Loose Cuts
Gifts & Messages
- Composer
- Tchaikovsky
- Released
- 1964
- Label
- Mercury
- Forces
- saxophone; quartet
Kirk rarely allowed a tune to remain sealed off from the rest of musical history: Gifts & Messages is full of quotations, puns and melodies wandering into one another. “March On, Swan Lake” treats Tchaikovsky as part of that teeming memory, with the ballet theme becoming material for a hard-bop quartet rather than a polite concert encore.
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The originalsTchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act II No. 10, Scène
Jazzed upMarch On, Swan Lake
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- March On, Swan LakeTchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act II No. 10, Scène