Music is often one of the most important parts of creating a fully formed viewing experience, the thing that makes or breaks a piece of storytelling. Whether or not you are familiar with him, Tree Adams has been the composer bringing you those sounds on many of your favorite television shows, from Californication to Sirens to Legends and The 100, which premieres its third season tonight on The CW…
Music is often one of the most important parts of creating a fully formed viewing experience, the thing that makes or breaks a piece of storytelling. Whether or not you are familiar with him, Tree Adams has been the composer bringing you those sounds on many of your favorite television shows, from Californication to Sirens to Legends and The 100, which premieres its third season tonight on The CW…
Music is often one of the most important parts of creating a fully formed viewing experience, the thing that makes or breaks a piece of storytelling. Whether or not you are familiar with him, Tree Adams has been the composer bringing you those sounds on many of your favorite television shows, from Californication to Sirens to Legends and The 100, which premieres its third season tonight on The CW…
Back in the late 1960s, Solid State put out four LPs in their series Jazz for a Sunday Afternoon. The five titles with Dizzy Gillespie have been more recently reissued on a two-CD Blue Note set titled Live at the Village Vanguard. Laserlight improves upon the packaging by including two additional titles (from Vol. 3) on their first two CDs; unfortunately, the two lengthy songs ("Satin Doll" and "Straight No Chaser") from a Harry "Sweets" Edison date that comprised Vol. 4 remain out of print. The first disc of this three-CD set has a very interesting, if sometimes erratic date matching Gillespie with violinist Ray Nance (sometimes replaced by trombonist Garnett Brown), baritonist Pepper Adams, pianist Chick Corea, bassist Richard Davis, and either Mel Lewis or Elvin Jones on drums. Nance's violin playing is adventurous and eccentric, and there are some loose moments, but Dizzy holds the music together and Pepper Adams is in top form.
John Adams’ 2005 opera explores the personal and moral issues surrounding the invention of the atomic bomb. Captured live in concert, it has colossal power and conviction. At its center is Gerald Finley’s commanding performance as Robert Oppenheimer, a scientist wracked by doubts. Having sung it at the premiere and many times since, he produces a magnificently characterized creation. Julia Bullock, Brindley Sherratt, Samuel Sakker, and Andrew Staples are all superb in supporting roles and Adams himself draws virtuoso playing from a truly galvanized BBC Symphony Orchestra. A major recording of a modern operatic classic.