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- Jimmy Giuffre; Infused Jazz With Blues Classical Notes
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NME.com – Apr 26, 2008
His eventual foray into the world of electronic music was due in part to the musical landscape that characterized the early 90’s. Specifically the musical influences of Aphex Twin and UK based DJs such as 4hero fabio grooveriderGoldie and Photek. In 1998 John released his first E. “Hellfire” which he released on his very own Nervegasm and SVWSP (Scratch Vinyls with Sand Papers) label which was soon followed a few months later with “Yerba del Diablo.
Jimmy Giuffre; Infused Jazz With Blues Classical Notes
Washington Post – Apr 26, 2008
When his performing career began to fade Mr. Giuffre turned to composing for theater ballet and commercials and also taught at New York University the New School and the New England Conservatory of Music. After experimenting with electronic music in the 1980s Mr. Giuffre returned to his earlier style and toured internationally until 1996. He retired from teaching that year when his Parkinson’s symptoms began to worsen. Since 1976 he had lived in an 18th-century mill in West Stockbridge Mass. with his wife of 42 years Juanita O.
Pianist leaves audience longing for more
Akron Beacon Journal – Apr 26, 2008
In 2007 the composer finished the version played this week which featured as soloists Aimard and Tamara Stefanovich. Eotvos 54 was born in Transylvania. He has worked with Karlheinz Stockhausen’s cauldron of electronic music the Stockhausen Ensemble in Cologne Germany. Eotvos also served as a music director of a leading Parisian source of new music IRCAM and the Ensemble InterContemporain founded by Pierre Boulez. All this said it’s not surprising that the pianos in Eotvos’ Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra created the effect of a manic burbling computer. The piano soloists have worked as musical partners for five years and it showed. They were perfectly relentlessly together throughout the torrents of notes rippling up and down the keyboards.