[Dixielandjazz] Jazz and classical

[Jerry Brown]

Your connection between Dule Ellington and Andrew Lloyd Webber is interesting to say the least!

I can't work out if by making the suggestion you are attempting to insult the Duke by connecting him to a third rate popular composer of one or two tunes (Let's face it once you've heard one ALW tune you have heard them all!) or are suggesting that the Duke only wrote one or two tunes.

Alternatively are you suggesting that ALW steals many of his compositions which is an allegation often laid at Ellington's door?

Allowing ALW into this esteemed company of composers is like coupling George and Ira Gershwin with Don Covay and John Berry. (This pair composed the masterpiece 'Gilee' which reached No.82 in the US charts in 1959)

Cheers,

Jerry,
Norwich,
U.K.


--- On Sat, 17/1/09, Anton Crouch <anton.crouch at optusnet.com.au> wrote:

> From: Anton Crouch <anton.crouch at optusnet.com.au>
> Subject: [Dixielandjazz] Jazz and classical
> To: "Jerry Brown" <jazzjerry at btinternet.com>
> Cc: "Dixieland Jazz" <dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com>
> Date: Saturday, 17 January, 2009, 7:32 AM
> Hello Nancy
> 
> The Jelly Roll Morton - Beethoven connection is fairly
> straight-forward
> - both were composers of extreme greatness and both wrote
> piano music
> which is inherently orchestral in feeling.
> 
> I offered the Armstrong - Paganini connection as a bit of
> devilishness.
> After the 1920s Armstrong was a magnificent player but was
> he a great
> jazzman? If that doesn't provoke, I don't know what
> will  :-)
> 
> As to Mozart, the Benny Goodman connection comes to mind
> immediately.
> Even today, Goodman's recording of the Clarinet Quintet
> is a
> "contender". In terms of feeling, however,
> I'd offer Omer Simeon.
> 
> And others?
> 
> Red Nichols - Brahms
> Duke Ellington - Andrew Lloyd Webber
> Stan Kenton - Bruckner
> 
> Go for it!
> Anton
> 
> Nancy Giffin wrote:
> > Please elaborate on these two nominations you have
> made.
> > (Did you leave Mozart for someone else to make a
> nomination?)
> 
> 
> 
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