Friday, June 21, 2024

Improvisation and Ives || Fascinating discussion! [American music]

From the YouTube page:

The second installment of the Society's popular series of panels about Charles Ives, All the Way Around and Back! This very entertaining conversation features an in-depth look at the fascinating and even surprising convergences between the music and influence of Charles Ives and the history and current practice of jazz, big band, blues, rock, film music, and pop. Moderated by Judith Tick, the panel includes Jack Cooper, Bill Frisell, Eric Hofbauer, Ethan Iverson, Phil Lesh and David Sanford.

If you don't want to listen to the whole interview, which is a bit over two hours, start at about 1:33:19 where they play "The Alcotts" from Ive's Concord Sonata. Then listen to the conversation that follows, that ranges from Ives through Beethoven, Keith Jarrett, and John Williams, to parlor piano, on to Thelonious Monk and then to being a church organist, as Ives had been.

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