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BACHanalia

Label: Metro
Released: 2017
Track listing: Sleepers Wake; Afluencia; Piano Concerto No. 3, 1st Movement; Solfeggietto; Blame It on My Youth; Goldberg Contraption; The Three-Cornered Hat; I’ve Got You Under My Skin.

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Sleepers Wake

August 6, 2017

Album: BACHanalia
By Bill Cunliffe
Label: Metro
Released: 2017
Duration: 7:01

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Bill Cunliffe: BACHanalia

Read "BACHanalia" reviewed by Jerome Wilson

by Jerome Wilson
July 25, 2017

This is another entry in the durable “jazz meets the classics" subgenre with pianist and bandleader Bill Cunliffe leading a large ensemble through a fun program featuring mostly classical works and familiar standards.The classical adaptations start off with Johann Sebastian Bach's “Sleepers Awake" played with crisp, muscular drive by the band. Cunliffe and trombonist ...

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Bill Cunliffe: BACHanalia

Read "BACHanalia" reviewed by Jack Bowers

by Jack Bowers
June 24, 2017

As the title denotes, pianist Bill Cunliffe and his ensemble take a swing (literally) at the great Johann Sebastian on BACHanalia, pivoting as well toward the music of C.P.E. Bach, Sergei Prokofiev, Manuel de Falla, Cole Porter, Oscar Levant and Cunliffe himself. In spite of its classical veneer, this is at its core a jazz session, ...