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Jazz Interpretations of the French Impressionist Musical Revolutionaries Erik Satie and Claude Debussy
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Jazz has had its fair share of musical revolutionaries. Charlie Parker in the 1940s. Ornette Coleman in the late '50s and John Coltrane in the '60s.Erik Satie and Claude Debussy were revolutionaries in the classical music world of 19th century France, and both have been a powerful influence on generations of jazz artists.
Satie pushed boundaries with music that lacked bar lines and exhibited ambiguous tonality. Debussy was the first composer to cultivate a musical language that broke free of the melodic and harmonic traditions of tonality. Labelled as an "impressionist," after the impressionist painters, he commented that "music is made up of colors and rhythms. The rest is a lot of humbug, invented by frigid imbeciles riding on the backs of the masters."
Join me, Larry Slater, TheJAZZMD, for an hour of jazz interpretations of these two composers who changed the course of musical history. The hour features music from Ulf Wakenius, Kirk Knuffke, Cyrus Chestnut, Mary Halvorson, Enrico Pieranunzi and Richard Galliano.
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