Trackimage | Playbut | Trackname | Playbut | Trackname |
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12237143 | Play | s Wonderful | 04:16 Tools | |
12237150 | Play | Rosetta | 02:54 Tools | |
12237144 | Play | It's Been So Long | 03:47 Tools | |
12237180 | Play | I Can't Get Started | 07:19 Tools | |
12237146 | Play | Stompin' At The Savoy | 03:43 Tools | |
12237151 | Play | You'Re Lucky To Me | 03:44 Tools | |
12237145 | Play | Anything Goes | 02:39 Tools | |
12237165 | Play | 's Wonderful | 07:36 Tools | |
12237148 | Play | Three Little Words | 03:13 Tools | |
12237202 | Play | Beale Street Blues | 03:36 Tools | |
12237156 | Play | When A Woman Loves A Man | 02:45 Tools | |
12237147 | Play | Jubilee | 02:53 Tools | |
12237149 | Play | Button Up Your Overcoat | 03:17 Tools | |
53327851 | Play | Hommage à Debussy | 06:08 Tools | |
12237157 | Play | Makin' Whoopie | 04:53 Tools | |
12237153 | Play | If Dreams Come True | 03:44 Tools | |
53327855 | Play | Poor Miss Black | 02:30 Tools | |
12237181 | Play | Ezz-May | 04:33 Tools | |
12237173 | Play | Lover Man | 04:29 Tools | |
12237189 | Play | California Here I Come | 03:12 Tools | |
12237154 | Play | Ain't She Sweet | 04:10 Tools | |
12237194 | Play | Don't Blame Me | 02:51 Tools | |
12237152 | Play | The Best Things In Life Are Free | 02:42 Tools | |
12237160 | Play | Take Me In Your Arms | 04:07 Tools | |
12237155 | Play | Homage to Debussy | 03:06 Tools | |
12237161 | Play | Homage to Fats | 02:37 Tools | |
12237159 | Play | Second Electronic Setting | 04:45 Tools | |
12237158 | Play | Pennies From Heaven | 03:58 Tools | |
12237209 | Play | I Must Have That Man | 07:11 Tools | |
53327866 | Play | Setting for Two Pianos | 03:32 Tools | |
12237178 | Play | Improvisation | 06:08 Tools | |
12237192 | Play | Two Prayer Settings | 05:16 Tools | |
12237176 | Play | Liza | 03:43 Tools | |
12237172 | Play | Stomping At The Savoy | 08:38 Tools | |
53327852 | Play | Quin and Sonic | 08:38 Tools | |
53327854 | Play | Events for Tape Recorder | 03:42 Tools | |
12237190 | Play | Bunny Hug | 03:59 Tools | |
12237164 | Play | You're My Thrill | 05:16 Tools | |
12237169 | Play | Oh, Lady Be Good | 08:53 Tools | |
53327853 | Play | You Go to My Head | 03:42 Tools | |
12237193 | Play | There's A Small Hotel | 02:54 Tools | |
12237168 | Play | For Miss Blanc | 02:15 Tools | |
12237177 | Play | Avalon | 03:42 Tools | |
12237170 | Play | Thigamagig | 02:30 Tools | |
12237166 | Play | Easy Swing | 04:44 Tools | |
12237175 | Play | Way Down Yonder In New Orleans | 02:09 Tools | |
12237163 | Play | Hallelujah | 02:07 Tools | |
12237167 | Play | Gone With The Wind | 02:56 Tools | |
12237219 | Play | The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise | 02:34 Tools | |
12237204 | Play | Bouquet | 04:46 Tools | |
12237174 | Play | That Old Black Magic | 02:30 Tools | |
12237179 | Play | Out Of Nowhere | 08:30 Tools | |
12237198 | Play | Firebug | 01:49 Tools | |
12237182 | Play | Cross Your Heart | 02:22 Tools | |
12237185 | Play | When Did You Leave Heaven | 03:41 Tools | |
12237199 | Play | Borderline | 03:33 Tools | |
12237196 | Play | Everything I'Ve Got | 03:09 Tools | |
12237243 | Play | What Is This Thing Called Love | 08:50 Tools | |
12237225 | Play | Cuban Pete | 02:07 Tools | |
12237201 | Play | Cookin' One Up | 02:03 Tools | |
12237183 | Play | Hommage A Fats Waller | 02:34 Tools | |
12237215 | Play | Introduction | 00:47 Tools | |
12237184 | Play | Die Violine | 02:48 Tools | |
12237191 | Play | What's New | 08:50 Tools | |
12237234 | Play | You Better Not Mess With Me | 02:49 Tools | |
12237241 | Play | Muskrat Ramble | 03:07 Tools | |
12237205 | Play | Cooch | 03:01 Tools | |
12237162 | Play | Don`t Blame Me | 02:50 Tools | |
53327856 | Play | Liza (All the Clouds'll Roll Away) | 12:52 Tools | |
53327858 | Play | Recitative and Toccata Percossa | 12:52 Tools | |
12237236 | Play | String Quartet | 12:52 Tools | |
53327864 | Play | Clarinade | 03:32 Tools | |
53327857 | Play | Makin' Whoopee | 12:52 Tools | |
12237212 | Play | Setting | 06:21 Tools | |
12237187 | Play | Events | 06:51 Tools | |
53327859 | Play | Jazzspeak (spoken commentary) | 12:52 Tools | |
12237224 | Play | After You've Gone | 13:34 Tools | |
53327860 | Play | For Miss Black | 06:51 Tools | |
53327862 | Play | Etude | 00:30 Tools | |
12237197 | Play | Strand Settings: "Darker" | 00:30 Tools | |
53327861 | Play | Computer Prelude | 06:21 Tools | |
12237221 | Play | Madrigal for Flute Alone | 00:30 Tools | |
12237237 | Play | Nocturne for Violin Solo | 00:30 Tools | |
87369746 | Play | When your lover has gone | 19:52 Tools | |
12237228 | Play | California, Here I Come | 03:08 Tools | |
12237188 | Play | Don-Que-Dee | 03:32 Tools | |
53327865 | Play | Woodwind Quintet | 03:32 Tools | |
12237214 | Play | Jazzspeak | 19:52 Tools | |
53327863 | Play | I Found a New Baby | 19:52 Tools | |
87369751 | Play | The best thing for you would be me | 00:00 Tools | |
53327867 | Play | Lighthouse Blues | 02:51 Tools | |
87369748 | Play | Little Companion Pieces: I. Night Song Invocations | 02:51 Tools | |
87369749 | Play | Little Companion Pieces: III. A Tamil Love Poem | 02:51 Tools | |
87369747 | Play | Little Companion Pieces: V. A Seri Whale Song | 19:52 Tools | |
12237235 | Play | For 'miss Black' | 02:19 Tools | |
12237213 | Play | My Last Millionaire | 03:28 Tools | |
87369750 | Play | Haiku Settings | 02:51 Tools | |
12237195 | Play | When A Man Loves A Woman | 02:51 Tools | |
12237200 | Play | Blue Skies | 00:00 Tools | |
89346602 | Play | Recit and Toccata Percossa | 00:00 Tools | |
12237232 | Play | Mission To Moscow | 02:56 Tools | |
53327868 | Play | No. 3. In all this cool | 02:56 Tools | |
53327869 | Play | I've Found A New Baby (feat. Buck Clayton) | 02:56 Tools | |
53327870 | Play | Hommage à Fats Waller | 02:56 Tools |
Born 12 February 1923 in New York, Mel Powell began his musical life as a prodigious jazz artist, working as pianist and arranger with the Benny Goodman Orchestra and later, the Glenn Miller Army Air Force Band. Soon, however, a strong compositional instinct prompted his matriculation at Yale University, where he studied with Paul Hindemith. Under Hindemith, and throughout the late 1940s and 1950s, Powell composed primarily in a neoclassic style producing such works as the Cantilena Concertante for English horn and orchestra, Divertimento for violin and harp, and Trio for piano, violin and cello. In 1959, Powell's musical personality blossomed and the influence of Webern was manifested in a brevity of forms and transparency of textures. An innovative and consistently adventurous musical style embraced experimentation with extended string techniques and invented notations (as in the Filigree Setting for string quartet), musical blocks of chords, pitch sequences, rhythms, and colors (represented in Modules: An Intermezzo for chamber orchestra), and tape and electronics (such as in the song cycle Strand Settings: Darker). Duplicates: A Concerto for Two Pianos and Orchestra was awarded the Pulitzer Prize in 1990 and illustrates Powell's meticulous craftsmanship and singular skill at assembling richly expressive yet intricately complex musical structures. Powell was one of the instrumental founders of the California Institute of the Arts. He served as dean of the music school from 1969 to 1978, and, at the time of his death on 24 April 1998, he held the Roy E. Disney endowed chair in music composition. Powell received awards and commissions from Sigma Alpha Iota, the Guggenheim Foundation, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and the NEA. Among his final works were: the Piano Trio '94; the Sonatina (for solo flute) and the Sextet, premiered in 1996 by the California EAR Unit; the song cycle, Levertov Breviary, premiered in 1997 by soprano Judith Bettina and pianist James Goldsworthy for Harvard University's Fromm Foundation; and Seven Miniatures -- Women Poets of China, a work for harp and voice premiered at New York's Merkin Concert Hall in October 1998 by Susan Allen and Anne-Lise Berntsen. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.