Dvoark Serenade

Serenade to a Soul Sister is an album by jazz pianist Horace Silver released on the Blue Note label in 1968, featuring performances by Silver with Charles Tolliver, Stanley Turrentine, Bennie Maupin, Bob Cranshaw, John Williams, Mickey Roker and Billy Cobham. The Allmusic review by Steve Huey awarded the album 4½ stars and calls it "One of the last great Horace Silver albums for Blue Note, Serenade to a Soul Sister is also one of the pianist's most infectiously cheerful, good-humored outings."

"While we often associate Leonard Bernstein's sense of trascendence with his ability to cross musical boundaries… or his skill in discussing and describing that nondiscursive art known as music with his singular eloquence, the two works presented on this recording, The Age of Anxiety and his Serenade after Plato's "Symposium", offer us an alternate perspective on Bernstein's artistry. Throughout his opus, as both a "longhair" composer and a composer of more popular forms, Bernstein had intertwined words with music - taking on Voltaire in Candide, for instance, or setting various psalms for his celebrated collection, The Chichester Psalms. In The Age of Anxiety and Serenade, Bernstein takes us one step further: he uses instrumental music to illustrate, expand, even explicate literary expression. They represent as such a curious reversal of what we can come to expect from this artist."

by Jackson Braider

Al Caiola And Friends - Deep In A Dream & Serenade In Blue (2016) {Fresh Sound Records FSR-CD 892 rec 1955}
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© 1955, 2016 Savoy / Fresh Sound Records | FSR-CD 892
Jazz / Cool / Guitar

When guitarist Al Caiola (1920) moved to New York after graduating he was quickly hired as a staff musician by CBS, where his skill and adaptability guaranteed him a heavy radio and TV schedule until he left in 1956; he was, in fact, one of the busiest, most successful and respected session men in New York City throughout the 1950s and 1960s. In 1955, at the peak of his success, he recorded “Deep in a Dream” and “Serenade in Blue” for Savoy Records, two albums which focused on a meticulous and reverent treatment of a collection of well-known standards and of his own originals. Technically impeccable, on these Caiola is backed by an excellent rhythm section, with pianist Hank Jones demonstrating his usual warmth and skill, aided by drummer Kenny Clarke and bassist Clyde Lombardi.