in Dallas on 22nd November 1963) showed how much Howells was moved by his tragic and unforeseen death. The BBC Singers were heard in all their consummate glory delivering a magnificent rendering of […]
2023-10-16 03:30:00
Recent Releases No. 61 (CD Reviews)
[…] his new album, London-born drummer and composer Yussef Dayes (b. 1993) has a high regard for the history and heritage of jazz. "What is jazz?” asks the young drummer. “Where did the word derive from? Birthed in New Orleans, born in the belly of the Mississippi River, rooted in the gumbo pot of the Caribbean, South American culture, and African rituals. Continuing a lineage of Miles Davis, Rahsaan Roland Kirk, Nina Simone, John Coltrane, Louis Armstrong -- music that is forever evolving limitless in its potential. The groove, its feeling, the compositions, the spontaneity, with a love for family, the discipline and dedication in maintaining the very high bar set by the pantheon of Black Classical Musicians. Chasing the rhythm of drums that imitated one's heartbeat, the melodies for the mind and spirit, the bass for the core. A regal sound for this body of music." And that is what […]
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