Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers at

Miles Davis Kind of Blue, then the Essential Dave Brubeck.  It's a jazz kind of day.

Bill, tgo

Was listening to Kind of Blue again just a few weeks ago.

Chick Corea and the Steve Gadd Band (just got tickets for their performance in Mpls, on 10/10).  Jazz for me too.

Enjoyed Steve & the Steeps, Dave.   

I just started reading Bill Wyman's book, which prompted me to have youtube playing Jimmy Reed all day at work.

Bill, tgo

Fantasia contrappuntistica (BV 256) is a solo piano piece composed by Ferruccio Busoni in 1910. Busoni created a number of versions of the work, including several for solo piano and one for two pianos. It has been arranged for organ and for orchestra since the composer's death.

The work is in large part a homage to Johann Sebastian Bach's Die Kunst der Fuge. Conversely, Kaikhosru Shapurji Sorabji's Opus clavicembalisticum appears to be a homage to Fantasia contrappuntistica. Busoni dedicated the work to Wilhelm Middelschulte, "Meister des Kontrapunktes".

The composer Kenneth Leighton (1929–1988) also wrote a Fantasia Contrappuntistica ("Homage to Bach", Op.24) for piano, which won the first prize at the Bolzano Piano Competition (1956), premiered by Maurizio Pollini.[1]

     For SOLO Organ

    For two Pianos

I recently attended a local live performance of this work of music last Saturday  where my friend Jerry Kuderna  played one of the pianos .

It was truly fantastic ! 


Wolf

This is quite nice; John McLaughlin and some students from Berklee's Valencia, Spain campus playing Coltrane's arrangement of .

I didn't realize this wasn't a band at first; but then I began noticing that the performance wasn't exactly "tight", and then began noticing that they were watching him for cues.  Still, it's a wonderful performance of this classic tune, and they were all having fun.

Here is Kenneth Leighton's Fantasia Contrappuntistica that Wolf mentioned.  Amazing composition, wonderfully interpreted by the pianist, Ching-Yun Hu.

I'm a hopeless Turner Classic Movies fan.  Fortunate, all I need for 'surround 'sound' for the old flicks is one speaker !

Right now, they're running all three versions (the original from 1938, and the two succeeding remakes) of 'A Star is Born' on demand.  My favorite is the second from 1954, with Judy Garland and James Mason.  The NEXT time you hear someone talking about 'selling the song' and what separates artists from us mere mortals, think of this.  listen to her effortlessly motor through the wonderful chord changes in the bridge, just remarkable.

https://www.bing.com/search?q=the+man+that+got+away+judy+garland&form=EDGEAR&qs=AS&cvid=362df18408734ae498762b91bc8f11aa&cc=US&setlang=en-US

Corea/Gadd Band last weekend



Pharoah Sanders tonight



Hudson tomorrow night



A couple of good weekends of musuc!

The Corea/Gadd video suggests a great evening of music.

Yes, David, it was a great show.  You should try to catch them if they come your way!

With good thoughts to our friends in the fire zone:













Peter (who advises anyone in TX, LA, AL, FL, PR, etc., to skip this one.....)