Results for "Moondog"

Death Is Not The End and the Law of Periodical Repetition

by Skip Heller
January 22, 2021

"Will this wonderful civilization of today perish? Yes, everything perishes. Will it rise and exist again? It will—for nothing can happen that will not happen again. And again, and still again, forever. It took more than eight centuries to prepare this civilization— then it suddenly began to grow, and in less than a century it is ...

Sylvain Rifflet

Saxophonist, Clarinettist and French composer, graduated from the Conservatoire de Paris, Sylvain Rifflet is the winner of the competition of La Defense and has received several awards including a "victoire du jazz" and a "Django d’or". He has performed or recorded with many musicians, including some of the "must-see" performers on the European scene (Louis Sclavis, Aldo Romano, Michel Portal, Kenny Wheeler, Riccardo Del Fra ...) but also alongside American musicians such as Joey Baron, Jon Irabagon, Jon Hollenbeck, or Michael Formaneck ... Spearheading the young generation of jazz musicians from the first decade of the 21st century, he has collaborated with those who are today on the front of the European "new scene": Verneri Pohjola, Airelle Besson, Thomas de Pourquery , Alban Darche, Pascal Schumacher, Rembrandt Freirichs, Florian Weber, Eve Risser, Sébastien Boisseau, Henning Sieverts and Fred Pallem ..

Prestige Records: An Alternative Top 20 Albums

by Chris May
June 9, 2020

Along with Alfred Lion's Blue Note and Orrin Keepnews' Riverside, Bob Weinstock's Prestige was at the top table of independent New York City-based jazz labels from the early 1950s until the mid 1960s. Like those other two labels, Prestige built up a profuse catalogue packed with enduring treasures. Originally a record retailer, Weinstock ...

Moondog

Born: May 26, 1916

Louis Thomas Hardin (May 26, 1916 – September 8, 1999), known professionally as Moondog, was an American composer, musician, performer, music theoretician, poet and inventor of musical instruments. Largely self-taught as a composer, his prolific work widely drew inspiration from jazz, classical, Native American music which he had become familiar with as a child, and Latin American music.His strongly rhythmic, contrapuntal pieces and arrangements later influenced composers of minimal music, in particular American composers Steve Reich and Philip Glass.

Moondog: Piano Trimba

By Moondog

Label: Shiiin
Released: 2019
Track listing: Für Fritz, Chaconne in A Minor; Fleur de Lis; Barn Dance; Canon 2, Op. 67; Divisi 2: I; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: I; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: II; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: IV; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: VI; First Look, then Sound; Ma petite; Caribea; Deuce 1: II; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: V; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: XXII; Mother's Whistler, Chaconne in C Major; I'll Tell You a Story; Ambideque 1: I; I'll Tell You a Story - Arranged for Harpsichord; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: VIII; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: X; Canon Book V: XII; Canon Book V: XVI; Short Spot; Mazurka; Rue Lette; Canon Book 3, Op. 65: XVIII; Canon Book V: IV; Canon Book V: XVII; The Square Monkey; Ma Petite - Arranged for Harpsichord; Archey Says.

Erk - Moondog

By Moondog

Label: Rockwerk Records
Released: 2019
Track listing: Bye, Bye, Manhattan; Anolion; Down the Donau; BACH; Logrundr 26, Organ Book 1; Jeanie; Hanging Gardens; Ka-Choo; Symphony No. 34 - 1. Mov.; Logrundr 1, Organ Book 1; Tout Suite No. 20 - 1. Mov.; Romany Road; Tamagotshi; Symphony No. 47 - 3. Mov.; Logrundr 1, Organ Book 2; Canon in A minor; My Contribution; Hymn to Peace; Logrundr 19, Organ Book 1; My Kind of Avenue.

The Stockholm 1981 Recordings

By Moondog

Label: Brus & Knaster
Released: 2019
Track listing: A Furore; Bifrost; What Is the Name; See the Mighty Tree; Buri, Borr; See the Tree; Rollo; Ten Legs.

NY Free Quartet, Michael Gregory Jackson & Marc Jufer

by Maurice Hogue
May 1, 2019

There's a wide variety of great tunes this episode: Club D'Elf kicks it off with the title track to their latest live set, saxophonist Muriel Grossmann and her quartet acknowledge the musical and mystical paths of John Coltrane, the New York Free Quartet's Dream Time marks their return to releasing excellent work, and the very influential ...

Moondog: Round the World of Sound

By Moondog

Label: New World Records
Released: 2016
Track listing: Bells Are Ringing; Voices of Spring; What's The Most Exciting Thing; All is Loneliness; My Tiny Butterfly; Why Spend a Dark Night with You?; Coffee Beans; Down is Up; Be a Hobo; Remember; I Love You; Nero's Expedition; No, The Wheel Was Never Invented; With My Wealth; This Student of Life; Some Trust All; Wine, Women and Song; Sadness; Maybe; Each Today; Imagine; You, the Vandal; Trees Against the Sky; Behold; Sparrows.

Live From Old York: Laura Jurd, Annie Whitehead, Brooks Williams & Koshka

by Martin Longley
December 23, 2016

Laura Jurd's Dinosaur National Centre For Early Music November 11, 2016 Dinosaur are one of the UK's fastest rising new bands, although their recent re-naming hides a few years of history as the Laura Jurd Quartet. The London foursome still look even younger than their actual ages, thus qualifying as ...