Classic Albums
Classic Albums: Bill Dixon & Cecil Taylor, DUETS 1992
I transferred to Bennington College from the School of Visual Arts as a philosophy major, which lasted all of two weeks before I switched back to fine art.
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My 100 Favorite Albums (as of today)
Culling a list of 100 favorite albums could be seen as an arduous task. But it wasn’t. By combining a look at my digital library in Roon sorted by “Most Played” and my memory of […]
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Classic Albums: Jean Barraqué, Le Temps restitué
Digging through the Contemporary Classical bins at the old Tower Records on Broadway in NYC was an endless source of mystery and magic. Sometimes, I would pick a recording based on nothing more than the […]
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Classic Albums: Conlon Nancarrow, Studies for Player Piano Vol. I & II
Conlon Nancarrow was born in Texarkana, Arkansas in 1912, played jazz trumpet as a youngster, studied music with with Roger Sessions, Walter Piston and Nicolas Slonimsky, joined the communist party, fought against Franco in the […]
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Jerome Sabbagh: Five Influential Recordings
Saxophonist Jerome Sabbagh’s release with guitarist Greg Tuohey, No Filter, has been getting some serious airtime in Barn of late. Jerome and I recently shared an email exchange wherein I asked Jerome if he would […]
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dCS Classical Choices Curated by Charlotte Gardner: May 2019
[I am very pleased to be able to share dCS Classical Choices Curated by Charlotte Gardner. I first came across this wonderful selection of music accompanied by equally wonderful words on the dCS Facebook page. […]
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Classic Albums: Mal Waldron, Black Glory
I have a thing for Mal Waldron. A special thing. A Mal Waldron kinda thing which you may think would be about his gentle soulful searching side, The Quest, or perhaps his work as accompanist […]
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Classic Albums: Giacinto Scelsi, Natura Renovatur
Of all the personal discoveries made during my multi-year quest through the Tower Records Contemporary Classical department, two composers stand out from the rest: Morton Feldman and Giacinto Scelsi. If I saw something new from […]
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Classic Albums: Wolfgang von Schweinitz, Mass
If you enjoyed Schnittke’s wild ride, fasten your seat belts.
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Classic Albums: Alfred Schnittke, Faust Cantata
In 1587, Johann Spies published a chapbook based on a mythologized and fantastical version of a real man’s life who lived in the early 16th century titled Doctor Faustus. It spread like wildfire throughout Europe. […]
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Classic Albums: Morton Feldman, Triadic Memories
Back when I lived in NYC, I did not own a TV and the Internet, as we know it, didn’t exist. What ever did I do with all that time?
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The Blues Are Dead: Long Live The Blues
According to me, The Blues was a musical genre that encompassed many styles of roots music beginning in the late 1800s, ending in the 1950s. Anyone who started playing ‘the blues’ after the 1950s, especially […]