For today's Sunday Music Muse Day there are two more selections from the Jazz90.1 Rochester Jazz Festival tent CD bin (see my last Sunday Music Muse Day post). First up, Peter Erskine & the Jam Music Lab All-Stars - Vienna to Hollywood - Impressions of E.W. Korngold & Max Steiner (The CD title is a real mouthful) Of course, Peter Erskine's name caught my eye, as I'm a fan of his drumming from his days with Weather Repor and his solo career as a leader. I recognised Max Steiner as the composer of the 1933 King Kong movie score. Erskine related the project started from him overhearing Joe Zawinul, the keyboardist and co-founder of Weather Report playing "one of the loveliest melodies I'd ever heard" at concert hall soundcheck. Written by Erich von Krongold, who had fled Nazi Austria for hollywood to do film scoring. This is a really interesting CD for all the levels of music it explores and includes.
Next up is Oz Noy - Fun One. Oz Noy is a jazz fusion guitar I first came to know from a track on a CD of his that John Sneider, brother of Bob Sneider, played trumpet on. This quartet session features several well-known jazz tunes, and great playing by Noy, so it's well worth giving it a listen.
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