A few pictures from Juan-Les-Pins, where every year there's "Jazz à Juan", a famous festival that dates back to 1960. This year, it takes place from July 9 to July 19. If you have kids and don't want to pay the tickets, the venue is right at the park and you can listen to the music for free, with a bottle of wine, while the little ones are having a good time too.
Probably my only post for today, Sonny Rollins and Rufus Harley (with bagpipes!) playing "Swing Low Sweet Chariot" in 1978, London.
Have a fine day!
Today I say goodbye with Narciso Yepes playing Bach's Prelude (Passaggio, Presto) and Bourrée BWV 996 on his 10-string guitar for the Spanish Television in 1976.
A few pictures from Saint Paul de Vence, France, which was home to Marc Chagall.
(I'll add a few more as a reply to this post.)
If you're already sick of the news, let's have a better start of the week with Puccini's "Nessun Dorma", magnificently interpreted by the tenor Jonathan Tetelman together with the Lithuanian National Orchestra.
For both ladies who follow this account, a history page with Annie Fischer playing Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 10, in G major, Op. 14 No.2, III. Scherzo: Allegro Assai. (1976)
Have a beautiful day!
Open that whiskey bottle and let's enjoy Lee Morgan working that trumpet for "I Remember Clifford" together with Benny Folsom (sax), Bobby Timmons (piano), Art Blakey (drums) and Jymie Merritt (bass).
Recorded at L'Olympia, Paris, on November 22, 1958.
We can have "Nostr Shorts" too. Today, Angela Gheorghiu as Violetta in Verdi’s La Traviata.
Always a mood-booster, Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2, and Valentina Lisitsa rocks it.
Have a great weekend!
Herbert von Karajan and Berliner Philharmoniker performing Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 "From the New World". (Berlin Philharmonie, 1966)
Watching this black-and-white video, I can't resist asking myself how it would be for us to be able to watch Bach or Mozart, for example. 🤷
For your coffee break, Nina Simone playing "I Wish I Knew How It Would Feel To Be Free". (Montreux, 1976)
I say goodbye with guitars. Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola and John McLaughlin showing off with "Mediterranean Sundance".
Have a fine evening!
"Siegfried’s horn call."
As a side note, or a "fun fact", the coincidence is that Klaus Florian Vogt was a horn player before becoming a tenor. Still, the horn that you hear is played by Giovanni Emanuele Urso, principal horn player.
View quoted note →If you've been reading the news lately, you might need regular brain cleansing, like me. For today's lunch break, Rusanda Panfili (violin) and Donka Angatscheva (piano) are playing Jules Massenet's "Meditation" from Thaïs, for Violin and Piano. (Vienna, 2016)
A moment of peace with Clark Terry's "My Gal Blues". (France, 1973)
Because jazz doesn't tell you when to clap...
For today's coffee break, a change of rhythm with Cochemea playing "Pyramid of the Sun", live at National Sawdust, Brooklyn, NY.
Did you ever hear Bach's Air with a soprano?
The added pop elements "scratch" me a bit, but I'm also not a pro and I shouldn't judge.
That being said, let's listen to Wendy Kokkelkoren.
For your afternoon coffee, Khatia and Gvantsa Buniatishvili playing Piazzolla's Libertango. ☕🤌
If you're looking for a suggestion, let's go with Maxim Vengerov mastering Brahms' Violin Concerto in D Major, Op. 77.
I uploaded an "amuse bouche" and added the YouTube link for the whole performance.
A good way to end the day and the week, before God knows what craziness will bring us the month of March, Strauss' homage to Nietzsche, "Also sprach Zarathustra", with Gustavo Dudamel and Berliner Philharmoniker.
