How about Herbie Hancock's early 70s work? I find "Crossings" very engaging. "Water Torture" is a very spooky track and that brief riff in "Quasar" makes me think of 50s Sci-Fi B-Movies. In a good way.
Rhapsody in Blue has always worked for me. I must also admit to being a big fan of Herb Alpert's version of Aranjuez from the Rise album. Of course, that's an odd classical, jazz, and disco mix. Herb's a man of many skills and talents.
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Wow, this first track on Crossings, "Sleeping Giant", just got incredibly funky! He switched to piano and decided to lay it down thick with some very groovy chords.
I do think my tastes are growing towards Classical more though, I still love everything I have in my collection, but Classical has become more dominant. I just love it! I like the structure and direction Classical brings which is almost the opposite spirit of what Jazz is about, which is what makes both great! I'm certainly a classical pianists more than a jazz pianists I'd say, certainly.
I'm turning more to classical myself lately but in my experience it's quite coincidental and some sort of mood thing. It flips over constantly from one to the other (and to experimental music/prog rock/world music).
When I switched from pop&rock to classical in the mid/late 80s, I could not see myself listening to my old love anymore. There was so much to explore in classical. That lasted about 10 years, then I realized that although I was never done with exploring classical, I was missing my pop/rock music. For the past 15-20 years I've gone about 50/50 classical/pop&rock (OK, with some jazz thrown in as well), and I love that mix.
I vastly prefer classical over jazz, but do have a healthy jazz collection. Yesterday I listened to Coltrane's "Interstellar Space," for which the argument could be made that it owes as much to 20th-century classical compositions as it does to jazz.
I grew up in classical (played piano and cello all through school until college), then in college I was exposed to progressive rock (called "art rock" in those days), and some jazz. All of that has continued to expand scope. I'm particularly attracted to genre-crossing works that truly blend influences into something new.
A few favorites:
Dixie Dregs - southern rock, jazz, bluegrass - "What If", "Dregs of the Night"
Birdsongs of the Mesozoic - post-punk, jazz, classical minimalism - "The Iridium Controversy"
Univers Zero - chamber rock, heavy influence from Stravinsky and Bartok - "1313", "Heresie", "Ceux du dehors"
Thinking Plague - avant rock - "This Life", "A History of Madness"
I'm recently back into classical in a big way, having bought a piano and starting to play again for the first time in decades.
I've heard dashes of Rachmaninoff and Prokofiev in Art Tatum. Tatum is on the earlier side of azz anyway, still has that classical ragtime feel, so it hits that spot. And his Humoresque (Dvorak) is just lovely. There's quite a few versions but this one, although unfortunately of lower sound quality (although you do get to see him play, which is a plus) is my favorite. That rhythm in the beginning.. Mph.
I heard Horowitz say if Tatum switched to Classical, that he himself would be out of a job? That is some praise
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