Jazz & classical

[TC Chris]

The NYT has a regular piece on "Five Minutes That Will Make You Love ______." Here's "Duke Ellington."

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/arts ... music.html

And here's classical:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/arts ... music.html

For me, while the choices are mostly great music, they're a bit challenging as introductory pieces.

Chris Campbell

[19&41]

In jazz, much of what I listen to is from the library I've built up. Here is a little Gershwin as interpreted by Coleman Hawkins' swing four. I can't take a track from my collection, this is from YouTube.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7m8DRt ... einzBecker

[TC Chris]

Thanks for that.... love Coleman Hawkins!

Chris Campbell

[Firedome]

Can't read the NYT piece w/o subscription, so annoying! I'd like to know their classical choices.
I'm already an Ellington fan, and particularly of his alter-ego genius Billy Strayhorn.
Jazz/blues ranks about even with classical as my favorite, especially 1920 to 1970.

[19&41]

The nice thing about Ellingtons music are the changes it made over the time he led his band(s). I like his music of the Cotton Club era and the Blanton-Webster era as well as the Strayhorn era. The band became different with each influence and each has their own character.