![]() During my time as a long-time aspiring alto sax player, I learned my share of Paul Desmond soloes. dad had the "Two of a Mind" album and I listened to it a lot. This Passacaglia and Fugue for big band is really impressive. One composer I discovered after I had composed all my little jazz pieces except for the last two fugues was Hank Levy. This prelude has some contrapuntal lines going at times. just listened to a couple of preludes by John Mehegan that I found on Youtube. Wow and fantastic also! Thanks for mentioning him. Very much appreciated! listened for the first time to something by Kapustin, one of his etudes. ![]() In the early nineties, when I spent a year transcribing only Bill Evans music (after I had spent a year doing the same with Thelonious Monk's music what an education! ), one piece in particular really made a huge impression on me, Bill Evan's solo version of Gershwin's "I Loves You Porgy". Just listened to them, and wow! Fantastic music. I used Reaper to record them line by line with one for the encouraging words! I'd never heard the Gershwin preludes. I personally (due to venerable RSI problems in my hands and wrists) don't have the chops to play these pieces. Note: the piano vst is the Native Instrument piano The Grandeur for Kontakt. I used Reaper to record them line by line with one hand. Thanks for listening, and if you have time tell me what you think. The 8 minute and 46 second video linked to below contains 11 short pieces of mine (jazz fugues, preludes, and inventions) for solo piano (each time-coded in the video description below the video on the video's Youtube page). ![]() The pieces I'd like to share here grew out of my desire to combine the melodic-harmonic language of the latter with the compositional structures and devices of the former. Two currents of musical thought that especially impacted me were complex contrapuntal music as exemplified by Bach and Josquin, and mid-last-century jazz as found in the works of Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, and Bill Evans (and many others). As any composer/musician coming of age in the late 20th century, I was exposed to many disparate styles and traditions of music. ![]()
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