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...Throughout these years, besides writing music that he describes as a "beautiful amalgam of Stravinsky and Schoenberg," Schuller followed closely the fascinating developments in jazz. "In those days, you could hear a tremendous amount of jazz on the radio. This was the heyday of the swing era; jazz was the total popular music of the United States...When I first heard [Duke Ellington], I knew right away, and declared that he was just as great as Beethoven. I still stand by that. If you analyze that music, in terms of the quality and the inspiration of the music, you come...
...This Is What I Do (Fantasy Jazz...
...beginning of his 70th year, jazz saxophone colossus Sonny Rollins has released the modestly titled This is What I Do. As its name suggests, this album documents the present state of Rollins' traveling band...
...Rollins in concert is kung fu, then This is What I Do is tai chi; reserved, but masterful nonetheless. Rollins is one of jazz's last living legends; this album reveals an artist comfortable with that mystique. B -Malik...
...Through his interest in jazz, Schuller met the pianist John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, and then proceeded to meet all of the jazz greats of the day, like Charlie Parker, Miles Davis and Charles Mingus. He also played french horn on the great Miles Davis/Gil Evans albums, Birth of the Cool (1950) and Porgy and Bess...