If by a "Liberal" they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people - their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties - someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad; if that is what they mean by a "Liberal," then I'm proud to say I'm a "Liberal."
- John F. Kennedy
Wednesday, February 18, 2015
Coltrane on the recorder
I can't even fathom how long it must have taken to get this right.
Looking at the man who did it, I'd have to guess that it took about 30 years. :-) First, he had to acquire that level of technical proficiency...
Seriously, the tradition of playing jazz... real jazz... on recorder began, to my uncertain knowledge, in 1962 when (in)famous recorder soloist Bernard Krainis of NYC commissioned jazzer Bob Dorough to write a blues work for recorder quartet and percussion (instrumentation was ATTB plus assorted hand percussion). The work was released on Krainis's "Sweet Pipes" album as "Eons Ago Blue" and is regrettably NOT the same work of that name which appears in a YouTube video, though the concept is the same... early instruments, modern music.
I have a vinyl copy of "Sweet Pipes" somewhere in the house, GK where, on a somewhat battered phonodisc that I somehow acquired in my high school days. As it is not available on a digital medium, I can't easily pop it in the drive and put it up for you. Maybe some ambitious young recorder group will record a nice digital track for us...
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Looking at the man who did it, I'd have to guess that it took about 30 years. :-) First, he had to acquire that level of technical proficiency...
Seriously, the tradition of playing jazz... real jazz... on recorder began, to my uncertain knowledge, in 1962 when (in)famous recorder soloist Bernard Krainis of NYC commissioned jazzer Bob Dorough to write a blues work for recorder quartet and percussion (instrumentation was ATTB plus assorted hand percussion). The work was released on Krainis's "Sweet Pipes" album as "Eons Ago Blue" and is regrettably NOT the same work of that name which appears in a YouTube video, though the concept is the same... early instruments, modern music.
I have a vinyl copy of "Sweet Pipes" somewhere in the house, GK where, on a somewhat battered phonodisc that I somehow acquired in my high school days. As it is not available on a digital medium, I can't easily pop it in the drive and put it up for you. Maybe some ambitious young recorder group will record a nice digital track for us...
Very nicely done, Mark! Thanks for pointing me to your performance!
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