All the 4 classic piano solos by the great Donald Lambert - his complete (!) records output before 1949. Thanks for composing this post (and the valuable shellac photos)! All 4 tracks are classical composittions (1: Richard Wagner, from opera "Tannhaeuser", 1845; 2: Edvard Grieg, from "Peer Gynt Suite No.1", 1888; 3: Gaetano Donizetti, from opera "'Lucia di Lammermoor" 1835; 4: Jules Massenet, from "10 Pièces de genre, Op.10" and the musical play "Les Érinnyes" 1872). They were recorded for Bluebird in New York on Jan. 30th, 1941. They form - together with Art Tatum's version of Antonín Dvořák's "Humoresque" - the cornerstone for the tradition of jazzing up classical music (long before Jacques Loussier & Eugen Cicero). (Even though this idea is by no means completely new - one can find corresponding approaches already in pop and jazz recordings of the 1910s and 1920s). For unknown reasons, these tracks are missing from Brian Rust's legendary jazz discography - and incomprehensibly, the Elegy has not yet been digitally re-released (on CD/as MP3), at least as far as I know.
All the 4 classic piano solos by the great Donald Lambert - his complete (!) records output before 1949. Thanks for composing this post (and the valuable shellac photos)!
All 4 tracks are classical composittions (1: Richard Wagner, from opera "Tannhaeuser", 1845; 2: Edvard Grieg, from "Peer Gynt Suite No.1", 1888; 3: Gaetano Donizetti, from opera "'Lucia di Lammermoor" 1835; 4: Jules Massenet, from "10 Pièces de genre, Op.10" and the musical play "Les Érinnyes" 1872). They were recorded for Bluebird in New York on Jan. 30th, 1941. They form - together with Art Tatum's version of Antonín Dvořák's "Humoresque" - the cornerstone for the tradition of jazzing up classical music (long before Jacques Loussier & Eugen Cicero). (Even though this idea is by no means completely new - one can find corresponding approaches already in pop and jazz recordings of the 1910s and 1920s). For unknown reasons, these tracks are missing from Brian Rust's legendary jazz discography - and incomprehensibly, the Elegy has not yet been digitally re-released (on CD/as MP3), at least as far as I know.
sorry, I have mixed up number 3 and 4; #3 is by Massenet, #4 by Donizetti