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Dexter Morrill
MUSIC FOR TRUMPETS
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Painting: "Claudel Couple"
by Edith Smith
Available at your favorite digital etailers
including iTunes, Rhapsody and eMusic
Catalog Number: CPS-8657
Audio Format: Stereo, DDD
Playing Time: 52:02
Release Date: 1998
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Ponzo |
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1. |
Bold
& Very Steady (2:08) |
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2. |
Recitative
(1:54) |
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3. |
Hymn
(2:16) |
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4. |
Furious
(1:50) |
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Mark
Ponzo& Barbara Butler, C trumpets & flugelhorns |
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Nine
Pieces |
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5. |
Majestic
(0:53) |
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6. |
Echoes
(1:08) |
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7. |
Alternating
Thirds (0:43) |
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8. |
Shining
Trumpets (0:55) |
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9. |
Lullaby
(1:35) |
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10. |
Cross
Key Gallop (0:32) |
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11. |
Airborn
Blues (1:04) |
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12. |
Duple-Triple
(0:55) |
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13. |
Funky
(1:44) |
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Mark
Ponzo, C trumpet |
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Tarr |
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14. |
(10:00) |
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Studies for trumpet & computer |
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15. |
Hocket
(1:18) |
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17. |
Blues
(1:38) |
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18. |
Cadenza
(2:35) |
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Mark
Ponzo, trumpet |
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Trumpet
Concerto |
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19. |
Variations
(5:28) |
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20. |
Andante
(4:09) |
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21. |
Rondo
(6:42) |
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Mark
Ponzo, C trumpet |
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William
Koehler, piano |
Reviews
Twentieth
Century Music - July 1999 - by Crystal Elizabeth
"With writing solidly
in the neoclassic and jazz crossover traditions, Dexter Morrill's Music for Trumpets is a series of fine works spanning 30
years and featured on this Capstone release in reverse chronological
order, beginning with the recent Ponzo (1996) for two trumpets,
played vibrantly here by its namesake Mark Ponzo and Barbara Butler.
The following Nine Pieces (1989) are various unaccompanied
solo character pieces and etudes, including a bluesy Miles Davis-like
"Airborne Blues" and a funky, concluding Funky.
Ponzo is the soloist
again in Nine as well as in two works for trumpet(s) and
computer: TARR (1982) and Studies (1974), the former
of which calls for four overdubbed Ponzos. The computer-generated
sounds in both pieces are a bit on the cheesy side, but they make
their impact effectively in close Davidovskian interplay with the
acoustic components. The Trumpet Concerto (1966), in a piano
version with Ponzo and William Koehler, demonstrates that Morrill
has maintained a consistent sonic vision throughout the years."
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