YouTube is one of the great resources on the internet. I am sure I am not telling you anything new, but I truly believe it is only getting better in the recent years. This is especially true since YouTube lifted the 10 minute limit on videos. Recently, I have watched live concerts featuring Miles Davis, Mike Mainieri, and Genesis to name a few. Today’s video of the Monty Alexander Trio is no exception. The camera and audio angles are fantastic and there a lot to learn from watching a live concert. This video features Monty Alexander (piano), Jeff Hamilton (drums) and John Clayton (bass) at Jazz in Marciac. Enjoy!
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on May 25, 2012.
It has been a while since we featured the music of Peter Klatzow. Today’s video features a recent performance of Figures in a Landscape (1985) by Natalia Gerakis (Flute) and Zhe Lin (Marimba). Have you played any pieces by Klatzow? Which are your favorite pieces?
From YouTube Description:
Peter Klatzow is one of the few South African composers to achieve international recognition. He stats: “Re-establishing the primacy of tonality, without excluding non-tonal music as an extension of musical means. Concerning the musical language his aim is: broadening a vocabulary which can and does communicate”. Figures in a Landscape for Flute and Marimba is a challenging and demanding composition in free form.
Figures in a Landscape makes part of the Concert Programm CONTINENTS.
Natalia Gerakis, one of the most accomplished greek flutists and Zhe Lin, several times award winning marimba virtuoso from China, present an exciting world journey through the continents: from Europe to North and South America, via Africa, Asia and Oceania including impressinonist, modern and contemporary compositions for Flute & Marimba.
The 2012 Trinidad & Tobago National Steelband Panorama Festival is this Saturday, February 18 in Queen’s Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, Trinidad & Tobago. The competition begins at 7:00pm (Trinidad Time – 6:00pm EST/3:00pm PST) and features performances of Large and Medium Steel Orchestras. The semi-finals took place on February 5 and Phase II (268), Trinidad All-Stars (268) and Silver Stars (263) are leading the large bands going into finals.
Here’s a video from the 2012 Panorama Semi-Finals of Neal & Massey Trinidad All-Stars performing Play Yourself.
For more Panorama coverage, please visit Pan on the Net. They have links to live video feeds that will be broadcasting the 2012 Panorama Festival. Good luck to all of the bands!
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on February 14, 2012 by Dave Gerhart
Our job at DrumChattr is to find cool drum/percussion stuff on the web and bring it to you, our valued readers. Today, while checking out Adam Sliwinki’s blog I ran across this clip of one of Dan Deacon’s works called Big Milk. In this post dated January 15th, Adam talks about Dan’s music and connects with his use of sampled keyboard percussion sounds. Click the link above for more of Adam’s thoughts. In the mean time enjoy!
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on February 13, 2012 by Thomas Burritt.
Ah…you have to love YouTube. In this video, Buddy Rich claims that playing traditional grip is the key to playing creatively behind the drums. I’ve often wondered why so many jazz drummers play this way. Do you think this is true? There is a GREAT moment toward the end of the solo he plays, and please cut us some slack on the language! Leave your thoughts below the post.
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on February 6, 2012.
Over the past week, I have been spending a lot of time looking for one more piece to fill out my percussion ensemble program. I found a lot of great pieces that I will be posting in the coming months. Today’s video features a performance by Ensemble 64.8 performing Last Waltz (2009) by Tim Constable.
This is the first of four movements contained in the work ‘Percussion Quartet No. 1′
by the young Australian percussionist and composer Timothy Constable, provides a new take on the traditional waltz. Taking from the dances’ lilting rhythms and reworking them to an unusual degree of complexity and syncopation, Constable creates a challenging and energetic percussion quartet that leads perfectly onto the other three movements of the work; ‘Tango,’ ‘Loop,’ and ‘Final Science.’ ‘Last Waltz’ contains sections of percussive counterpoint in which motives are passed between the performers, as well as powerful and energetic themes played in unison, creating dramatic moments of driving rhythm.
The work shown here was performed by Ensemble 64.8, the resident percussion ensemble at the University of Alaska, Fairbanks. (Performers from left to right: Morris Palter, Fiona Digney, Trevor Saint, and Eric Retterer.) Nov. 20 2010 at the Davis Concert Hall located on the UAF Campus.
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on February 3, 2012.
Today’s PATV features a more general look at the 1st movement to Eric Ewazen’s “Conerto for Marimba and String Orchestra”. We dig into the process of interpretation and a few other issues this work raises when it comes to performance. How do you work on the more general issues of interpretation when preparing a work for performance? Leave your comments below the video or in the comments below.
New to the series? Check out Part I, and Part II before watching.
While searching for a video for today’s post, I came across an a set of videos of Gary Burton and Chick Corea performing at the Internationale Jazzwoche Burghausen, Germany in 2011. This video features Chick and Gary performing Armando’s Rumba as a vibraphone duo.
Also, check out:
Eleanor Rigby
La Fiesta
Originally posted on DrummChattr.com on January 31, 2012.
