 Artist: Andre Previn: mp3 download Genre(s): Jazz Discography:  Double Play! Year: 1993 Tracks: 9  After Hours Year: 1989 Tracks: 11 One of the most versatile musicians on the planet, Andre Previn has amassed considerable credentials as a jazz piano player, despite sculpture out sort out lives first-class honours degree degree as a Hollywood organizer and composer, and then a first authoritative music music director, piano player and composer. Always fluid, melodious and swinging, with elements of Bud Powell, Oscar Peterson and Horace Silver assorted with a faultless technique, Previn hasn't changed much over the decades simply canful always be counted upon for polished, dependable performances at the drop of a hat. He started forte-piano lessons in his native Berlin earlier the Nazi menace forced his household to move to Paris in 1938 and the U.S. the following year. Settling in Los Angeles, the wunderkind Previn began working as a jazz pianist, an arranger for MGM, and a recording creative person for Sunset Records while tranquil in high schooling -- and by his 18th twelvemonth, his first recordings for RCA Victor had racked up significant gross sales. Originally swing-oriented, Previn ascertained boP in 1950 just ahead his inductance into the Army. Upon returning to Los Angeles, Previn went into overdrive, gigging as a jazz pianist, marking films and playing bedchamber euphony. Forming a legato boppish trio with Shelly Manne and Leroy Vinnegar, Previn scored a huge crossover hit with an album of jazz interpretations of My Fair Lady, which in turn lED to a series of like-minded albums of Broadway stacks and kicked off an industriousness trend. By 1962, Previn started to make the conversion away from Hollywood toward becoming a full-time classical conductor, falling his jazz activities alone. He stayed away from nothingness for 27 eld, with the exceptions of a handful of roger Huntington Sessions with Ella Fitzgerald and classical violinist/dabbler Itzhak Perlman. Indeed, in 1984, he was quoted as saying that nothingness was "an expendable artistic creation form" for him. But in March 1989, curtly before resigning from the Los Angeles Philharmonic in a dispute with direction, Previn returned to jazz with a trio album for Telarc with Ray Brown and Joe Pass, display that he had non bemused an iota of his abilities. Since then, he has returned often to the studio as a jazz piano player for Telarc, Angel, Deutsche Grammophon and DRG when not freelancing as a director or composition authoritative rafts. |
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