African Waltz [Import] [Limited Edition] [Original recording remastered]

Product Description
Japanese version featuring a limited LP style sleeve cover. Digital K2 remastering. Includes 1 bonus track.

African Waltz,Cannonball Adderley,Jvc Japan,Hard Bop,Jazz,Modern Big Band,Pop,Soul-Jazz

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Average customer rating: Cannonball Bold Disappointing

African Waltz Cannonball Adderley Manufacturer: Ojc ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Similar Items: Them Dirty Blues ASIN: B000000YEL Release Date: 1991-07-01

Tracks:

1. Something Different
2. West Coast Blues
3. Smoke Gets In Your Eyes
4. The Uptown
5. Stockholm Sweetin'
6. African Waltz
7. Blue Brass Groove
8. Kelly Blue
9. Letter From Home
10. I'll Close My Eyes
11. This Here

Customer Reviews:

Cannonball Bold.......2005-04-10

Listen to "Stockholm Sweetinin'". Now you know how a Big Band should sound.

Disappointing.......2005-02-20

Made on 2 separate dates in 1961 with a big band, this album is not among Cannonball's best. Almost all the tempos are in the medium range, and the music seems to drag. "West Coast Blues" gets a nice playing, but the album on whole disappoints.

Average customer rating: remarkable evocation of a bygone style Wodehouse the magnificent The Rolls Royce of Zez Confrey recordings.

Zez Confrey Piano Rolls and Scores Manufacturer: Warner Classics ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General Modern | Modern, 20th, & 21st Century | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music General | Easy Listening | Pop | Styles | Music Similar Items: Confrey: Piano Music Keyboard Wizards Of The Gershwin Era, Vol.4 James Scott: The Complete Works 1903-1922 American Beauties: The Rags of Joseph Lamb Complete Stark Rags of Joseph F. Lamb ASIN: B00007KMNW Release Date: 2003-04-01

Tracks:

1. Dizzy Fingers
2. The Red Lantern
3. By The Waters Of The Minnetonka
4. Novelette
5. Waltz Mirage
6. Greenwich Witch
7. Afghanistan
8. Kitten On The Keys
9. Kinda Careless
10. The Sheik Of Araby
11. Heaven's Garden
12. Stumbling
13. Jaywalk
14. Tap Dance Of The Chimes
15. Humorestless
16. That Thing Called Love
17. Midsummer's Nightmare
18. Tricks
19. Coaxing The Piano
20. Concert Etude
21. My Pet
22. Relaxation
23. Fantasy Of Today

Customer Reviews:

remarkable evocation of a bygone style.......2003-07-25

In some ways, Artis Wodehouse's Disklavier realization of Zez Confrey's lighter-than-air pianistic joyrides is an even more impressive accomplishment than her previous restorations of Gershwin and Jelly Roll Morton piano rolls. Confrey's novelty style seems the truest musical embodiment of F. Scott Fitzgerald. It is fascinating to hear the spirit of the 20s come to life in such a nerve titillating way. Especially remarkable are the selections hand played by Ms. Wodehouse into the Disklavier. Though they are designated on the jacket liner notes, by ear it is impossible to tell the difference-- a tribute to the complete success and seamless integrity of her stylistic resurrection.

Wodehouse the magnificent.......2003-04-25

I've heard Artis Wodehouse play in other venues and she is an artist of the most amazing versatility and profound knowledge, not to mention astounding energy. This CD is exciting to listen to, friends play in their workplaces to add zip to life there. It will bring you tremendous enjoyment.

The Rolls Royce of Zez Confrey recordings........2003-04-10

If you already know and enjoy Zez Confrey's music, this disc belongs in your collection. If Confrey is unknown to you, this disc still belongs in your collection, unless of course you find joyful, exuberant piano music to be repugnant.

For those new to Confrey, here's a brief description:

Edward Elzear Confrey (known to all as Zez) was a self-described composer of novelty piano music, his way of trying to describe music that was at once influenced by ragtime, early jazz, popular songs, and classical composers, particularly Debussy and MacDowell. His music rarely if ever aspires to emotional profundity, but its sheer joy, bounce, and tunefulness make it hard to put down once you've started, whether as listener or pianist. As an amateur pianist, I've been playing Zez Confrey's music for 20 years. The reactions I have gotten from people over the years have been consistently the same; "Wow! Who wrote that?", and "Are there recordings of this music I can buy?". Now, this disc gives me an easy answer to the second question.

This disc is Artis Wodehouse's fourth disc devoted to her amazing humanized piano rolls. The first two covered a good cross-section of George Gershwin's piano rolls, while a third was a collection of piano rolls by Jelly Roll Morton. This is easily her finest work since the first "Gershwin plays Gershwin" disc in 1993.

Zez Confrey, like his contemporaries George Gershwin and Jelly Roll Morton, left behind a well-rounded collection of acoustic gramophone recordings as well as paper piano rolls. The least sophisticated of these paper rolls merely captured the notes that the pianist played and nothing more. Once the roll was published and sold, it was the job of the consumer, operating his or her own reproducing piano, to mechanically add pedaling, rubato, and dynamics as he or she saw fit. However, the most sophisticated reproducing rolls captured not only the notes but the pedaling, rubato, and dynamics used by the pianist, often with uncanny accuracy. All paper rolls allowed the pianist the option of post-production editing, e.g., removing wrong notes, and in popular music such as this, adding dazzling "third hand" counterpoint effects that made the end result unplayable by a human pianist. Confrey was one the best at this, and he uses this technique liberally throughout the rolls on this disc. (For those of you familiar with Confrey's "Kitten on the Keys" or "Dizzy Fingers" in their standard published versions, you're in for a treat once you hear Confrey's souped up three-handed versions presented here.) Still, even the best of these paper rolls played back on the best reproducing pianos could never be mistaken by an astute listener for a human being (two-handed or otherwise). There was always a discernible gap between playing produced in the human realm and that of the mechanical realm, that is until relatively recently. The explosion of digital technology has allowed such things as computerized reproducing pianos like the Yamaha Disklavier to become a readily available reality. Recordings made and played back on such pianos are virtually indistinguishable from live human performances. It wasn't long before people like Artis Wodehouse starting exploring ways to apply this technology to the old paper rolls, finally enabling listeners to experience what it might have been like to hear pianists like Gershwin, Morton, and Confrey recorded in the flesh, and in modern sound. By taking the information encoded on these old paper rolls and feeding it into a Yamaha Disklavier system, she has been able narrow the gap between human playing and mechanical playing to the point of near nonexistence. Through careful study of Confrey's actual playing from acoustic recordings, Wodehouse has softened the mechanical edges, painstakingly adding those qualities that distinguished Confrey's playing in the flesh, effectively making each roll indistinguishable from an actual human performance.

On the first Gershwin disc from 1993, several of the rolls she chose had been previously recorded in their original paper roll form. Having heard these original paper roll recordings, listening to Artis Wodehouse's humanized versions of these same rolls was like seeing an old film before and then after restoration. In short, it was a revelation.

This new Zez Confrey disc easily lives up to these high standards Wodehouse set for herself, indeed this disc may even set the bar higher. This time around, not only is Wodehouse working from two different types of paper rolls, she is actually playing some of the pieces herself, works that Confrey did not record, but that deserve a place on any disc of Confrey's music. The joyful bounce and rhythmic snap of her playing so perfectly matches Confrey's own playing that it becomes impossible to tell which tracks are hers and which are Confrey's. The result is an amazingly seamless and unified blend of musicianship, scholarship, technological know-how, with an astute understanding of the individual elements that made Confrey's playing unique. Whether as pianist or digital editor, with this CD, Wodehouse has done more for Confrey's music than has anyone before her. The results are well worth hearing.

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The Waltz Project Revisited: New Waltzes for Piano Manufacturer: Albany Records ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Waltzes | Ballets & Dances | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Harrison | Harrison, Lou | ( H ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Karchin, Louis | ( K ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Thomson | Thomson, Virgil | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Tower | Tower, Joan | ( T ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music All Works by Glass | Glass, Philip | ( G ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music Character Pieces | Short Forms | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Chamber Music | Forms & Genres | Classical (c.1770-1830) | Historical Periods | Classical | Styles | Music General | Keyboard | Instruments | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Chamber Music | Classical | Styles | Music Similar Items: Piano Music of Argentina ASIN: B0006A9FQE Release Date: 2004-11-30

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Ellington and the Modern Masters: Music of African-American Composers Manufacturer: The Orchard ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Ellington | Ellington, Edward Duke | ( E ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Concertos | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music Symphonies | Forms & Genres | Classical | Styles | Music | Baroque | Classical | General | Modern & 20th Century | Romantic | Sinfonia | Sinfonia Concertante General | Classical | Styles | Music Detroit Symphony Orchestra | ( D ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music ASIN: B00008G5BR Release Date: 2000-08-29

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African Waltz Cannonball Adderley Manufacturer: Jvc Victor ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000GIWN10 Release Date: 2006-09-04

Album Description

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve and features two bonus tracks. Riverside.

Album Details

Japanese Limited Edition Issue of the Album Classic in a Deluxe, Miniaturized LP Sleeve Replica of the Original Vinyl Album Artwork.

Average customer rating: An album that grows on you

Crossing Over the Bridge Cole Porter , and Ronnie Scott Manufacturer: Mca ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD All Works by Porter | Porter, Cole | ( P ) | Featured Composers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music London Symphony Orchestra | ( L ) | Featured Performers, A-Z | Classical | Styles | Music General | Classical | Styles | Music General | Opera & Vocal | Styles | Music ASIN: B00000DWAD Release Date: 1990-10-25

Customer Reviews:

An album that grows on you.......2005-08-29

There are some albums you listen to a lot in the first few months and then tire. This one is the opposite. I have had this album about 7 years and it wasn't until it got onto my PC and tracks started turning up on random play that I really started to realise how good it is.

It is crossover music being recorded with both a jazz ensemble and the London Symphony Orchestra. The crossover genre (if it is one genre) has always attracted me since it is a pathway from pop to jazz to classical to world music to ...

The tracks cover a range of positions on the spectrum from Symphonic through big band swing to intimate (modern) jazz solos. Though most often heard accompanying his wife, Dame Cleo Laine, the consistent high quality of both composition and arrangement here has lead me to hold Dankworth himself in high regard.

Rather a lot of composers have had a bash at variations on a theme by Paganini but Dankworth's is up there with the best, which considering this includes Liszt, Brahms and Rachmaninov....!

The weak spots for me are the easy listening tracks such as "every time we say goodbye" and "the shadow of your smile". There is nothing wrong with these tracks it is just there are other versions that I prefer.

On the other hand, Afterglow and Sing Sing Sing are Dankworth originals which deserve to be standards. There is also humour in the form of the Three Blind Mice variations which is musically superb and illustrates Dankworth's versatility.

If you are looking to broaden your musical interests or just mining for undiscovered nuggets then this album has plenty to offer.

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African Waltz Cannonball Adderley Manufacturer: Jvc Japan ProductGroup: Music Binding: Audio CD Bebop General | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music Hard Bop | Bebop | Jazz | Styles | Music General | Jazz | Styles | Music Soul-Jazz & Boogaloo | Jazz | Styles | Music Contemporary Big Band | Swing Jazz | Jazz | Styles | Music Jazz | Imports | Stores | Music ASIN: B000056P9B Release Date: 2001-03-06

Tracks:

1. Something Different
2. West Coast Blues
3. Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
4. Uptown
5. Stockholm Sweetnin'
6. African Waltz
7. Blue Brass Groove
8. Kelly Blue
9. Letter from Home
10. I'll Close My Eyes
11. This Here
12. Uptown [Alternate Take]

Album Details

Japanese version featuring a limited LP style sleeve cover. Digital K2 remastering. Includes 1 bonus track.

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