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What are you Listening to?

I just replaced a turntable that has been broken for well over a year.

I gigged this afternoon for a corporate holiday party, got home, and put on "The Baddest Turrentine" by Stanley Turrentine. Turrentine, Getz, Desmond and quite a few other sax players sound better to me on vinyl.

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I never heard of Pablo Sarasate before hearing this. It looks like a) this was originally for violin and 2) based on how many YouTube videos are out there of this, I'm probably late to the party. Well, that just gives me a new composer to listen to today!

It's 10 min 44 sec long. I think it's worth your time if you can spare it!
 
I. Entrée et Rondeau, II. Tambourin, III. Musette, IV. Sérénade, V. Fanfare, VI. Rondeau, VII. Menuets, VIII. Le Coucou originally writen for oboe, clarinet and bassoon arranged for saxophone trio by Kateřina Pavlíková.

 
Listening to the soundtrack (edited) for the show I am in the middle of recording. Trying to get the cuts accurate and easily readable to continue doing songs in 1 take. Hopefully done by Saturday.

Anastasia
 
The past few days I have been reflecting on all of the theater (amateur/pro pit) gigs I played over the years and started thinking about the really-good tunes (usually a musical has one or two) a show is known for. I thought about A Chorus Line and "At the Ballet" was/is my favorite from that show. I have been on Youtube listening to many iterations of the song - great orchestration, harmonically hip, just a nicely-composed song. Give it a listen!
 
I have drawn the short straw this year and I will be on-call at work (computer security guy) for Christmas day. I don't particularly mind. This is the first year that we haven't hung any ornaments of any kind and the only "Christmas tree" is the two-headed 50 foot monster palm that the neighbors have.

I have to queue up A Christmas Festival, by Leroy Anderson. I've played that on Bb clarinet (probably 1st, 2nd, and 3rd), Bb bass clarinet, Bb contrabass clarinet, Eb alto sax, and, IIRC, Bb tenor sax. It's a bit nostalgic.
 
When I had a day job as a systems tech for a cable TV system, I'd always volunteer to be on call Thanksgiving Day.

That way when Christmas came around, they never chose me because I just had my turn. I had that job for 5 years, and the other guys never caught on.

Then they did me a big favor, and laid off up to 15 years, so I went back to music full-time.
 
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