RARE TRAX is a continued series of promotional samplers given away with the german edition of Rolling Stone magazine since the 1990's and has reached volume 80 already. Each version covers a special topic and presents lesser known songs and/or artists.
Pianist Steve Kuhn, accompanied by David Finck and Billy Drummond, explore classical works by a number of top composers from the 19th and 20th centuries on this Japanese release, though they are used as a launching pad for improvisation. Maurice Ravel's "Pavane for a Dead Princess" is recast as a soft samba, also incorporating a bit of an earlier standard that was derived from the French Impressionist's piece, "The Lamp Is Low." Chopin is obviously one of Kuhn's favorite classical composers, as three of his features, highlighted by a dreamy setting of "Nocturne in E Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2." He brightens the tempo of Claude Debussy's "Reverie" while retaining its lyricism, while slowing Johannes Brahms' "Lullaby" to a crawl and demonstrating how a master jazz pianist utilizes space as an element of improvisation.
In seinem Buch „Erde im Aufruhr” ruft Immanuel Velikovsky die Erde als Zeuge an. Der Leser sollte mit dem katastrophistischen Ansatz des Autors, wie in seinem Werk „Welten im Zusammenstoß” dargelegt, vertraut sein. Demnach wurde die Erde in historischer Zeit von ihren Nachbarplaneten Venus und Mars empfindlich in ihrer Bewegung gestört. …