Yesterday in Dead Musicians ♪♫ - September 3 09-03: Morton Feldman : Coptic Light / Tilson Thomas 1995 | Rothko Chapel / New Albion 1990 - Harry Partch : The Bewitched 1957 / CRI - Canned Heat : Living the Blues 1968 - Noah Howard : The Black Ark 1969 - Coleman Hawkins : The Hawk Flies High 1957 1708 – Christian Liebe (German composer & organist, teacher of Andreas Silbermann) 1714 – Pietro Antonio Fiocco (Italian composer & choirmaster) 1790 – Thomas Norris (English organist, composer & singer) 1811 – Ignaz Fränzl (German violinist & composer) 1871 – Václav Emanuel Horák (Czech composer, church musician & teacher) 1914 – Albéric Magnard (French composer) 1944 – František Drdla (Czech violinist & composer) 1946 – Paul Lincke (German composer & violinist, "Berliner Luft") 1946 – Moriz Rosenthal (Polish pianist, composer & wit) 1951 – Robert Hernried (Austrian composer, musicologist & music editor) 1960 – Joseph Lamb (American ragtime composer) 1963 – Frico Kafenda (Slovak composer, teacher, pianist & conductor) 1964 – Joseph Marx (Austrian composer, teacher & music critic) 1970 – Alan "Blind Owl" Wilson (American blues-rock singer, songwriter, guitarist & harmonica player, Canned Heat) 1974 – Harry Partch (American experimental composer, instrument inventor, music theorist & hobo) 1981 – Mafalda Favero (Italian operatic soprano) 1984 – Dora Labbette (English operatic & concert soprano, mistress of Sir Thomas Beecham) 1985 – Johnny Marks (American writer of many Christmas songs, e.g. "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer") 1985 – Papa Jo Jones (American jazz drummer) 1985 – John Herbert McDowell (American composer for dance, theater & film) 1987 – Morton Feldman (American experimental composer) 1994 – Major Lance (American R&B & soul singer) 2007 – Carter Albrecht (American rock keyboardist & guitarist, Edie Brickell & New Bohemians) 2010 – Noah Howard (American free jazz alto saxophonist) ************************************************* Harry Partch - The Bewitched (CRI) 1. Prologue: The Lost Musicians Mix Magic {18:08} 2. Scene 1: Three Undergrads Become Transfigured in a Hong Kong Music Hall {5:29} 3. Scene 2: Exercises in Harmony and Counterpoint are Tried in a Court of Ancient Ritual {5:07} 4. Scene 3: The Romancing of a Pathological Liar Comes to an Inspired End {5:31} 5. Scene 4: A Soul Tormented by Contemporary Music Finds a Humanizing Alchemy {5:40} 6. Scene 5: Visions Fill the Eyes of the Defeated Basketball Team in the Shower Room {4:19} 7. Scene 6: Euphoria Descends a Sausalito Stairway {4:16} 8. Scene 7: Two Detectives on the Trail of a Tricky Culprit Turn in Their Badges {5:30} 9. Scene 8: A Court in Its Own Contempt Rises to a Motherly Apotheosis {5:26} 10. Scene 9: A Lost Political Soul Finds Himself Among the Voteless Women of Paradise {5:56} 11. Scene 10: The Cognoscenti are Plunged into a Demonic Descent While at Cocktails/Epilogue {9:17} University of Illinois Musical Ensemble Recorded at the 1957 Festival of Contemporary Arts, University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana front: http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_z6o9VQHitFY/SPS6MrXSviI/AAAAAAAABKE/IppN_2YsKsk/s1600-h/oi409r32.jpg mp3 (2 parts): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=B4XXDD15 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=E0IK9GRT ************************************************* Canned Heat - Living The Blues (Liberty, 1968) 1 - Pony Blues - 3:51 2 - My Mistake - 3:24 3 - Sandy's Blues - 6:49 4 - Going Up The Country - 2:53 5 - Walking By Myself - 2:31 6 - Boogie Music - 3:19 7 - One Kind Favor - 4:47 8 - Parthenogenesis - 19:07 9 - Refried Boogie - 41:09 Canned Heat Bob Hite – vocals Alan Wilson – Slide Guitar, vocals, Harmonica Henry Vestine– Lead guitar Larry Taylor – Electric Bass Fito de la Parra – drums Additional Personnel Dr. John - Horn Arrangements, Piano (Boogie Music) Miles Grayson - Horn Arrangements (Sandy's Blues) Joe Sample - Piano (Sandy's Blues) front: http://image.betamonline.com/sdimages/disk19/547895.jpg mp3@256: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=GVD5QBPD ************************************************* Coleman Hawkins - The Hawk Flies High (Riverside, 1957) 01. Chant (Jones, Jones) - 5:08 02. Juicy Fruit (Sulieman) - 11:16 03. Think Deep (Smith) - 3:24 04. Laura (Mercer, Raksin) - 4:34 05. Blue Lights (Gryce) - 5:44 06. Sancticity (Hawkins) - 9:10 Coleman Hawkins (tenor saxophone) Idrees Sulieman (trumpet) J.J. Johnson (trombone) Hank Jones (piano) Barry Galbraith (guitar) Oscar Pettiford (bass) Jo Jones (drums) front: http://cache2.artprintimages.com/p/LRG/21/2183/4FPCD00Z/art-print/coleman-hawkins-the-hawk-flies-high.jpg mp3: http://www.filesonic.com/file/1314610844/Coleman%20Hawkins-%281957%29-The%20Hawk%20Flies%20High.rar ************************************************* Morton Feldman - Coptic Light (argo, 1995) 1. Piano and Orchestra (1975) - 22:49 2. Cello and Orchestra (1972) - 21:05 3. Coptic Light (1985) - 29:42 Alan Feinberg - piano Robert Cohen - cello New World Symphony Orchestra Michael Tilson Thomas front: http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_z6o9VQHitFY/S513ddl5wDI/AAAAAAAAC_0/kQbfa1KeOW8/s1600-h/39903-2.jpg mp3 (2 parts): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=JBY14102 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=RHVPFI7R ************************************************* Morton Feldman - Rothko Chapel / Why Patterns? (New Albion, 1990) 1. Rothko Chapel (1971) Karen Rosenak (Cello) William Winant (Percussion) Deborah Dietrich (Soprano) David Abel (Viola) UC Berkeley Chamber Chorus Philip Brett 2. Why Patterns? (1978) California EAR Unit front: http://www.technodisco.net/img/tracks/m/morton-feldman/897788-morton-feldman-rothko-chapel--why-patterns.jpg mp3 (2 parts): http://www.megaupload.com/?d=Y3YHXEP5 http://www.megaupload.com/?d=F8ZSN0KJ ************************************************* Noah Howard - The Black Ark (Bo Weavil, 1969) 1 Domiabra - 10:31 2 Ole Negro - 8:49 3 Mount Fuji - 15:31 4 Queen Anne - 5:43 Mohammed Ali - Drums Earl Cross - Trumpet Arthur Doyle - Tenor Sax Noah Howard - Alto Sax Norris Jones - Bass Juma Sultan - Conga Leslie Waldron - Piano front: http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ADwx1hbTg6s/TUsge_DAfVI/AAAAAAAAANM/OevEOuC6Wio/s1600/folder.jpg mp3: http://www.mediafire.com/?dtmxuk2dat0d0hc ************************************************* http://yesterdayindeadmusicians.blogspot.com/