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Turquoise: Mosaic of Anatolia
by AAJ Staff
Turquoise, an large improv group led by Turkish/Danish drummer Atilla Engin, takes the idea of world music and applies it in a much broader sense than the usual. First and foremost on this record, of course, is traditional Anatolian music--which constitutes three tracks. These reconstructions enrich the original Turkish melodies with African percussion and Afro-American jazz harmonies. The remainder of the record consists of a highly varied mixture of cultural elements, native instruments, and percussion from Anatolian, African, and Afro-American ...
read moreMinjung Lee Quartet Releases "Turquoise"
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Plaza Mayor Company ltd
Plaza Mayor Company ltd is proud to announce Minjung Lee Quartet's first album after ten years performing on the Parisian scene. It contains Lee's original compositions as well as two Korean traditional songs which were arranged in jazz. Turquoise" was inspired by the traditional rhythms during Lee's trip to Turkey and composed at Festival de Marciac. Other tracks on the album blend Korean traditional music, oriental melodies, and the tropical landscape of the South Pacific. Track Listing Day Dream In ...
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On a Turquoise Cloud: Duke Ellington After the War, 1945-47
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Night Lights Classic Jazz
At the end of World War II Duke Ellington was coming off one of the most commercially and artistically successful periods of his career--the so-called Blanton-Webster years of the early 1940s. He had managed to keep much of his orchestra intact during the war and had maintained a high public profile with concerts and broadcasts during the 1943-44 recording ban that kept him and other artists out of the studios. In late 1944 he'd scored a smash hit with I'm ...
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