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André George Previn (/ ˈ p r ɛ v ɪ n /; born Andreas Ludwig Priwin; April 6, 1929 – February 28, 2019) [1] [2] was a German-American pianist, composer, and conductor. His career had three major genres: Hollywood films, jazz, and classical music.
Shelly Manne & his Friends* (*André Previn and Leroy Vinnegar): modern jazz performances of songs from My Fair Lady, as the full name appeared on the 12-inch LP jacket (Contemporary Records C3527), was begun when drummer Shelly Manne, pianist André Previn, and bassist Leroy Vinnegar assembled on August 17, 1956, in the Contemporary studios in Los Angeles to produce an album of jazz versions ...
In 2018, Mutter premiered Previn's The Fifth Season, [64] Krzysztof Penderecki's Sonata for Violin and Piano No. 2, and his Duo concertante per violino e contrabbasso. [65] In 2018, Mutter gave a concert with pianist Lang Lang titled the Berlin Concert with the Staatskapelle Berlin under Manfred Honeck for the 120 Anniversary of Deutsche ...
Mia Farrow and Stephen Fry have led tributes to Oscar-winning composer Andre Previn after he died aged 89. The German-born conductor - whose career spanned Hollywood, jazz and classical music ...
Double Play! is a 1957 jazz album featuring pianists Russ Freeman and André Previn. [1]It was recorded and released in 1957 on the Contemporary label, and re-released in 1993 in the Original Jazz Classics series.
The album was reviewed by Michael G. Nastos at Allmusic who wrote that "Previn's technical ability and heartfelt stretching of the original blueprints urge these well-worn tunes to carry new meaning and substance. If there are any stock treatments here, it's because the pianist tends to lay back and let the melodies come to him...Perhaps Previn ...
Following the six months he spent writing Perceptions (see below), Johnson entered the studio for a date with André Previn's trio (adding Johnson as the only horn). They recorded an entire album of the music of Kurt Weill, released as Andre Previn and J. J. Johnson Play 'Mack The Knife' and Other Kurt Weill Songs. In 1962, Johnson toured for a ...
You can't tote around a piano and play in Starbucks." He's also invested in the flute's history — like learning about Mayan flutes made from clay, a design he had re-created in cedarwood. “There’s all kinds of fables and, you know, indigenous stories that go along with playing the flute — playing like the birds or playing your heart ...