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History of Sound Recording ♪♪♪ Period = 1970s
Four-track tape also enabled the development of quadraphonic sound, in which each of the four tracks was used to simulate a complete 360-degree surround sound. A number of albums were released both in stereo and quadrophonic format in the 1970s, but 'quad' failed to gain wide commercial acceptance. Although it is now considered a gimmick, it was the direct precursor of the surround sound technology that has become standard in many modern home theatre systems.
CORTEZ AND HIS NEW LATIN SOUND
The man "behind" this alias is British arranger, composer and conductor Steve Gray.
Steve Gray started out as a pianist in the early 1960s and moved into professional music as a session player. As a session keyboard player in the 1970s, he played for Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini, Michel Legrand, Lalo Schifrin, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr, John Barry and many others. Exploring composition, he wrote background music for movies, radio and TV. Within a few years he was running his own quintet, Wasp, with ex-Shadows drummer Brian Bennett and saxophonist-composer Duncan Lamont, and recording an incidental melange of light funk, classical, disco, Latin, jazz and electronics.
I WONT DANCE
"I Won't Dance" is a song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, for the 1934 London musical Three Sisters. However, Three Sisters flopped and was quickly forgotten, so when the time came to film the Kern-Harbach musical Roberta, the song was interpolated into the film. It became such a hit that it is now included in all stage revivals and recordings of Roberta.
For the RKO film Roberta (1935), Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh changed the lyrics of the song, only keeping the title, which Hammerstein originated. It is the Fields and McHugh lyrics which are best known today.
The song is anachronistically used as a musical number performed by Felicia Day in the made-for-television biography of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Warm Springs, which largely takes place in the year 1924.
The song was also performed by Lucille Bremer and Van Johnson for the 1946 Kern bio-pic Till the Clouds Roll By. Since the scene takes place in a 20s nightclub, its appearance in the chronology of the film is, again, anachronistic.
MHO
What a superb latin arrangement here of this timeless standard written by one of the icons of American music, Jerome Kern.
British pianist and orchestrator Steve Gray (is it him playing the piano here ..? (album sleeve does not specify)) - whose name is mentioned as being the arranger and conductor of this project, certainly knows his job. Even up to the point where one would think that this latin rendition "is" the original version..... which, of course, is a huge compliment to Mr Gray.
The alias "Cortez" was probably used because it was a better choice commercially, thus "aligning" with the latin music recorded here. Whatever the case.....in mho, this is just fabulous music.
Enjoy !
History of Sound Recording ♪♪♪ Period = 1970s
Four-track tape also enabled the development of quadraphonic sound, in which each of the four tracks was used to simulate a complete 360-degree surround sound. A number of albums were released both in stereo and quadrophonic format in the 1970s, but 'quad' failed to gain wide commercial acceptance. Although it is now considered a gimmick, it was the direct precursor of the surround sound technology that has become standard in many modern home theatre systems.
CORTEZ AND HIS NEW LATIN SOUND
The man "behind" this alias is British arranger, composer and conductor Steve Gray.
Steve Gray started out as a pianist in the early 1960s and moved into professional music as a session player. As a session keyboard player in the 1970s, he played for Quincy Jones, Henry Mancini, Michel Legrand, Lalo Schifrin, Peggy Lee, Sammy Davis Jr, John Barry and many others. Exploring composition, he wrote background music for movies, radio and TV. Within a few years he was running his own quintet, Wasp, with ex-Shadows drummer Brian Bennett and saxophonist-composer Duncan Lamont, and recording an incidental melange of light funk, classical, disco, Latin, jazz and electronics.
I WONT DANCE
"I Won't Dance" is a song composed by Jerome Kern, with lyrics written by Oscar Hammerstein II and Otto Harbach, for the 1934 London musical Three Sisters. However, Three Sisters flopped and was quickly forgotten, so when the time came to film the Kern-Harbach musical Roberta, the song was interpolated into the film. It became such a hit that it is now included in all stage revivals and recordings of Roberta.
For the RKO film Roberta (1935), Dorothy Fields and Jimmy McHugh changed the lyrics of the song, only keeping the title, which Hammerstein originated. It is the Fields and McHugh lyrics which are best known today.
The song is anachronistically used as a musical number performed by Felicia Day in the made-for-television biography of President Franklin D. Roosevelt, Warm Springs, which largely takes place in the year 1924.
The song was also performed by Lucille Bremer and Van Johnson for the 1946 Kern bio-pic Till the Clouds Roll By. Since the scene takes place in a 20s nightclub, its appearance in the chronology of the film is, again, anachronistic.
MHO
What a superb latin arrangement here of this timeless standard written by one of the icons of American music, Jerome Kern.
British pianist and orchestrator Steve Gray (is it him playing the piano here ..? (album sleeve does not specify)) - whose name is mentioned as being the arranger and conductor of this project, certainly knows his job. Even up to the point where one would think that this latin rendition "is" the original version..... which, of course, is a huge compliment to Mr Gray.
The alias "Cortez" was probably used because it was a better choice commercially, thus "aligning" with the latin music recorded here. Whatever the case.....in mho, this is just fabulous music.
Enjoy !
