Gerry Mulligan - Spring in Stockholm: Live in Sweden, 1959 - COMPACT DISCS [CD]

With two critically-lauded releases on Navona Records, pianist Eliane Rodrigues returns with Reflets, showcasing the pianist's nuanced and thoughtful performances of fifteen works by Claude Debussy. While it might seem that child prodigies are commonplace in the world of classical music, only a few truly make a lasting impact, one that lives on long after those prodigies have passed well into their adulthoods. Mozart began to play piano at the age of three, Beethoven did so at seven and a half, and Georges Bizet did so before his tenth birthday. Pianist Eliane Rodrigues, who began composing at three, played her first recital at five and first performed with an orchestra when she was just six years of age, can certainly be counted among those prodigious musicians, as evidenced on her latest recording, Reflets. The album opens with InchSuite Bergamasque,Inch one of Debussy's most well-known piano suites. The dynamic contrasts in the moods of the suite's four pieces are well suited to Rodrigues' sensitive and vivid style. Debussy is credited as one of the 'founders' of Impressionist music, distinguished by it's focus on suggestions and atmosphere, a world that Rodrigues also inhabits here, as evidenced by her cascading and powerfully textured performance of Debussy's InchBallade.Inch InchPour le Piano,Inch certainly one of the composer's most moving works for solo piano, features rapid, brilliant passages that fully emphasize the pianist's virtuosity. That impressionistic ability to invoke a mood or a feeling carries on with InchFirst Arabesque in E Major,Inch one of a pair composed early in Debussy's career. InchImages,Inch comprised of two 'books' of three pieces each, ranging from the subdued InchHomage à RameauInch to the energy of InchMouvement,Inch marked by the torrent of notes in it's finale. Eliane Rodrigues was born in Rio de Janiero, where the performances tha

Founded in 1977 by Lionel Hampton, the Who's Who in Jazz tag existed as a means to present to the world the best musicians that the jazz world had to offer. With Lionel chairing the recording sessions (and also featuring on several of the sessions himself), these recordings have truly earned their title featuring jazz greats such as Buddy Rich, Charles Mingus, Terumasa Hino, Sonny Stitt, Teddy Wilson, Stéphane Grappelli and Dave Brubeck, amidst the many others. Lionel Hampton Presents Gerry Mulligan is a studio album recorded October 25, 1977 at Sound Book Studio, N.Y.C. and sees Mulligan team up with George Duvivier (bass), Grady Tate (drums), Vinnie Bell (guitar), Hank Jones (piano), Candido (congas) and Lionel Hampton (vibraphone) to showcase an array of well-loved compositions including 'Song for Johnny Hodges' and 'Blight of the Fumble Bee'.

Features such classics as InchCapricious,Inch InchHere I'll Stay,Inch InchInside Impromptu,Inch InchYou've Come Home,Inch and many more.