| Title: | Welcome to the CD Notes Conference |
| Notice: | Welcome to COOKIE |
| Moderator: | COOKIE::ROLLOW |
| Created: | Mon Feb 17 1986 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Mar 03 1989 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 1517 |
| Total number of notes: | 13349 |
Without rehashing the liner notes (how wonderful to have some),
the material for this disc was recorded in Russia with the Dimitri
Pokrovsky Singers and Paul Winter. As a result, you have a wide
ranging mix of music within each of the tunes: traditional Russian
folk music and modern jazz/NA.
There is some annoying tape hiss, very intrusive in the quietest
passages. Nevertheless, the quality of the music is outstanding.
| T.R | Title | User | Personal Name | Date | Lines |
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| 1084.1 | Wonderful work | TALLIS::LIU | morgman | Mon Sep 26 1988 11:43 | 18 |
I especially love the first song on the album:
"Kurya Funk"
The whole album is an effective fusion of the two influences.
The chanting Russian voices are well-integrated into the
modurn jazz instruments. As usual for Paul Winter, the music
is making a social/political statement: if Russian music and
American music can make such wonderful harmony, why can't
our governments? He's made similar statements with integrating
animal calls and howls with human jazz.
Hear him live in concert if you get the chance. I've heard him
three times, twice in the cavernous Cathedral on St. John the Divine
in New York, where he is artist-in-residence.
Morgan
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