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The Fourth Of July, 2017

July 3, 2017

It is always a challenge to decide how Rifftides should celebrate the anniversary of the independence of The United States Of America. In 2017, we are observing it with pieces by artists whose careers began on the west coast of the US before their names and their music became familiar around the world. Both works are ...

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America The Beautiful

By Alan Broadbent

Label: Jan Matthies Records
Released: 2014
Track listing: Between The Lines; Sonata For Swee' Pea; Woody 'N' Me; Covenant; The Long White Cloud; Love In Silent Amber; Sonny's Step; Mendocino Nights; America The Beautiful.

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Alan Broadbent And NDR Bigband: America The Beautiful

Read "America The Beautiful" reviewed by Edward Blanco

by Edward Blanco
June 4, 2014

Being a part of the big band sound was an experience pianist Alan Broadbent embraced, endured and eventually, wanted to step away from. Orchestra music--comprised of boisterous reeds and brass sections--were far too loud and too big drowning out the finesse sounds of the acoustic piano. When Broadbent left the Woody Herman Big Band in 1972, ...

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Alan Broadbent And NDR Bigband: America The Beautiful

Read "America The Beautiful" reviewed by Dan Bilawsky

by Dan Bilawsky
April 5, 2014

In the brief liner essay that accompanies America The Beautiful, pianist Alan Broadbent notes that he has “an aversion to being clever," but the rest of the music world never received that memo. Everybody from Irene Kral to Diana Krall and Charlie Haden to Charlie Rich has benefited from his brilliance with a pen and/or a ...

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America The Beautiful

Featuring the music of Charlie Haden's New Liberation Music Orchestra
Duration: 9:38
April 16, 2010

New Liberation Music Orchestra - live at Marciac, 2004 // a film by Frank Cassenti // Carla Bley - piano, conductor / Charlie Haden - bass / Chris Cheek - sax / Ahnee Sharon Freeman - french horn / Joe Daley - tuba / Michael Rodriguez - trumpet / Seneca Black - trumpet / Tony Malaby - sax / Miguel Xenon - sax / Curtis Fowlkes - trombone / Matt Wilson - drums / Steve Cardenas - guitar

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America the Beautiful

By Clare Fischer

Label: CFP
Released: 2003
Track listing: Ornithardy; Quiet Dawn; Bittersweet; Igor; Extension; Soloette; Passacaglia; Canto Africano; On a Clear Day; A Time for Love; I Remember Spring; America the Beautiful; I

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Clare Fischer: America the Beautiful

Read "America the Beautiful" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
March 3, 2003

America the Beautiful is a union of two unassuming vinyl big-band albums by composer/ arranger/ pianist Clare Fischer: Extension (from the early ’60s) and Songs for Rainy Day Lovers (released in 1978). Although Fischer is widely known for his proficiency in blending Latin temperaments and rhythms into the framework of contemporary jazz, only “Canto Africano” from ...

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