Time: 54:00
Size: 123.6 MB
Styles: Piano jazz
Year: 2015
Art: Front
[2:13] 1. Lulu's Back In Town
[6:31] 2. 'round Midnight
[5:37] 3. Body And Soul
[3:09] 4. A Child Is Born
[6:26] 5. Jumbo Little Girl Blue
[2:50] 6. Take The A Train
[4:41] 7. Basin Street Blues
[6:05] 8. Rosalie How Long Has This Been Going On
[3:26] 9. The Nearness Of You
[2:34] 10. Over The Rainbow
[3:04] 11. Things Ain't What They Used To Be
[7:17] 12. Perdido
Andrew Litton plays transcriptions of improvisations by the much-loved jazz pianist Oscar Peterson; The Bad Plus perform what is termed ‘an arrangement’ of Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring. Litton is a classical conductor who regularly directs Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue from the piano; The Bad Plus are a contemporary piano-bass-drums jazz trio, of the type popularised by Peterson, who have become renowned for their punky, rambunctious remakes of pop songs.
Litton interprets music that was originally improvised while The Bad Plus, improvisers by instinct, interpret a score. And somewhere in the back of Oscar Peterson’s mind as he was improvising on Thelonious Monk’s ‘Round midnight’, Billy Strayhorn’s ‘Take the “A” train’ and Juan Tizol’s ‘Perdido’ was an idea about the original source. Strayhorn’s composition became Duke Ellington’s signature theme tune and Peterson’s recasting was packed with a lifetime’s worth of thoughts and associations, the jittery momentum of his improvisation derived partly from needing to contain so much activity within a three-minute duration – finger-busting Harlem stride piano slamming into windows of impressionistic repose.~Phillip Clark
Litton interprets music that was originally improvised while The Bad Plus, improvisers by instinct, interpret a score. And somewhere in the back of Oscar Peterson’s mind as he was improvising on Thelonious Monk’s ‘Round midnight’, Billy Strayhorn’s ‘Take the “A” train’ and Juan Tizol’s ‘Perdido’ was an idea about the original source. Strayhorn’s composition became Duke Ellington’s signature theme tune and Peterson’s recasting was packed with a lifetime’s worth of thoughts and associations, the jittery momentum of his improvisation derived partly from needing to contain so much activity within a three-minute duration – finger-busting Harlem stride piano slamming into windows of impressionistic repose.~Phillip Clark
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