Jazz for aficionados

I asked Learsfool what did he think of Andre Previn as a classical musician, and he hadn't heard any classical music by Previn; I looked but failed, and I responded.


I have jazz by Andre Previn, and I tried to find some classical music by him, but this is all I found.

                          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwEuR2TtW5c

Maybe you could find some classical music by him and paste it so we can hear it. Or any classical you like best.


learsfool
1,167 posts
03-20-2016 1:45am
Orpheus, in the classical world, Andre Previn is mainly known as a conductor, though he did write a few pieces. He also wrote a few film scores. I don't think I have ever even heard any of his classical compositions, let alone played them. Certainly they are not performed very often, especially if he is not conducting them. His recordings I have heard where he is a conductor did not particularly impress me. Not saying they are not good, just that there are much better conductors.


Learsfool, this is the classical Andre Previn; could you give a critique?


    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fvU5OGdVFNc


Enjoy the music.



Frogman chimed in a conversation that didn't involve him one way or the other, and this is what he said;


frogman
2,654 posts
03-20-2016 9:08am
I would add that the posted Previn link is not "classical" music at all. It is Previn playing a twelve bar blues with orchestra sweetening. Previn is a wonderful musician, but this is pretty bland stuff; taking into account the differences in genres, no better than what one hears from Kenny G in an elevator. Just because it is played by an orchestra does not make it
"classical". O-10, what do you think of this?:

Now why would I think "Like Young", my favorite piece by Andre Previn since 1959, to be classical music?


Frogman, I never said it was classical, I would have to be a MOWRON to think that was classical music. I stated this was all I could find by Previn , and I asked Learsfool to find some classical music.


remember that word that you used, with unfounded indignation, describing what you thought I (and another esteemed aficionado who I will not include in this bs) felt that you were? You know.....that word that rhymes with "boron"? I am saddened to have to report that I believe you were correct in using that word.

Now Frogman is saying that "Learsfool", that's the esteemed aficionado he's referring to, thought I was a MOWRON. Learsfool never made any such statement in a conversation that Frogman had no business commenting on what so ever; the conversation was between Learsfool and I.


Enjoy the Frogman.

In addition to "Like Young" by Andre Previn, he played some real hip "West Coast" jazz. I suppose you have to get in a laid back west coast groove with a glass of wine to dig Andre; his music is what was happening in LA in the late 50's, "Beatniks" were in; he even did the soundtrack for a movie titled "The Subteraneans"; here's "Jeru", as Miles called him, and Art Farmer with music from that movie. The man plays some real hip piano, but not everybody can dig it; that's the way it is with all things that are truly hip.


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=puUeyUAX3Is


Jeru's baritone is one hip sounding sax, but not everybody can dig it;


            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo537jPaFPc



Enjoy the music

"It is Previn playing a twelve bar blues with orchestra sweetening. Previn is a wonderful musician, but this is pretty bland stuff; taking into account the differences in genres, no better than what one hears from Kenny G in an elevator."

That's what Frogman had to say about "Like Young" by Andre Previn. One of us is "Phaking the Phunk", and it might be me; but it's for sure one of us is Phaking the Phunk".   According to my evaluation "Like Young" is boss, and here are some other people who think so as well;



            https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCZxvAG5wHg



Ella Fitzgerald doesn't think "Like Young" is elevator music.

Linda Lawson doesn't think "Like Young" is elevator music; it jump started her career.


              https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CA81pRYtEXc


Now it's either me or Frogman is "Phaking the Phunk"; one of us is not a true jazz "aficionado".  




Enjoy the music.

Aficionados, feel free to weigh in on this controversy; that's the only way it will be resolved; when I say "aficionados", I don't mean the peanut gallery, but those who have contributed to this thread.

From my point of view, Frogman has been on a mission lately, and the evidence is quite blatant; but since Frogman is a musician, and you value a musicians input over a sincere and honest evaluation of the music, I have no problem with that; but to put this in the vernacular of the West "This town ain't big enough for the both of us", Frogman has made that quite apparent.

Disregard the fact that I started this thread because it can't function without you; unfortunately you have to make an ugly decision for the thread to continue.



Enjoy the music.