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fabulous! great breakfast music.... with LOTSA coffee!
Buy this cd. You won't be disappointed. One of our favorites right now.... RaymondScott is the bomb!
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May 4, 2009
| Helpful Votes: 1 | Rating: 5
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dedicatory piece to ectoplasm
Here's another in Basta's series of releases of Raymond Scott's music, mostly from the Scott Collection in the Marr Sound Archives. Ectoplasm focuses on Scott's quintet music of 1948-1949. Some of this music was released by Scott himself on a deluxe series of 78 rpm records. The rest is music fashioned for various radio programs.The highlights here are the eight lesser known Scott compositions that haven't been available since the 1950s, if at all. The music is still recognizable as Scott's, though often a bit darker perhaps, and a little more complex at times. The musicians are little known but play with the same well-rehearsed (or maybe over-rehearsed) precision of the earlier more famous Scott Quintette.The standards are a mixed bag. Mostly very short to enable them to be squeezed between other features during a 15 minute radio show, they sound like attempts to graft Scott's signature sound onto recognizable tunes. Unfortunately, this tends to undermine any...
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April 2, 2008
(New Hampshire) | Helpful Votes: 5 | Rating: 4
Very Interesting... 3 1/2 stars
I really enjoy Raymond Scott's work but don't place it at the top of my play list.The music is a very tight, fast and furious jazz that often has interesting twists and occasional forays into contemporary classical.There are, however, a few problems.First, jazz is supposed to swing. This is often too tight and loses some of the swing and looseness of the best of jazz. Another problem is that most of the music feels like it came from the 20's, maybe the 30's. Not just music from this era, but pop music from this era. Maybe a lot of the music was written then , but it was recorded in the late '40s or early 50's - to me this sounds a bit quaint when up against the bop being played at the time or even what Ellington was doing in the 40's and 50s (or, for that matter, what Ellington was doing in the 20's & 30's). I can listen to Bird or Monk or Dizzy all day, even though Jazz isn't my music, but this can get annoying after a while. And somehow this...
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December 27, 2011
| Helpful Votes: 0 | Rating: 3