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