Jazz Articles about Charles Ives

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Charles Ives: Concordance: 150 Years of Charles Ives

by Doug Collette
April 15, 2026

As the archiving team at the Owsley Stanley Foundation (including the namesake's offspring) has overseen its wealth of 1500-some recordings, they have done yeoman's work to insure that the reputation of the man nicknamed 'Bear' is inextricably linked to his passion for the best possible sound he could facilitate. In that regard, the range of content that the non-profit has issued is broad enough to dispel any knee-jerk preconceptions about the vocation of the man otherwise known as mentor ...

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Charles Ives: A Radical In a Suit and Tie

by Nic Jones
August 24, 2008

Rescued from the archives, A Radical In a Suit and Tie represents the premiere recordings of Charles Ives's best-known works from the mid-20th Century; composed approximately half a century before that, this music has lost little of its singular impact, which says much about Ives' musical vocabulary.

It's not difficult to see how this music influenced the likes of Frank Zappa and Van Dyke Parks; but on a profound level, the influence should not be overplayed, as it works to ...