Here, Wynton Marsalis switches to cornet and tries to recreate the ambience of the proverbial village wind bands of long ago -- albeit with the emphatically big-league help of Donald Hunsberger and the massive Eastman Wind Ensemble. This means a program of transcriptions of classical tunes, variations on popular ditties, dollops of sentimentality, ...
On her album American Virtuosa: Tribute to Maud Powell, violinist Rachel Barton Pine pays wonderful homage to one of the greatest American violinists most listeners have likely never heard of. Maud Powell was a pioneer in almost every way imaginable, perhaps most notably because she was one of the first performers to attempt to bring classical ...
When Louis Armstrong scaled new heights of individualistic jazz virtuosity in a work like West End Blues, he was drawing partly on a tradition that is almost lost to modern listeners. Today the marching band music is thought of mostly as an ensemble music, but in Sousa's day it had a strong solo component exemplified by Herbert Lincoln Clarke. ...
Opinions vary over Wynton Marsalis' contributions to the field of jazz, but there is little controversy over his exceptional classical performances, which are well documented on this satisfying twofer from Sony. Covering a period from 1984 to 2003, this survey provides representative samples from Marsalis' best-selling classical and crossover ...
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