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☆ A 20-Year-Old Transcriber Is Turning Sheet Music Into Hot Content
  + stars: | 2024-03-12 | by ( Tristan Geary | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +2 min
For some budding musicians (and even old pros), the very sight of sheet music can elicit a fight-or-flight response, bringing up painful memories of strict piano teachers and high-pressure recitals. George Collier, a 20-year-old music transcriber, is doing his part to change that. Another clip, titled “She Practiced 40 Hours a Day for This,” captures a virtuosic Mozart piano cadenza by Mitsuko Uchida. While Collier specializes in jazz, he also showcases performances from the classical world, as well as everyday people with impressive talents. A clip titled “When Your Family Is Musically Competent” features a version of “Happy Birthday” that turns into improvised gospel-laden riffing.
Persons: George Collier, Collier, Wynton Marsalis, Celine Dion, who’ve, what’s, ” Collier, ”, Frank Lacy, Art Blakey, Mitsuko Uchida, Joe Turner’s “ Organizations: Warwick University, YouTube, Art, London Locations: United Kingdom
☆ Tony Bennett, masterful stylist of American musical standards, dies at 96
  + stars: | 2023-07-21 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +14 min
US singer Tony Bennett (Anthony Dominick Benedetto) performs on stage during an invitation only concert at the newly opened Encore Boston Harbor Casino in Everett, Massachusetts on August 8, 2019. "No country has given the world such great music," Bennett said in a 2015 interview with Downbeat Magazine. The evening's performance resulted in the album, "Tony Bennett: MTV Unplugged," which won two Grammys, including album of the year. Bennett would win Grammys for his tributes to female vocalists ("Here's to the Ladies"), Billie Holiday ("Tony Bennett on Holiday"), and Duke Ellington ("Bennett Sings Ellington — Hot & Cool"). He also won two Emmy Awards — for "Tony Bennett Live By Request: A Valentine Special" (1996) and "Tony Bennett: An American Classic" (2007).
Persons: Tony Bennett, Anthony Dominick Benedetto, Bennett, Antonia Benedetto, Frank Sinatra, Lady Gaga, Sylvia Weiner, Bennett didn't, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, Jerome Kern, Sinatra, Sinatra's, Cheek, Gaga, Carrie Underwood, Amy Winehouse, Winehouse, Oscar, Amy, Porter, George Gershwin, George Cory, Douglass Cross, Ralph Sharon, Ralph, Danny, David Letterman, Fred Astaire, Elvis Costello, Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, — Bennett, Louis Armstrong, Barbra Streisand, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder, Long, Susan Crow Benedetto, Anthony, Anna, James Infirmary, Bel, Miriam Spier, you'll, it's Bing Crosby, Art Tatum, Lester Young, Stan Getz, Joe Bari, Rosemary Clooney, Arthur Godfrey's, Pearl Bailey, Bob Hope, Mitch Miller, Hank Williams, Miller, Chuck Wayne, Chico Hamilton, Art Blakey, Count Basie, Harry Belafonte's, Martin Luther King Jr, Selma, Bennett's, Johnny Mandel's Oscar, Clive Davis, Tony, Bill Evans, Patricia Beech, Sandra Grant, Susan, Johanna, Antonia, Dae, —, Benedetto — Organizations: Associated Press, American, MTV, Ellington, New, Frank Sinatra School of, Arts, Armed Forces Network, Armed Forces Radio, American Theater, Arthur Godfrey's Talent Scouts, Greenwich Village, Paramount Theater, Sinatra, Columbia Records, Count Basie Orchestra, Army, Civil Rights Movement, Carnegie Hall, Columbia, IRS, Kennedy, National Endowment, Arts Jazz, Smithsonian Museum of American Locations: Everett , Massachusetts, Francisco, New York, San Francisco, Little Rock , Arkansas, Astoria, New York City, Queens, Italian, Germany, Greenwich, Montgomery, Los Angeles
☆ Wayne Shorter, master composer of jazz, dies aged 89
  + stars: | 2023-03-02 | by ( William Schomberg | ) www.reuters.com   time to read: +2 min
[1/3] U.S. Jazz saxophonist Wayne Shorter performs onstage during a 'tribute to Miles Davis evening' at the 45th Montreux Jazz Festival in Montreux July 13, 2011. REUTERS/Valentin FlauraudMarch 2 (Reuters) - American saxophonist Wayne Shorter, who wrote some of jazz's most acclaimed compositions and whose often plaintive playing changed the sound of jazz in the 1960s before he explored rock-fusion, died on Thursday aged 89. "The master writer to me, in that group, was Wayne Shorter," the keyboardist said. "Wayne was one of the few people who brought music to Miles that didn't get changed." Other hit records included "Native Dancer" featuring Brazilian singer Milton Nascimento which mixed jazz, rock and funk with Brazilian rhythms.
☆ ‘Bordeaux Concert’ by Keith Jarrett Review: An Ode to Spontaneity
  + stars: | 2022-09-24 | by ( Stuart Isacoff | ) www.wsj.com   time to read: 1 min
Pianist Keith Jarrett, a pioneer in several musical realms whose efforts were met with near-universal acclaim, can no longer perform. His multifaceted career included jazz ventures with the likes of Art Blakey , Charles Lloyd and Miles Davis ; classical endeavors in works by J.S. Bach , Bartók, Pärt and American-Armenian composer Alan Hovhaness ; and, most famously, expansive solo improvisations, such as the iconic “Köln Concert” of 1975, one of the best-selling piano recordings in history. Now, sidelined by two devastating strokes, both suffered in 2018, that part of his life has come to an end. Yet, numerous recordings are still in the can, and ECM is beginning to roll out a series of new issues—including a splendid solo concert captured live in Bordeaux, France, in 2016, to be released on Sept. 30.
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