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JIPC

Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — The Straddlers, Part One

Time to look at the maverick mavericks, composers with feet firmly planted on either side of the dividing line between jazz and classical.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: David Amram, Friedrich Gulda, Gunther Schuller, James P. Johnson, jazz piano concerto, JIPC

Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Balancing Acts at Symphony Hall

What makes pianist Jean-Yves Thibaudet an ideal interpreter of Ravel’s Concerto in G is his understanding of and appreciation for jazz.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Jazz, Music, Review Tagged: Bernard Haitink, Boston Symphony Orchestra, jazz-influenced piano concerto, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, JIPC, Maurice Ravel’s Concerto in G, programming

Fuse Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — A Real Tradition, but of What?

The tradition of hybrids is there, for anyone who chooses to use it. Our modern media world makes that tradition accessible in hitherto unimaginable ways.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: classical, Claude Debussy, hybrid, Jazz, Jazz-Influenced Piano Concertos, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, JIPC, Johnny Hodges, Ravel Concerto in G

Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1960 – 2004

More composers who followed their own distinctive paths when they incorporated jazz into their piano concertos.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Avner Dorman, Jazz, jazz-influenced piano concerto, JIPC, John Adams, Malcolm Williamson, Paul Schoenfield, Piano Concerto, William Thomas McKinley, Yehudi Wyner

Jazz Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1938-1983

More composers who followed their own distinctive paths when they incorporated jazz into their piano concertos.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Benjamin Britten, Jazz, jazz-influenced piano concerto, JIPC, Piano Concerto, Tobias Picker, William Bolcom, William Schuman

Music Commentary Series: Jazz and the Piano Concerto — Mavericks, 1923-1955

This first group of mavericks all have their roots in the 1920s, but they demonstrate that George Gershwin’s way wasn’t the only way.

By: Steve Elman Filed Under: Classical Music, Commentary, Featured, Jazz, Music Tagged: Aaron-Copland, Dana Suesse, Erwin Schulhoff, George Gershwin, JIPC, Leo [Leopold] Smit

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