John Clerk of Penicuik: Cantatas

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This is the first recording of any of Clerk’s cantatas which are among the finest contributions to baroque music from these islands from a man of great cultural significance and with a crucial place in the history of Scottish culture. Clerk studied in Rome under Corelli and Pasquini and was also a lawyer, judge, amateur architect, artist, poet and landscape gardener… (more)

Mats Eilertsen: Rubicon (2016)

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Mats Eilertsen: double bass
Eirik Hegdal: soprano and baritone saxophones, clarinet, bass clarinet
Thomas T Dahl: guitar
Rob Waring: marimba, vibraphone
Harmen Fraanje: piano, fender rhodes
Olavi Louhivuori: drums
Trygve Seim: tenor and soprano saxophones

1. Canto (Mats Eilertsen) (05:33)
2. Cross the Creek (Harmen Fraanje) (02:18)
3. March (Mats Eilertsen) (8:03)
4. Balky (Mats Eilertsen) (06:44)
5. Lago (Mats Eilertsen) (06:57)
6. Blublue (Mats Eilertsen) (07:24)
7. Wood and Water (Mats Eilertsen, Eirik Hegdal, Rob Waring) (02:03)
8. September (Mats Eilertsen) (07:58)
9. Reminiscent (Mats Eilertsen) (04:35)
10. Introitus (Mats Eilertsen) (02:21)

 

John Coltrane: Alabama [Live]

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John Coltrane: saxophone
McCoy Tyner: piano
Jimmy Garrison: bass
Elvin Jones: drums

Alabama is a John Coltrane composition that appears on his album Live at Birdland (1963). It was written in response to the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing on September 15, 1963, an attack carried out by the Ku Klux Klan in Birmingham, Alabama that killed four little girls…