Matériel : Partition + CD
Performed by Tom Fischer tenor saxAccompaniment: Tim Laughlin's New Orleans All-StarsMany people consider New Orleans the birthplace of jazz. After all Louis Armstrong was born and played there as well asJoseph King Oliver the Dodds Brothers Sidney Bechet and a roster of players to fill not one but many all-star bands. Louis Prima was a child of the Crescent City as is Harry Connick and WyntonMarsalis. The whole Marsalis clan was raised there and are all acknowledged jazz masters so its reputation as the seminal jazz town has long been acknowledged. We assembled a band of New Orleans' best players for our times veterans all of many street parades and steamboat gigs and asked them to put together a typical program of New Orleans Classics. Under the direction of Tim Laughlin clarinetist supreme and led by Connie Jones Jr. one of thegreat hornmen of this city which boasts so many great players they put together an album of must-hear must-have songs that every traditional jazz player cherishes. Hear them now in these perfect renditions. Then join the band onyour own instrument be it clarinet trumpet trombone tenor piano bass or drums as they swing through the French Quarter of New Orleans.Includes newly engraved solo charts printed on acid-free ivory paper; andtwo compact discs featuring complete versions of each tune plus a recording of the accompaniments minus the soloist. Also includes slow-tempo versions of most up-tempo pieces for practice purposes.
SKU: HL.48185789
UPC: 888680831479. 9.0x12.0x0.075 inches.
Born in 1948, Claude-Henry Joubert studied at the Paris Conservatoire where he won many prizes. His career has led him to become Director of the Orleans Conservatory, as well as teaching at other institutions. His compositional output is also substantial, with Miss Poppy being a delightful addition to the Saxophone repertoire. The preface of Miss Poppy, written by Michel Meriot, states that the piece fills a vital gap as an necessary exam and audition work for many schools and other institutions. Adaptable to Alto, Tenor or Soprano Saxophones, Miss Poppy is suitable to grade two standard saxophonists. With a typical performance lasting about 2 minutes and 15 seconds, Joubert's work contains many appealing musical features. For all aspiring saxophonists, Miss Poppy is a sublime addition to the repertoire..
SKU: HL.49047362
ISBN 9798350124842. UPC: 196288207597.
The choice of 16th century texts, by Bronzino and Battiferri, reflects the interests of the dedicatee of these sonnets - Craig Hugh Smyth, a fine art historian and former director of the Villa I Tatti, who was a specialist in Bronzino and Pontormo. Bronzino's sonnet is a lament on the death of Pontormo, his teacher; Laura Battiferri's poem is a direct response to that of Bronzino. As I was also asked to set sonnets by Petrarca, I chose two of his closely linked sonnets, numbers 229 and 230 in the Rime Sparse. I had written a work for I Tatti some five years earlier setting Petrarca (??A qualunque animale?, the first in my Fourth Book of Madrigals) and was familiar with the context. However, through correspondence with Kathryn Bosi, Music Librarian at I Tatti and, through her, Craig Smyth's family, I became increasingly aware of his unusual and quite special character. From his undergraduate days at Princeton and indeed throughout his life, although a great scholar and writer, he was at the same time an aficionado of jazz, loving above all Louis Armstrong, being photographed with Duke Ellington, taking his children to see Thelonious Monk, listening to Ben Webster and playing the tenor saxophone himself. Indeed, he had told Kathryn Bosi that he had been proud to walk in procession at the funerals of black musicians in New Orleans. In some ways his life was almost an obverse mirror image of parts of my own - I was a professional jazz musician but found myself teaching art history for a time. As Fiorella Superbi of I Tatti has said: Craig was a maestro di vita. I raise a glass in his memory and dedicate these sonnets to him. Gavin Bryars.
