Hancock vs Ravel

[Bryn]

An improv on the Ravel G major adagio ? Wow, I'd love to hear it... there's a great creative tradition of such things e.g. Uri Caine's take on Beethoven's Diabelli Variations with no less than the Concerto Köln (if it's good enough for them etc...) or his remodellings of Mahler's Songs with his own ensemble, both on Winter & Winter....

Well-known that Mozart (probably never played the same Piano Concerto the same way twice..), Bach etc improvised in their own live music-making all the time... we need much more of it now, and why not on record...

Jan Garbarek's great in the right time & place... gloomy late night, just before bed.....
Just don't overplay them, is all...

From a favourite CD in my modest collection:

[antongould]

Skellers ended his week with guess what ..... Rhapsody In Blue ... if I heard correctly played by Lang Lang and Herbie ..... I rather enjoyed it .......... !!!!!!!

[vinteuil]

my modest collection...

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[Nick Armstrong]

Indeed. Saint-Saëns's Third gets everywhere, even England Rugby crowds, for instance.

Does it?!

[jayne lee wilson]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJFu...&start_radio=1

Wonderful! I remember dancing to that off my bloody head - polka dot dresses, Sibelius 5th, 80s Pop Classics.... sigh, swoon etc...

[french frank]

I'll keep asking then

I've been listening to this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zwem...&frags=pl%2Cwn

Not unpleasant, but it didn't hold my interest for more than a few minutes (a bit longer because it was solo piano than if it had been other instruments) - merely reflecting my taste in music. In any case: jazz musician plays jazz - not sure that that proves much in this present context.

[Serial_Apologist]

Wonderful! I remember dancing to that off my bloody head - polka dot dresses, Sibelius 5th, 80s Pop Classics.... sigh, swoon etc...

Then I'm probably old enough to be your father. I've always wondered that...

[MrGongGong]

Not unpleasant, but it didn't hold my interest for more than a few minutes (a bit longer because it was solo piano than if it had been other instruments) - merely reflecting my taste in music. In any case: jazz musician plays jazz - not sure that that proves much in this present context.

So you missed the Victorian hymn tunes then?