- Richard Peaslee
Stonehenge (A Jazz Symphony) (1963)
- Margun Music (World)
- asx(cl).asx(fl,afl).tsx(cl).tsx(cl,bcl).barsx/4tpt.4tbn.btbn/gtr/dm/db [opt: 4 vc, 2 perc]
- asx(cl), asx(fl,afl), tsx(cl), tsx(cl,bcl), barsx, 4 tpt, 4 tbn, btbn, gtr, dm, db
- 17 min
Programme Note
Stonehenge is a four-movement work for jazz orchestra composed originally for Bill Russo's legendary London Jazz Orchestra. It is a virtuoso piece but not at all beyond the capabilities of a better college level "big band." It was recorded in London and has been performed by such distinguished ensembles as Stan Kenton's Los Angeles Neophonic Orchestra.
— Richard Peaslee
— Richard Peaslee
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Reviews
Peaslee has created a work whose descriptive passages rank among the best.
...exploits and manipulates jazz rhythms and solos to create an original intense world of its own. The whole piece...conjures up, as do the stones that inspired it, some immense primitive ritual at the dawn of time.
Appropriately, Richard Peaslee's Stonehenge seemed to be hewn of granite.