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Piano Solos is the debut album by American pianist George Winston. [2] [3] It features his first compositions and covers. American guitarist John Fahey co-produced the album with Doug Decker, who engineered it. [4] First released in 1973 on Takoma Records, it was reissued in 1981 by Windham Hill Records as Ballads and Blues 1972.
The song starts with a quiet bass guitar and a clacking percussion beat, then transitions to the main instrumentation with a vocal sample from "How Blue Can You Get", a 1964 song by American singer-songwriter B.B. King. [3] The sound of church bells can be heard intermittently throughout the song, and a piano solo constitutes the track's bridge.
The original version, an instrumental by Silver's quintet, was recorded on November 10, 1956. It has become a jazz standard. [1] Silver later wrote lyrics, which were first recorded by Silver's band with Bill Henderson singing in 1958. Mark Murphy recorded another vocal version on his 1962 Riverside album That's How I Love the Blues! [2]
There are almost 80 minutes of music in ET, excluding alternates and album arrangements. The full hand-written score has in excess of 500 pages. The music was first written by Williams in 8-12-line sketch format; these were then expanded to full score by orchestrator Herbert W. Spencer from December 1981 to January 1982.
Song structure is the arrangement of a song, [1] and is a part of the songwriting process. It is typically sectional, which uses repeating forms in songs.Common piece-level musical forms for vocal music include bar form, 32-bar form, verse–chorus form, ternary form, strophic form, and the 12-bar blues.
Blues is a music genre [3] and musical form that originated amongst African-Americans in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. [2] Blues has incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the African-American culture.
According to the 54th Grammy Awards guideline the category was "for albums containing at least 51% playing time of new vocal or instrumental blues recordings". [3] This award combined the previous categories for Best Contemporary Blues Album and Best Traditional Blues Album, which both existed between 1983 and 2011. The Recording Academy ...
East-West is the second album by the American blues rock band the Butterfield Blues Band, released in 1966 on the Elektra label. [a] It peaked at No. 65 on the Billboard pop albums chart, and is regarded as highly influential by rock and blues music historians.