Glorious Haendel Ms Bayo's voice glows in the rendition
of these pieces by Haendel, and the
accompanying instruments complement
her delivery exquisitely, both in
tone and mood. This is one of the most
successful albums by a classical
solo singer that I have heard this
year. Nathalie Dessay is the only other
soprano that comes to mind who could
conceivably bring this enterprise off. Submitted by a reviewer (Gainesville, FL, USA) Was This Cantatas & Opera Arias Music Review Helpful? YesNo
$8.69 Digitally remastered by Phil De Lancie (1990, Fantasy Studios, Berkeley, California.
The fullness of this duet album's sound suffers only slightly from the lack of a drummer, compensating with deeply satisfying intuitive interplay between pianist Evans and longtime collaborator Gomez. Evans experiments on INTUITION with the electric Fender-Rhodes piano for his original tunes, "Show-Type Tune" and "Are You All the Things," but he is at his most assertive ...
$6.29 With BIRTH OF THE COOL, Miles Davis distilled a new tonal palette for jazz. As early as 1954, Miles reacted to the escalating chordal complexity of hard bop by fashioning an evocative blues based on a simple scalar pattern ("Swing Spring"). KIND OF BLUE was the ultimate fulfillment of this approach, with Miles providing his collaborators little more than outlines for melodies and simple scales for improvisation. By emphasizing the blues and the improvisor's melodic gifts, KIND OF BLUE precipitated a major stylistic development--modal jazz.
Charles Mingus had experimented with pedal points throughout the 1950s, and the melodic freedom of Ornette Coleman's Atlantic sides was also predicated on freedom from chord changes. But KIND OF BLUE was to prove the most influential, enduring work of its kind. There was just such a vibe about these 1959 sessions--Miles' lyric genius and burgeoning stardom, the innovative voicings and rarefied touch of pianist Bill Evans, the electrifying presence of Coltrane and Cannonball--that some thirty-plus ...
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