Hi O-10 - I went back and found the Andre Previn jazz piano clip you say your "controversy" is about. "Elevator music" is a pretty good description, actually. For me, the best that can be said of it is that it is very light entertainment, and while there is nothing wrong with that, it is certainly not great art. The string accompaniment is pretty cheesy stuff. Previn is a musician who could do a lot of different things very well, but no one of them truly great, and I mean by that world class, on a consistent basis. There are certainly much better examples of his piano playing, both in the jazz and classical idioms, than the ones you have posted here. I heard a record of his jazz playing that was pretty cool once, but I just checked, and I don't own any of it, so unfortunately I can't tell you what the title of the album was.
I am also not understanding why you felt the need to post the entire Wikipedia entry on Previn a couple of times?? I am very familiar with who he is and what he has done in his career in a general sense, as is Frogman. I have never met or worked with him; I don't know if Frogman has. I am not so familiar with much of his recorded output as a pianist. Being an orchestral musician myself, I am naturally therefore more interested in him as a conductor than as a pianist, and I am much more familiar with his work in that field, where again I would describe him as good, not great.
I own only seven or eight classical albums where he is the conductor - most of them where he is conducting the music of British composers, which he was justly well known for. In particular, he recorded much of the music of Ralph Vaughn Williams with the London Symphony on RCA, and I have a few of those. There is also a good recording he did of William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, also with the London Symphony, on Angel. That one has an interesting cover, too.....
I am also not understanding why you felt the need to post the entire Wikipedia entry on Previn a couple of times?? I am very familiar with who he is and what he has done in his career in a general sense, as is Frogman. I have never met or worked with him; I don't know if Frogman has. I am not so familiar with much of his recorded output as a pianist. Being an orchestral musician myself, I am naturally therefore more interested in him as a conductor than as a pianist, and I am much more familiar with his work in that field, where again I would describe him as good, not great.
I own only seven or eight classical albums where he is the conductor - most of them where he is conducting the music of British composers, which he was justly well known for. In particular, he recorded much of the music of Ralph Vaughn Williams with the London Symphony on RCA, and I have a few of those. There is also a good recording he did of William Walton's Belshazzar's Feast, also with the London Symphony, on Angel. That one has an interesting cover, too.....