An absolutely astoundingly hectic week. My daughter got married Friday night, and Saturday was spent on a hundred different unrelated errands. Now, Sunday is going to be for catching up and getting ready for next week.
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Our weekly Jazz entry:
Don Ellis was an innovator, a visionary and a hell of an incredible Jazz arranger / composer. This piece, “Strawberry Soup” is his seminal piece and one of my all time favorite works. For jazz orchestra, string quartet and a bunch of different types of wind instruments, the piece has the structure of a symphony in three parts – with a drum solo. There are four drummers in the group. Ellis plays the trumpet and has the trumpet solo and jumps in the drum solos at the fourth drummer spot. Don Ellis died too young at the age of 44 from a heart condition.
Our weekly classical entry:
Samuel Barber’s Piano Concerto is one of his most atonal pieces and was composed in 1960 for a commission by his publisher G. Schirmer. It is scored for full orchestra and piano soloist. While it has a very modern approach to tonality, it is still an easy piece to listen to and is quite accessible to the classical music newbie.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VUwSytqsxf0
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See you next Sunday.
