Time: 37:06
Size: 84.9 MB
Styles: Easy Listening
Year: 1965/2009
Art: Front
[3:16] 1. How High The Moon
[3:31] 2. Summertime
[2:27] 3. Orchids In The Moonlight
[4:09] 4. Amor
[1:57] 5. What Is This Thing Called Love
[3:08] 6. Deep Purple
[3:30] 7. Stardust
[2:18] 8. True Love
[3:47] 9. All The Things You Are
[2:00] 10. La Cumparsita
[3:26] 11. Somewhere Over The Rainbow
[3:30] 12. Where Is Your Heart (Song Of The Moulin Rouge)
Composer, bandleader, and inventor Raymond Scott was among the unheralded pioneers of contemporary experimental music, a figure whose genius and influence have seeped almost subliminally into the mass cultural consciousness. As a visionary whose name is largely unknown but whose music is immediately recognizable, Scott's was a career stuffed with contradictions: though his early work anticipated the breathless invention of bebop, his obsession with perfectionism and memorization was the very antithesis of jazz's improvisational ethos. Though his best-known compositions remain at large thanks to their endless recycling as soundtracks for cartoons, he never once wrote a note expressly for animated use, and though his later experiments with electronic music pioneered the ambient aesthetic, the ambient concept itself was not introduced until a decade after the release of his original recordings. ~Jason Ankeny
Amor