In Reply to: I don't think Ray Brown ever made a bad record * posted by Mike K on May 19, 2015 at 07:42:12:
Among many other things, like many jazz greats he was thoroughly familiar with classical music. In Old Friends, a recording of a live concert he did with Andre Previn and Mundell Lowe during the 1991 La Jolla SummerFest (classical) music festival in southern California, he has an extended solo in which he gracefully transitions into the opening theme of Mozart's Overture to the Marriage of Figaro, fully up to tempo and all pizzicato.
Wow. A nice nod to Previn's classical side.
Above all, he perfectly supported and enhanced any group he was in.
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Follow Ups
- A superb musician, plain and simple - rbolaw 09:02:28 05/19/15 (2)
- Indeed he was a superb musician - Mike K 18:23:27 05/19/15 (1)
- And Ray was a bon viveur... - andy evans 10:47:33 05/20/15 (0)