Jazz

Contemporary

Selected recordings from digitized piano rolls and virtual pipe organ renditions by VViljanen, and contemporary music composed or/and presented by my good friends, composers, singers and instrumentalists from all over the world.

Moods III

Jazz / Blues / Fusion - Originals

September 2018 Discoveries.

Many people simply want to hear and enjoy some great new music without having to waste time searching for hours. These Musical Discoveries collections aim to fulfill those needs. At least, we hope so! :)

This playlist is a compilation of the favourite musical discoveries of the Wud Records team from everything they heard at SoundCloud during September 2018.

Tracks have been arranged according to the number of plays at the time of publishing, starting with the fewest. Tracks that are early in playlists tend to receive more plays than later tracks, and we feel that the ones with fewer plays need the best chance of exposure.

This playlist is extremely eclectic, so if the track you are playing isn't quite doing it for you, try the next one. It will probably be completely different.

If you enjoyed listening to something here, please give it a like and a repost. Follow the artist. Give them a shoutout on social media. Check out some of their other tracks. Buy something from them and your support will help them to keep going. Doing any of this will help raise their profile. At the very least you might make their day. :)

If you happen to be on this playlist, please share, give us a shoutout on your social media feeds because if we spot it it gives us another opportunity to repost you and big you up. Please listen to as many tracks by the other great bands as you can, and... enjoy!

See also:
* news about this playlist: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/news/wud-records-september-2018-musical-discoveries
* this playlist at Wud Records: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/september-2018-musical-discoveries
* all Musical Discoveries compilations: http://www.wudrecords.co.uk/miscellaneous/musical-discoveries/

September 2018 Discoveries

September Dreams

This new version of the jazz standard by Herbie Hancock is a collaboration with the highly talented keyboard player Mark Dorricott on Hammond organ.
Herbie himself did many versions of this track; the first was in 1962. This incarnation more closely matches the one Herbie did with the Head Hunters, his jazz funk band in 1973.
It's a blast and we enjoyed doing it, we hope you do too!
Benny and Mark
:-)

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Watermelon Man ---- Herbie Hancock ---- Feat. Mark Dorricott (downloadable)

Bolcom, Recuerdos - Paseo

Performed at Peabody Conservatory, May 2015

Rorem: Toccata

Staccato Improvisation

j.S.Bach-Busoni; Chaconne* BWV1004 played by Ferruccio Busoni and published Nov. 1925 (posthum.) on Duo-Art 6928. 
c Recorded  (by permission)from the digitially simulated original reproducing piano roll  in 2016 and the rec updated  13 Feb 2024 by VViljanen  using on its playback and rec. a modelled Bechstein 1896 Grand, reconfigured, revoiced and yhe rec.setup made by VV.
COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED.
Photo: Ferruccio Busoni (1866-1924)
The basic info* of the original piano roll:
CHACONNE (Andante maestoso) from Sonata (Suite) in D-minor for solo Violin (transcribed by Busoni)
Roll Number: 6928, 6928-5
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Busoni
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: November, 1925
Category: classical
Original Price: $3.25
*source: The PlayerPiano Group web page (by permission)

Bach-Busoni: Chaconne BWV1004. Transcription for piano

Bach-Busoni: Chaconne BWV 1004. Ferruccio Busoni  1925 (pub.posthum) on Duo-Art 6928

Artur Schnabel (1882-1951) plays in 1924 J.S. Bach: Italian Concerto I - Allegro, Ampico Piano Roll 62721.  Recorded in 2016, and the rec updated  June 3, 2020 by VViljanen (by permission)from a reconstructed and digitally simulated copy of the original reproducing piano roll with virtual Grand Bluethner Model One, tone/sound modified/re-designed by VV.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Basic info of the original piano roll in 1924:
ITALIAN CONCERTO Movement. 1 allegro
 
Roll Number: 62721, 62721H
Composer/Creator: Bach
Pianist: Schnabel
Roll System: Ampico
Country: US
Date: January, 1924
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.00

J.S. Bach: Italian Concerto - I. Allegro. Artur Schnabel 1924 on Ampico 62721

Kenny Barron and Regina Carter's performance of "Don't Explain," (written by Billie Holiday and Arthur Herzog Jr.)on the Jimmy Lyons Stage in the Arena at the 52nd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival on September 18, 2009. 

This performance was part of the Monterey Jazz Festival All-Stars' set, which featured Kenny Barron, Regina Carter, Russell Malone, Kiyoshi Kitagawa, and Johnathan Blake.

Kenny Barron & Regina Carter, "Don't Explain" at MJF52 (2009)

Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue Op 35 no 1 Em, Adela Verne in 1925 on Duo-Art 0217.
Recorded in 2016 by VViljanen (by permission)from a digitized copy of the original reproducing piano roll.
ANY KIND OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo: Adela Verne (1877-1952)was a notable English pianist and minor composer of German descent, born in Southampton. She was considered one of the greatest woman pianists of her era, ranked alongside the male keyboard giants of the time. She toured with great success in many parts of the world. She composed a variety of works, including a Military March dedicated to Queen Elizabeth, later the Queen Mother; her sister Mathilde's pupil. Adela (or Adèle) Verne was born into a musical family named Wurm. Three of her sisters (of her nine older siblings) were also notable pianists or composers: Mathilde and Alice both also adopted the surname Verne, but Mary returned to Germany, retained the family name Wurm, and enjoyed great success as a pianist and composer.
Clara Schumann heard Adela play when she was but a small girl. She was so impressed that she wanted to take her to Frankfurt for study, as she had done with Mathilde, however her parents would not permit this. Instead, she was instructed by Mathilde and Alice, and later by Clara Schumann's daughter Marie Schumann. At age 13 she made her debut in Tchaikovsky's Concerto No.1 in B-flat minor, conducted by Sir August Manns at the Crystal Palace. Tchaikovsky himself heard of this astonishing young prodigy and wanted to meet her. The following year she was introduced to Ignacy Jan Paderewski. He was so impressed with her playing that he predicted a great future for her. At his home in Morges in Switzerland, she studied Chopin with Paderewski, as well as most of his own works, including the Sonata in E-flat minor, the Polish Fantasy and the Concerto in A minor, the work with which she made her orchestral debut in New York City. (source: Wikipedia)
Basic info* of the original piano roll:
PRELUDE AND FUGUE, Op. 35, No. 1 in E-minor
Roll Number: 0217, 0217
Composer/Creator: Mendelssohn
Pianist: Verne
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: UK
Date: March, 1925
Category: classical
Original Price: n/a
*info source: from The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Mendelssohn: Prelude and Fugue Op 35 no 1 em, Adela Verne 1925, on Duo-Art 0217

Score available at https://www.scoreexchange.com/scores/for-piano-636796.html

For Piano

not sure were this one came from, Just going with the flow and seeing were it takes you

When A Heart Breaks

Schumann: Intermezzo Op.26 No.4, From Faschingschwank aus Wien (Viennese Carnival Pranks). Irene Scharrer in 1926 on Duo-Art 70499. - Recorded 11 Apr 2017, and the rec updated 18 Feb 2018, by VViljanen (by permission)from a digitally simulated original reproducing piano roll.
ALL KINDS OF COMMERCIAL USE PROHIBITED. 
Photo: Irene Scharrer
The Basic info* of the original piano roll:
INTERMEZZO, Op. 26, No. 4 from "Viennese Carnival Pranks"
Roll Number: 7049, 70499
Composer/Creator: Schumann
Pianist: Scharrer
Roll System: Duo-Art
Country: US
Date: August, 1926
Category: classical
Original Price: $2.25
*source: The Piano Player Group web page (by permission)

Schumann: Intermezzo Op. 26 No. 4 'Viennese Carnival Pranks'. Irene Scharrer 1926 on Duo-Art 70499

song-electronic based, just an idea about that special someone who could walk into your life

Igniter

Some other daybreak, a song that turned out, to be about the feelings of being in place that was missing something... or :) something from another time,  a feeling for the future,  or maybe it makes no sense at all ...it´s just the way my songs happen.

Some Other Daybreak

Rising wall

I present my interpretation of a very beautiful song written in 1941 by George Fragos, Jack Baker and Dick Gasparre. It was a hit for many artists over the years including Dinah Shore and Frank Sinatra. It was also used in the Fritz Lang directed 1952 movie "Clash By Night" from which the photo is taken.

Enjoy XXX

I Hear A Rhapsody

Lotta Miss Takes (Original)

Music and lyrics by Irina
Vocals - Irina and Luis - https://soundcloud.com/luissantos-1-1

UKSC 2017 Winner
BBC Introducing Mixtape by Tom Robinson 5.02.2018

I am so grateful to Luis for adding new colours  to this song with his enchanting voice and impeccable phrasing. He opened a new dimension to say the least.

Raindrops on my window
Echo in my heart
Never-ending winds blow
Tearing us apart.

You protect your distance
I enjoy my space
Bored of coexistence
Scared of losing face.

We both know it's time to stop pretending
Time to let it go
We embraced the imminence of ending
Long ago.

Yet you're still all tenderness and kindness
All I'm thinking of
Is you. Is this our comfortable blindness
Or love, we're still in love?

Rain is slowly painting
Gloomy skies in grey
We are tired of waiting
Who braves out to say.

You're so self-reliant
I'm so self-contained
Helplessly defiant
Painfully constrained.

Yet you're still all tenderness and kindness
All I'm thinking of
Is you. Is this our comfortable blindness
Or love? We're still in love...

Uncertain Love

My personal take on the guitar in jazz.  It's a brutal instrument with razor wire strings, never in tune the way a piano is, you can play the same note in 5 different places, it's solo voice is too small (hence all the stomp boxes, effects, etc.) as is its voice as an accompanist, which can never match that of a piano.  If you play long enough you'll run into hand problems, hopefully not the way I did.  This is from when I could play the guitar.

Two Boss Men

Marco Turrini Impro .. Copyright
"HAPPY NEW YEAR!"

CHEERS TO THE OLD..BRING ON THE NEW (IMPRO)

This track was created and completed late 2016 with the intention of adding vocals at a later date......still waiting.

2018 Destiny Mix

Here is another piece for chilling, easylistening, enjoy!

Seventh's Floor (michael spielmann)

Pyramid

Guitar based instrumental music of the highest calibre from German guitarist Thomas Blug, taken from his solo album "The Beauty of Simplicity".

The Beauty of Simplicity

Out of the Blue

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Thomas Blug - Out of the Blue

Newborn

Black Sunrise

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Mike Verba (Michal Wierba) - Tapestry

A Mass in D composed in 2010. Intro+ liturgy parts for the texts from the Evangelic-Lutheran  mass handbook in Finland. Inspired by Rev. 7:17. Mass undertitle: "The Springs of Living Water"
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The Littoinen Pipe Organ Virtual Studio Most Humbly Presents

E-P.Kanniainen Missa in D op.7 arr.by VV&E-PK

Here lies the Story Of the Red Queen Quite ,the tale. In the days of yore... She orders her soldiers to invade the kingdoms that surround her . You can hear them marching ...... The Red Queen is like no other! Heartless ,Ruthless ... the villiage scrambles they run for theyre lives , For they Know what is waiting them. Take no prisioners!! She orders .. Take their belongings !!  Leave no stone unturned.. And they story Unfolds. by G Wood. I was once asked if I was The Red Queen.........

The Red Queen

What about / 2018
Vocal: Sanna Hartfield
https://freevocals.com
Backing vocal: Nathan
Trumpet: Don Clark
Guitar: Carlos E. Arellano
Music: Paploviante and Lillithe
Cover Art and Bass: Paploviante
https://soundcloud.com/paul-racle

What About - Lillithe and Paploviante

source of the picture is http://s1.1zoom.net/big0/451/358648-admin.jpg

Joerg (https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx) was so excited by this piece, that he made a remix with flute. I have to thank him for this enrichment. It is a honour for me, that he choose my music.
You can listen to this wonderful version here: https://soundcloud.com/joerxworx/221nils-holgerssons-flight-by-msmus-joerx-flute-remix

Nils Holgerssons Flight (comp. & perf. michael spielmann)

Ètude Nr.10 for Piano Solo

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