A few aging listeners will recall a time when the only way to hear most of the music of Anton Webern was through the recordings of Robert Craft. Few of those listeners will recall those performances with pleasure. Webern's music was new then, so most of it had never been recorded before, so no one really knew how it went. That Craft had his ...
The three works on this album are billed as "genre-shattering trombone concerti for the 21st century," but they're actually slightly oversold as such. Only one, the Concerto for trombone and orchestra of Jeff Tyzik (2003), is actually a product of this century, and the program as a whole is actually on the conservative side, no more "for the ...
This is a good, solid pops recording; a disc that's fun to hear. It's not necessarily for hardcore jazzheads or swing dancers, but might be just the thing to introduce some of these classic tunes to folks who think they don't like jazz. Most of these tracks don't swing hard, but there are a few that even a dedicated dancer would want to try out. ...
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