PBS jazz/microtones

Of course, microtonal playing is part of the basic language of
jazz/blues...it's inseparable. As I was watching tonight (pt. 5), which
featured Benny Goodman, I couldn't help but note that Goodman was also
quite involved with other types of music as well, having had a piece
commissioned for Bartok to compose (Contrasts) for clarinet, violin, and
piano. I believe this piece had a section for violin tuned 1/4 tone
higher...am I right, or was it another composition? It's a cool
piece...and it's always been interesting, to me, how Goodman kept his
swing side and his "modern" side totally separate...I don't hear any
attempt at trying to combine Bartok with his dance thing...would surely
have been interesting if he had, somehow, and it probably would have
cost him his audience...Hstick

Just a quick thought here.... I think we're really lucky as
"microtonalist" that one of the most critically acclaimed (and
rightfully so I think) modern jazz practitioners is Joe Maneri -- a
diehard "microtonalist" with a bent for sermonizing the cause.

Joe is both an original and a real traditionalist in the sense that
his music is absolutely flowing in the great continuum.

It's a beautiful thing.

--Dan Stearns

"D.Stearns" wrote:
>
> Just a quick thought here.... I think we're really lucky as
> "microtonalist" that one of the most critically acclaimed (and
> rightfully so I think) modern jazz practitioners is Joe Maneri -- a
> diehard "microtonalist" with a bent for sermonizing the cause.
>
> Joe is both an original and a real traditionalist in the sense that
> his music is absolutely flowing in the great continuum.
>
> It's a beautiful thing.

And Matt Maneri seems to be recording a lot too.

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* D a v i d B e a r d s l e y
* 49/32 R a d i o "all microtonal, all the time"
* http://www.virtulink.com/immp/lookhere.htm