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August 13, 2009
The Marriage of Classical and Jazz, part 1
Pianist Bill Mays has had an illustrious career mixing jazz improvisation with classical composition, and his albums in the third-stream movement have helped move the genre forward. Here Pandora's Steve Ginsberg and I talk with Mays about the relationship between classical and jazz, and about Mays' history with both, starting with the night he heard Miles Davis live in the late 1950s. The music in this piece is provided by the Inventions Trio, featuring Marvin Stamm on trumpet and flugelhorn, Alisa Horn on cello, and Mays on piano. (10 mins.)
MUSICAL TERMS INCLUDED IN THIS PODCAST
| Transcribing | Touch | Bossa nova | Mood |
| Movement | Concerto | Exposition | Coda |
| Third-stream | Acoustics | Soundscape | Harmonic structure |
| Freebag (free jazz) | Development | Theme | Recapitulation |
Here's the link to the artist profile for Bill Mays on Pandora, from which you can launch Bill Mays Radio.
Below, some of the artists he mentions in this interview.
JAZZ ICONS AND EARLY LIVE INSPIRATIONS
by Earl "Fatha" Hines |
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by Earl "Fatha" Hines |
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by Miles Davis |
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by Miles Davis |
CLASSICAL COMPOSERS ACCESSING MORE MODERN HARMONY
by Sergey Prokofiev |
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by Sergey Prokofiev |
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by Claude Debussy |
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by Claude Debussy |
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by Erik Satie |
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by Erik Satie |
CHAMBER JAZZ
by the Modern Jazz Quartet (John Lewis on piano) |
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by the Modern Jazz Quartet (John Lewis on piano) |
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by Jimmy Giuffre |
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by Jimmy Giuffre |
OTHER THIRD-STREAM INNOVATORS
by Duke Ellington |
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by Charles Mingus |
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by George Gershwin |
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by Gunther Schuller |
For more information on Bill Mays and samples of his music, please return for Part 2 of this program, which will premiere on August 26, 2009.
