Albert King Fontella Bass Art Ensemble of Chicago Fela Anikulapo Kuti Few musicians travel so widely—or so well. Lester Bowie, trumpet, October 11, 1941-November 8, 1999 Lester Bowie’s Brass Fantasy (Steve Turre, trombone; Phillip Wilson, drums) Live, Germany (Berlin), 1986 #1 *** #2 (Whitney Houston’s “Saving All My Love For You”) Lester and drummer Phillip [...]
Archive for the ‘French horn’ category
Monday, 3/14/11
03/14/2011Monday, 1/24/11
01/24/2011Does anyone play Mozart with more verve? Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, KV. 466, first movement; Friedrich Gulda (piano and conducting), Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, live, Germany (Munich), 1986 Part 1 *** Part 2 More? Here. ********** lagniappe Friedrich Gulda has refused to succumb to the increasing specialization of our age, refused to [...]
Thursday, 11/4/10
11/03/2010Violins teach us what it would be like to fly. Henry Cowell, Symphony No. 13 (“Madras,” 1956-58), excerpt (first two movements), San Francisco Composers Chamber Orchestra, live, San Francisco, 2005 Want to hear all five movements? Here. ********** lagniappe Henry Cowell, the all-American composer of the 20th century, did it all. “I want to live [...]
Saturday, 10/23/10
10/22/2010Your 16-year-old daughter dies, suddenly, in a car accident. What do you do? If you’re pianist/composer Kenny Werner, what you do is create music. Kenny Werner, No Beginning No End (featuring Joe Lovano, tenor saxophone), recording session, New York (NYU), 2009
Tuesday, 10/5/10
10/04/2010beauty from behind bars Tadd Dameron wrote and arranged this while serving time for a federal drug crime. Blue Mitchell Orchestra (Blue Mitchell, trumpet, with [among others] Clark Terry, trumpet; Tommy Flanagan, piano; Willie Ruff, French horn; Philly Joe Jones, drums), “Smooth as the Wind” (1961) *** Federal Bureau of Prisons Federal Medical Center (as [...]
Tuesday, 9/28/10
09/27/2010crystalline, adj. Clear and transparent like crystal. E.g., Mitsuko Uchida playing Mozart. Mozart, Piano Concerto No. 20 in D minor, KV. 466/Mitsuko Uchida (piano and conducting), Camerata Salzburg, live, Germany (Salzburg), 2001 Part 1 (first movement) Part 2 (first movement, cont.) Part 3 (second movement) Part 4 (third movement) ********** lagniappe I like to make [...]
Thursday, 1/28/10
01/28/2010This guy—one of my all-time musical heroes (someone I’ve been listening to for over 30 years)—makes you move. He makes you feel. He makes you think. What more could you ask for? Henry Threadgill, alto saxophone With His Very Very Circus, live, New York, 1995 ***** With his Society Situation Dance Band (featuring Craig Harris, [...]
