Loose Cuts
One
- Composer
- Mussorgsky
- Released
- 1974
- Label
- CTI Records
- Forces
- piano; orchestra
Bob James regarded One less as the start of a solo career than as an audition for more arranging work. “Night on Bald Mountain” received enough radio play to change that plan within six months, while its featured drummer Steve Gadd later credited the widely heard performance with helping to establish his own reputation.
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The classical side carries the source work this cut came from. The jazz side carries the cut itself. Each player holds what is available, and the two need not match.
The originalsMussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain, in the Rimsky-Korsakov revision
Jazzed upNight on Bald Mountain
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The cut
The classical-derived cut from this record, with its source work.
- Night on Bald MountainMussorgsky: Night on Bald Mountain, in the Rimsky-Korsakov revision