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SOUND INSIGHTS: June 2011
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Bernard Herrmann at 100. Composer Bernard Herrmann emerged from the Golden Age of cinema and contributed a signature sound to some of history’s most significant films. While his name may not be known to most of today’s filmgoers – he died, after all, a full generation or two ago in 1975 – Bernard Herrmann’s music is undoubtedly some of the best and best known the cinema has ever produced. 1941), to his last, Martin Scorsese’s. Almost everything Herrmann touched or reflected upon...
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SOUND INSIGHTS: May 2011
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Monday, May 30, 2011. Cincinnati based guitarist Wilbert Longmire has long had a curious career as a legend throughout northern Ohio and as an occasional headliner on national albums, paired with some of jazz’s greatest names. The guitarist came to more widespread attention as part of Trudy Pitts’s band, notably on the Philadelphia-based organist’s earliest Prestige albums. A Bucketful of Soul. The Excitement of Trudy Pitts. Arranged and conducted by Gerald Wilson) and “Scorpio Rising,” proba...World Pac...
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SOUND INSIGHTS: April 2011
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Wednesday, April 27, 2011. 8220;Children’s Song” by Roberta Flack. This song has always been one of my very favorites. “Children’s Song” is a little-known tune from Roberta Flack’s little-known soundtrack to the little-known Richard Pryor/Cicely Tyson film. It doesn’t sound feasible at all. But the pairing of Richard Pryor and Cicely Tyson is inspired. The two have a remarkable chemistry as polar opposites. Open your eyes to your feelings. Show me that you care. Just like the stars in the heavens. Otherw...
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SOUND INSIGHTS: September 2010
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Thursday, September 30, 2010. Patrick Williams “Aurora”. Composer and long-time band leader Patrick Williams (b. 1939) has finally issued his first big band album since 1998’s Grammy Award-nominated. Nominated for his sterling arrangement on “In The Still Of The Night”). Is meant to follow in the tradition of the composer’s Grammy-winning. 1973) But it’s different in many, many ways. First, while. Successfully married jazz and classical tropes with then-in rock rhythms and instrumentation,. Doesn’t...
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SOUND INSIGHTS: December 2010
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Wednesday, December 29, 2010. 89, American jazz pianist and composer, heart attack. 54, American singer and composer. 85, American museum founder (The Andy Warhol Museum) and brother of Andy Warhol, pneumonia. 83, American editor (Down Beat) and music producer (Chess, Mercury). 80, American jazz pianist, arranger and composer. 78, American jazz organist, pianist and vocalist, pancreatic cancer. 88, American film director, producer and screenwriter (The Pink Panther, Breakfast at Tiffany's), pneumonia.
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SOUND INSIGHTS: Stan Getz - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection
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Saturday, July 09, 2011. Stan Getz - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection. Know what’s really cool to a music lover? When record labels that own a big chunk of an important artist’s output release it as thoroughly, as nicely and as affordably as Sony is doing in its “The Complete” reissue series available on the newly-launched online retailer Pop Market. Stan Getz – The Complete Columbia Albums Collection. With Chick Corea (electric piano), Stanley Clarke (bass), Tony Williams (drums) and Airto Moreir...
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SOUND INSIGHTS: November 2010
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Tuesday, November 30, 2010. Three of Joe Farrell's Lost CTI Classics Finally Coming to CD in January. Farrell (1937-86) had also made the rounds as a New York studio musician in the sixties, playing on sessions for jazz stars like Stanley Turrentine, Jimmy Smith, James Moody and Herbie Hancock and even on many popular albums by Santana, the Rascals, The Band and Aretha Franklin. The legendary producer Creed Taylor had already recorded albums by George Benson (. Tell It Like It Is. Song of the Wind. For C...
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SOUND INSIGHTS: January 2011
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Monday, January 31, 2011. John Barry – R.I.P. The film world lost one of its greatest composers with the death of John Barry, who died yesterday in New York at age 77. Barry, who had long lived in New York, is said to have died of a heart attack. But official details have not yet been released. In 1962, crafting the famed James Bond theme (the authorship of which has always been in dispute), giving it an eternally cool edge with the addition of Vic Flick’s famed guitar. But John Barry’s music, whic...
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SOUND INSIGHTS: March 2011
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Thursday, March 31, 2011. Farley Granger – R.I.P. Farley Granger never considered himself a movie star or even a Hollywood player. He even bought himself out of a strait-jacket, star-making contract in order to pursue his love of acting in the theatre. While he never really found his niche on the stage, he did consider himself an actor first (someone who professes to love the theatre over moviemaking) while earning a healthy and seemingly happy living as a character actor on television. And episodic TV (.
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SOUND INSIGHTS: Bernard Herrmann at 100
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Wednesday, June 29, 2011. Bernard Herrmann at 100. Composer Bernard Herrmann emerged from the Golden Age of cinema and contributed a signature sound to some of history’s most significant films. While his name may not be known to most of today’s filmgoers – he died, after all, a full generation or two ago in 1975 – Bernard Herrmann’s music is undoubtedly some of the best and best known the cinema has ever produced. 1941), to his last, Martin Scorsese’s. Almost everything Herrmann touched or reflected upon...
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