Cherokee Rose - To All The Wild Horses - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

Performing under the name Cherokee Rose in the 1980s and '90s, Rose's debut - Buckskin - existed in a sort of suspended-animation issued as a small run cassette-only demo tape and sold at shows direct to a smattering of fans in 1993. No record tag, no distribution. Rose doesn't own a cassette deck on which to play it today. In fact, Rose hadn't heard her earliest recordings in over fifteen years when she was approached with the idea to reissue them.InchI wrote 'Black Irish Indian' in 1980, and released it in 1993, but maybe the song's time and place is actually 2021,Inch Rose Moore intimates. Such staggering self-awareness and personal reflection should come as no surprise from an artist who has spent decades considering her personal identity, her place within her own various ancestral histories and how she is informed by these three seemingly-disparate backgrounds which unite within her own expression.1. I'm Not Ready 2. Sweet Fire 3. Plain Jane Princess4. Kick Back 5. Let's Right 6. What We've Been Through7. Black Irish Indian8. To All The Wild Horses 9. Gypsy Wind 10. Colored Blues 11. Maybe Next Week

There are several parallels to be found in the lives of the Southern French composer Darius Milhaud (1892-1974) and the Moravian-Bohemian composer Bohuslav Martinu (1890-1959). Both needed the metropolis of Paris, that seething artistic melting pot after the First World War, in order to refine their originality; both were open to all kinds of musical styles, from South American folklore to North American jazz through to Bachian counterpoint; finally, both had to flee the Germans in France in 1940, heading for the USA - Milhaud on account of being a Jew, and Martinu as a patriotic Czech in exile. The two composers' complete works for string trio, contrasted here for the first time, uncover various similarities - even though each work bears the hallmarks of it's composer, and Martinu's trios were written in Paris, whilst Milhaud did not compose his until he had reached America. The works are characterised by a playful, spirited tone as well as the charm of Mediterranean and Czech folk tunes. But there is also what Milhaud termed, and valued, as InchdisciplineInch in chamber music strict counterpoint and technical skill - utilised radically, without slipping into dry pedantry. These are four marvels of intimate music-making, assembled by the Jacques Thibaud Trio with their own artistic instinct and flair.

Petruta Kupper - Jazz Chopin 1810-2010 [COMPACT DISCS] date 05/01/2010