Showing posts with label chamber music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chamber music. Show all posts

Monday, December 7, 2015

Pop, R&B, Country, Classical, Jazz, Folk: More Billboard LP Charts, Week Ending 7 August 1965: Saturday Music Club on Monday (Part 2)

Part one here.
I'm 51 now, so it seemed fair to take a slice from the middle of the half-century-old chart.


















Pop Album Chart continued:
51. Chad and Jeremy Before and After

the album's title track

52. Joan Baez 5


53. Cal Tjader Soul Sauce


54. Nat King Cole Unforgettable


55. Bert Kaempfert Blue Midnight


56. Getz/Gilberto


57. The Ventures on Stage


























Classical Chart: Chamber Music:
1. Stern, Istomin, Rose  Schubert: Trio No. 1


2. Juilliard Quartet Bartok: Quartets


3. Julian Bream Consort An Evening of Elizabethan Music


4. Friedman, Prince-Joseph Bach: Sonatas for Violin & Harpsichord


5. Kohon Quartet Ives: Quartets Nos. 1 & 2

And since the Kohon Quartet's recording isn't posted, here's the Emerson Quartet

Country Albums:
1. Connie Smith


2. Eddy Arnold The Easy Way


3. Buck Owens I've Got a Tiger by the Tail


4. The Return of Roger Miller


5. Sonny James I'll Keep Holding On


R&B Albums:
1. The Temptations Sing Smokey


2. Billy Stewart I Do Love You


3. Junior Walker and the All-Stars Play Shotgun


4. The Four Tops


5. Billy Preston The Most Exciting Organ Ever


6. Little Milton We're Gonna Make It


7. The Best of Sam Cooke, Volume 2


8. Aretha Franklin Yeah!!!


9. The Miracles Greatest Hits from the Beginning


10. Nancy Wilson Today--My Way



Sunday, March 2, 2014

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: third stream music into chamber music

Chico Hamilton, Buddy Colette, Fred Katz, Steve Turre, Barry Finnerty: "My Funny Valentine" (comp. Richard Rodgers) and "Buddy Boo" (comp. Chico Hamilton)

Rather cheesy 1970s tv introduction.

John Lewis and Jim Hall: "Two Lyric Pieces: Pierrot; Colombine" (comp. John Lewis


John Lewis playing Bach

The Sextet of Orchestra U.S.A: "The Stranger" (comp Arif Marden)


Eric Dolphy, saxophone
John Lewis, piano
Benny Golson, trumpet
Gunther Schuller, French horn
Jim Hall, guitar
George Duvivier, bass

Svetlana Gorokhovich and Irina Portenko: "Points on Jazz (for Two Pianos): Prelude" (comp. Dave Brubeck)


Anthony and Joseph Paratore: the complete "Points on Jazz"

Orchestre national de France, conducted by Leonard Bernstein: "La creation du monde" (comp. Darius Mihaud)

The piece has six movements (including the Overture) :
Overture 0:00
I. The Chaos before Creation 3:55
II. The slowly lifting darkness, the creation of trees, plants, insects, birds and beasts 5:32
III. Man and woman created 8:48
IV. The desire of man and woman 10:48
V. The man and woman kiss (Coda) 14:54


Anne Mette Iversen and John Ellis: "Milo Man" (comp. Anne Mette Iversen)


Joe Morello with the Buddy Rich Big Band: "Take the 'A' Train" (comp. Strayhorn and Ellington)

Monday, December 31, 2012

Saturday Music Club on Sunday: some chamber music

Wu Man with the Kronos Quartet: "Mehbooba Mehbooba" (Rahul Dev Buhrman)


The Eroica Trio: "Trio No. 1" (Joaquin Turina) at the Tango Evolution concert


The Han Piano Trio: "Oblivion" (Astor Piazzolla)


The Turtle Island Sting Quartet: "All Along the Watchtower" (Robert Zimmerman)


The Modern Jazz Quartet and the Beaux Arts Trio: "Sketch" (John Lewis)


The Max Roach Double Quartet (The Max Roach Quartet and the Uptown String Quartet): "Bright Moments" (Max Roach)


The Dave Grisman Quintet: "Dawg's Rag" (Dave Grisman)


Wu Man with the Kronos Quartet: "Nursery" (Terry Riley)