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| Senor Juan Brahms | 
 enlarge | Creators: Mike Scaglione, Oscar Feldman, Richard Drexler, Jeff Berlin, Oscar Stagnaro, Bob Mintzer, Eddie Marshall, Lionel Bart, Johannes Brahms, Thelonious Monk, Tom Springfield, Alex Acuna, Craig Pichanick, John Richardson, Tracy Alexander, Richie Zellon, Marvin Stam
Label: Nicolosi Productions
Category: Music
List Price: $38.99
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Avg. Customer Rating:  (2 reviews)
Sales Rank: 601083
Format: Import
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 5 x 0.5
EAN: 8024582900222
ASIN: B0002F4SJW
Release Date: August 16, 2004
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| Tracks:
| • | Hungarian Dance #1 in G Minor | | • | Piano Quintet in F Minor, Op. 34 - 3rd Movement/Piano Quartet #3 in C M | | • | Piano Quartet #3 in C Minor, Op. 60/3rd Movement | | • | Hungarian Dance #5 in F Sharp Minor | | • | Introduction to Epistrophy | | • | Epistrophy | | • | I'll Never Find Another You | | • | Where Is Love? | | • | Intermezzo in a Minor, Op. 76, No. 7 | | • | String Quintet #2 in G, Op. 111/1st Movement | | • | String Quintet #2 in G, Op. 111/2nd Movement | | • | String Quintet #2 in G, Op. 111/3rd Movement | | • | String Quintet #2 in G, Op. 111/4th Movement | | • | Capriccio in D Minor, Op. 116, No. 1 | | • | Violin Concerto in D, Op. 77/3rd Movement |
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| Customer Reviews:
 An interesting idea - but.... September 12, 2005
OK: you got me. As a jazz afficienado AND a one-time Brahms groupie I was interested to see what could be done with this (and it is quite easy to make Brahms swing, and his lush late-romantic harmonies do start to point towards later jazz developments). However, I have to say that most of this CD just makes Brahms' "heroic pessimism" sound trite and tawdry (quite an amusing thing if that's what you're looking for - but Piazzola, for example, can make tango sound heroically pessimistic without being tawdry). Some of the arrangements remind me of nothing less than those fairground-organ versions of 'the classics'. The well-known-to-the-point-of-kitschiness items work best here, perhaps because the ear is already all-too-used to horrible versions of overworked gems (the Hungarian Dances, for example). The only item I would say is quite beautiful and really convincing is the solo piano jazz-rendering of the Intermezzo in a, Op. 76, No. 7, but unfortunately here the recorded piano is somewhat thin and tinny.
 An under-your-nose masterpiece!!! December 24, 2004
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Taking the music of Brahms and blending it with jazz improvisation and latin dance rhythms to create a seamless work is an amazing accomplishment and a delight to anyone with the ears to hear the magic therein. Richard Drexler is a monster musician on both keyboards and bass and the vocal tracks contained within the disc are equally masterful. If you like Frank Zappa's "serious" jazz-fusion renderings or the exotic creations of Hermeto Pascoal you need to hear this music. Every track is a trip into a jazz-fueled dreamscape.Trying to write this review is like trying to send you a postcard from this musical place. Better to go there yourself and get a first hand dose of this under-your-nose masterpiece.
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