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FILM

New pragmatic Bond score by Thomas Newman

Thomas Newman, having never written a proper action score before Skyfall, succeeded in updating Bond's aesthetic with a...
Big band

Take 'A' train jazz standard originated from Duke Ellington's letter

Take the 'A' Train is a Billy Strayhorn composition that became a signature tune of the Duke Ellington Orchestra and is...
FILM

The classic Morricone flavor in Tarantino's spaghetti western

The soundtrack for Django Unchained contains both original and existing works, featuring songs Quentin Tarantino...
SONGWRITER

Ellington's classic song established swing as a jazz form

It Don’t Mean a Thing (If It Ain’t Got That Swing) is a 1931 composition by Duke Ellington with lyrics by Irving Mills,...
Collaboration

Ravi Shankar and Philip Glass find a colorful meeting point for European and Indian classics

Almost three decades have passed since Philip Glass and Ravi Shankar collaborated and released the work Passages - a...
SONGWRITER

Who is the true architect behind The House of the Rising Sun?

The authorship of The House of the Rising Sun can not be accurately determined to this day, since the song is a folk...
ORCHESTRA

Defining Gershwin rhapsody was conceived on a train trip

Rhapsody in Blue is one of the most performed of all American concert pieces, and its opening clarinet glissando is the...
Collaboration

World musicians Kronos Quartet destroy the shackles of genre

Since its founding in '70s, the Kronos Quartet has become the foremost herald of chamber music, successful at breaking...
Collaboration

Metallica with San Francisco Symphony: fresh & heavy atmosphere of modern opera

It seemed like Metallica were running out of ideas at the end of the millennium. However, in 1999, they released S&M...
FILM

The Shape of Water bringing Alexandre Desplat his second Oscar trophy

Romantic fantasy film looks at the relationship between a mute woman who works at a government survey facility in...
SONGWRITER

Dazed and Confused: evolution through Led Zeppelin live shows

Dazed and Confused is the folk-song written by Jake Holmes in 1967. The song was recorded for his debut album and...
PIANO

Chick Corea's Spanish pulse in the masterful jazz standard

The son of a trumpeter, the genius pianist Chick Corea is referenced as one of the lead specialists in the fusion of...
TRUMPET

Chet Baker: the divine voice of the West Coast jazz

Chesney Henry "Chet" Baker Jr. was born in 1929 in Yale, Oklahoma. The son of musically inclined parents, he sang in...
FOOTBALL

Liverpool FC and the famous You'll Never Walk Alone chant in a Pink Floyd track

You'll Never Walk Alone is a show tune from the 1945 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical Carousel. The song has been...
SAROD

Ali Akbar Khan: the true guru of Indian classical harmony

The first key point of Indian classical music is its structure. Unlike the Western canons, it is structured horizontally...
Contemporary Composer

Glassworks by Philip Glass is flavored with Bach and Bowie

Philip Glass is an American composer, widely considered to be one of the most influential musicians of the late 20th...
FILM

Man of Constant Sorrow revived in the Coen brothers' classic

Man of Constant Sorrow is a traditional American folk song first published by Dick Burnett, a partially blind fiddler...
Classical Guitar

Asturias by Isaac Albéniz and its life in The Doors interpretation

Asturias is a famous work by the Spanish composer and pianist Isaac Albéniz. This piece, coming at around six minutes...

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