AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.
Create a link to this page
Copy and paste this link tag into your Web page or blog:
More jazz than not.(The Music)(Sound Recording Review)
Geri Allen: The Life of a Song (Telarc SACD-63598)
I should point out at the outset that although this is a SACD release, my listening was done to the CD layer in 2.1 mode (newspeak for stereo speakers plus subwoofer). No, I still have not set up a surround system, and no, I'm not sure when I finally will get around to it.
Even when auditioned as a standard CD, though, The Life of a Song is sonically impressive. Dave Holland's bass sounds a little small, but it seems to sound that way on all his recordings, so I will assume that is the sound he wants to convey. The overall sonic balance is good, as are the dynamics.
At first listen, and several thereafter, I was unimpressed by the music. Not that there was anything wrong with it, or off-putting, rather that it just seemed uninspired. I got the same impression when I listened to Geri Allen live a year ago as part of Charles Lloyd's Quintet: she played well but did not seem to have a distinctive voice on the piano. The net effect here is much the same, but redeemed partially by DeJohnette's hard work behind his drum kit.
This is a very good release, musically pleasing and sonically satisfying, but in the final analysis, it just does not quite scale the heights you would hope for given the pedigree of the protagonists. Still, it is a very fine outing and I suspect that many jazz fans will react to it more positively than I did, so I do not feel hesitant about giving it a recommendation.
Berlioz: Requiem Frank Lopardo, tenor/Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and Chorus/Robert Spano (Telarc SACD 60627)
Most classical music fans probably already have a favorite recording of the Berlioz Requiem in their collection, but perhaps not yet an SACD version. I would suspect this would be a good one to purchase for those with surround systems. Although I listened in 2.1 stereo, I was impressed by the sonics, and by the performance, and I would imagine this recording would be a real humdinger when heard through a good surround system.
- Evelyn Glennie kicks off season.(GO!)
- Newspaper article from: Telegram & Gazette (Worcester, MA) October 15, 2009 700+ words
...performed by Orquestra Sao Paulo and Dame Evelyn Glennie during their current series of concerts...Orquestra de Sao Paulo with Dame Evelyn Glennie When: 8 p.m. Friday Where: Mechanics...3231. ART: PHOTO Percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie will perform with the Orquestra Sao...
- How We Met: James Blades and Evelyn Glennie
- Newspaper article from: The Independent - London HESTER LACEY May 22, 1994 700+ words
...with his wife, Joan, in Surrey. Evelyn Glennie, OBE, was born in Aberdeen in 1965...Malcangi. JAMES BLADES: I first met Evelyn Glennie in Aberdeen in 1980. I was touring...her, saying: "This is my pupil, Evelyn Glennie, and she is deaf." To say this surprised...
- The Children's Hearing Institute Evelyn Glennie Scholarships for Deaf Musicians...
- Press release article from: PR Newswire October 29, 1998 700+ words
...the advanced section of The first Evelyn Glennie National Scholarship Awards sponsored...Carnegie Hall in New York City. The Evelyn Glennie National Scholarship Award Program...finalists being selected by Ms. Glennie. Evelyn Glennie is an internationally renowned concert...
- Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey With Evelyn Glennie.(Brief article)(Video...
- Magazine article from: Video Business McClain, Buzz April 17, 2006 700+ words
...Touch the Sound: A Sound Journey With Evelyn Glennie Color. NR (nothing offensive...Sept. 2004. <$1 mil. Cast Evelyn Glennie, Fred Frith (Step Across the Bonier...internationally renowned percussionist Evelyn Glennie playing a succession of percussion...
- Dame Evelyn Glennie: percussion's "first" lady.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: American Music Teacher Fellows, Esther June 1, 2008 700+ words
Percussionist Evelyn Glennie gives more than 100 performances a year, performing solo, with...percussion. Esther Fellows: How did you get your start in music? Evelyn Glennie: I began percussion in Comprehensive School at age 12. I had...
- A Different Drummer; Percussionist Evelyn Glennie, Feeling the Sounds of Silence
- Newspaper article from: The Washington Post Pamela Sommers March 5, 1994 700+ words
...percussionists do their time in the rear of the orchestra. But Evelyn Glennie, one of the world's few classical percussion soloists...over, Beethoven, and make room in the history books for Evelyn Glennie, who is both profoundly musical and profoundly deaf...
- Great Scot or great human being, it doesn't matter as long as they're giving...
- Newspaper article from: Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland) June 22, 2003 700+ words
SCOTS musician EVELYN GLENNIE overcame deafness to become the greatest percussionist in the...forget the fortune, forget the worldwide critical acclaim, Evelyn Glennie is driven by one thought - making a difference to the lives of...
- SCOTTISH PERCUSSIONIST EVELYN GLENNIE IS RIVETING IN SEATTLE...
- Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA) Campbell, R.M. November 19, 1997 700+ words
...accomplishment. Two guests played prominent roles: conductor Sergiu Comissiona, well-known in Seattle, and percussionist Evelyn Glennie in her local debut. As the soloist in Joseph Schwantner's 1994 Percussion Concerto, Glennie made a huge impact on the...
Source: HighBeam Research, More jazz than not.(The Music)(Sound Recording Review)