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The Boston Musical Intelligencer
2024-04-25 14:39:15
Rembering Brian Jones
On Saturday Trinity Church will host a memorial service for its illustrious former music director at 10:00 AM (preludes at 9:30); this promises to be a beautiful and deeply moving celebration of the life of Brian Jones, featuring choral music pre-selected by him, sung by the present Trinity Choir, The Copley Singers, and other Trinity Choir “alumni” from his years as music director, and conducted by the current music director, Colin Lynch. A reception follows in the church’s undercroft. Last November the world of music lost an artist of extraordinary gifts in Brian Ernest Jones, and the larger world also lost a great humanitarian, bon vivant, raconteur, and all-around mensch. A man who cherished the English language, he was also one of the earliest writers to contribute concert reviews to the new Boston Musical Intelligencer blog started in 2008, and he recruited others (including myself) to follow his lead. The […]
2024-04-15 03:30:00
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 […]
All the conducting master class
2024-04-14 16:40:32
WHERE: ZLIN, Czech Republic – 170 Miles (270km) east of Prague; 125 Miles (200km) north of Vienna WHEN: Arrive July 19, depart July 28 (Concert on 27th) FACULTY: ENSEMBLE: Bohuslav Martinu Philharmonic (Zlin, CZ) Established in 1945 as the Symphony Orchestra of Bata National Enterprise, the Bohuslav Martinů Philharmonic Orchestra has worked with […]
2024-04-08 03:30:00
A Jazz Musician on Classical Music and Jazz
[…] a technical standpoint in some way. That it is music that can be explained in those terms. And the piece that you've chosen for this title is a deceptively simple, Count Basie-ish tune... EI: Well, that's right. A lot of the time, something simple on the surface is full of complexity underneath. Many people think they've got Billie Holiday's number, but, actually, they don't have her number. The same goes for all great jazz. The composed melodies of Miles Davis’s Kind of Blue can be scratched out on a paper napkin, but there are so many other elements that make the album very sophisticated. Often there hasn't been enough of the proper terminology to describe those sophisticated elements, and as a writer and critic, I am trying to move that discussion forward. The song “Technically Acceptable” is a medium tempo rhythm changes tune in the Count Basie idiom. You're correct, that does not seem very […]
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