About this title: 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. Clarke, whom the booklet notes for this fine Norwegian release call "perhaps...the greatest cornet player of all time," is represented on the program here along with a variety of other composers, mostly European, in virtuoso music for cornet and ...
Format: SACD
Label: BIS
Date: 03/13/2007
UPC:675754980320
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Format: SACD
Label: BIS
Date: 03/13/2007
UPC:675754980320
Description: New in new packaging. USA Orders only! Brand New product! please allow delivery times of 3-7 business days within the USA; Attention UK customers, please use our UK account ImportCDsUK, thank you. read more
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