Classical music quotes/references in jazz

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Inspired partly by this arrangement, which quotes from a Rachmaninoff prelude:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IkQ4CgxUXBs

And this, which takes its intro from Bach's Musical Offering:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crCxefHCLJA

list em

man alive, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 04:22 (eleven years ago)

Charlie Parker quotes the bassoon melody from the opening of Rite of Spring at 2:52, followed immediately by the Habanera melody from Carmen:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYg0wQ5Th4w

leon d'amaleon, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 08:03 (eleven years ago)

Orchestr Gustav Brom – Missa Jazz (Jazz In The Church)

meisenfek, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 14:55 (eleven years ago)

The final riff of Duke Ellington's "Black and Tan Fantasy" is from Chopin's "Funeral March" (Piano Sonata no. 2)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2AaLd_vETQ

Brad C., Wednesday, 31 December 2014 15:44 (eleven years ago)

Stan Kenton's theme song, Artistry In Rhythm, was apparently derived from the Invocation of the Nymphs in the 2nd Suite of Ravel's Daphnis & Chloe (though Kenton denied ever having heard D & C).

uhwelluh, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:09 (eleven years ago)

is the MJQ disqualified from this thread?

virtuoso thigh slapper (Jordan), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:21 (eleven years ago)

Bill Dixon has several works titled after/dedicated to/inspired by Webern (though they don't reference any specific Webern pieces).

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:22 (eleven years ago)

while looking for schumann string quartet recordings i came across this: http://www.discogs.com/Anthony-Braxton-Robert-Schumann-String-Quartet-Anthony-Braxton-Robert-Schumann-String-Quartet/release/2372563

has anyone heard it? does it use schumann as thematic material or is it just the name of the ensemble?

mister brevis (clouds), Wednesday, 31 December 2014 16:31 (eleven years ago)

Jacques Loussier also probably not what you are looking for?

los blue jeans, Wednesday, 31 December 2014 22:59 (eleven years ago)


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