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Examples of Persona Recordings playable online are offered as music history, music appreciation, education and demonstrations of Persona Studio's arranging, recording and mastering techniques. All the recordings are completed in house by Stephen Gislason. The music selections and their history are described in the book, Sound of Music.
Chick Corea
Chick Corea is regarded as one of the important jazz musicians. I have mentioned Chick in the context of Miles Davis and fusion jazz. Chick was one of the talented musicians who played with Miles in the 1960s and continued to develop his own innovative fusion music in the 1970’s. His band, Return to Forever, featured electronic instruments and Brazilian, Spanish-American musical styles. Corea, bassist Stanley Clarke and guitarist Al Di Meola all became world class musicians. Chick's groups have won 15 Grammy awards.
Spain, Corea's most popular piece first appeared in the 1972 Return to Forever album, Light as a Feather. Corea has continued to feature this piece in live performance and wrote an arrangement for piano and symphony orchestra in 1999. Spain has been a popular Latin Jazz piece, played by many groups -- I have heard noisy, terrible versions by less than qualified bands. My desire was to retain the melodic and rhythmic energy of the original, again featuring brass and flugelhorn solos.
Sometime Ago - La Fiesta My involvement with this piece stretched out over several weeks as I attempted to edit and create new voicing for the key parts. La fiesta originally was a long piece that featured the vocals of Flora Purim, Corea keyboard virtuosity and a frenzied Latino closing. My performance is intended to be an interesting, briefer, more controlled version that features flugehorn solos. The MP3 player on this page plays an even shorter version of Fiesta as a taste.
Persona Music Recordings Our Music Catalogue includes recorded performances by the P2500 Band, Em4U, and the Persona Classical Consort. Music downloads are delivered from our companion website: Persona Digital Online. Music Downloads are albums, packaged as MP3 files in a zip folder. Download the zip folder and save. In Windows, click on the folder and choose the extract all option to unzip the files to your hard drive. A new folder containing the MP3 files will be created. The MP3 files will play on all computers, laptops, notebooks, smart phones, iPods,. iPads, CD and DVD players and all portable music players. Some albums contain liner notes or minibooks as PDF files that introduce the music. Some music recordings and Free Music Downloads are offered to illustrate music history, advance music education and appreciation. The recordings presented online demonstrate Persona Studio's arranging, recording and mastering techniques. All the recordings are completed in house by Stephen Gislason. The music selections and their history are explained in the book, Sound of Music. More About Downloads.
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Our Music Catalogue includes recorded performances by the P2500 Band, Em4U, and
the Persona Classical Consort. Music downloads and books are available from our
companion website:
Persona Digital Online.