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Winner of the prestigious BASCA British composition award, multi-instrumentalist Andy Scott is a versatile contemporary musician with a distinctive saxophone and compositional approach that includes elements jazz, worldmusic and contemporary classical music. Scott works to order, often for leading instrumentalists and ensembles on the world scene. He teaches at the composition and saxophone departments at Royal Northern College of Music, is a popular course leader and holds lectures and workshops around the world. In addition to being a band leader in his groups and projects, Andy is regularly invited as a guest to lead and direct large groups and creative projects. For more than thirty years he has been launching creative collaborative projects, one of which is dedicated to the music of Moondog and his work "Bird's Lament" for Charlie Parker, which he realizes with the SAX-UMAS Ensemble.
The unconventional composer, poet, music theorist, musical instrument inventor and performer Moondog wrote "Bird's Lament" in 1955, following the death of saxophonist Charlie Parker, who went by the nickname Bird. He was friends with him in the early 1950s, when they often talked about music and the possibilities of collaboration, which never happened. It is a work that represents hi
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Moondog (1969 album)
1969 studio album by Moondog
Moondog is an album by the American composer Moondog, released by Columbia Masterworks Records on October 1, 1969. The album was made on the initiative of the producer James William Guercio and recorded at Columbia's main studio with Moondog conducting 50 musicians. It consists of compositions written by Moondog in the 1950s and '60s as he moved from jazz conventions into becoming a classical composer, resulting in a combination of classical influences and elements of what critics have described as minimalist music and third stream. The album includes short symphonic-styled works, canons, chaconnes and a couple of jazz-inspired tracks, one in memory of Charlie Parker.
Moondog received considerable media exposure and positive reviews. It peaked as number six on the Billboard chart for classical music. Moondog was regarded as an eccentric, known for standing at a street corner in New York dressed in a homemade Viking costume, and the album contributed significantly to his reputation as a serious composer.
Background
[edit]Louis Hardin (1916 – 1999) was a blind composer and musician who was born in Kansas as the son of a priest, moved to New York City in 1943 and took the name Moondog in 1947. From the late 1940