Dutton Vocalion's Morton Gould Showcase brings to the CD catalog a number of important 78-era recordings of Morton Gould for the first time. Even those familiar with Gould's famous recordings of orchestral pop made for RCA Victor's Living Stereo imprint may not be familiar with the fact that Gould originally pursued this musical tack in the 1940s for Columbia and yet earlier on radio -- he was truly one of the pioneers of the easy listening genre. Yet not everything here would readily qualify as easy listening; his own ...
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Dutton Vocalion's Morton Gould Showcase brings to the CD catalog a number of important 78-era recordings of Morton Gould for the first time. Even those familiar with Gould's famous recordings of orchestral pop made for RCA Victor's Living Stereo imprint may not be familiar with the fact that Gould originally pursued this musical tack in the 1940s for Columbia and yet earlier on radio -- he was truly one of the pioneers of the easy listening genre. Yet not everything here would readily qualify as easy listening; his own tough, sassy, and jazzy Interplay for piano and orchestra as heard here could almost qualify as to what George Gershwin might have written had he lived into the 1940s. Made in New York between 1942 and 1947, and despite issuance on horrible-sounding, rough-surfaced laminated Columbia 78s; these recordings were originally transcribed on state-of-the-art 16" lacquers running at 33.3 rpm. Alas, transfer engineer Michael Dutton did not have access to these originals and appears to rely on...
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