Christopher Guild- Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 7 – Folksong with Grainger (CD) Animalize Shoalin' (Funky N' Half-Hip)

Shoalin' (Funky N' Half-Hip)

there is no way to peel yourself away from the sonic

Epistle to Derroll

The album shows how Mozart's compositional style developed

highlights Gillespie's band in peak form at Club Bel-Aire in Chester

Christopher Guild- Stevenson: Piano Music, Vol. 7 – Folksong with Grainger (CD) Animalize Shoalin' (Funky N' Half-Hip)Percy Grainger (1882 1961) and Ronald Stevenson (1928 2015), both composer pianists of the Golden Age of keyboard virtuosity, shared a passion for folksong, especially the modal Celtic melodies from the fringes of the British Isles. Though the two never met, they corresponded for many years, with Stevenson arranging many of Grainger's transcriptions in a deliberate act of homage to the older man, whose quirky originality brought Stevenson illumination