Loose Cuts
Silver Rain
- Composer
- Beethoven
- Released
- 2005
- Label
- 3 Deuces Records
- Forces
- bass; quartet
The idea began at home while Miller’s son was practising Beethoven. Miller irritated him by adding an upright-bass line and singing the beat, then developed the joke into a gospel-tinged 6/8 arrangement because, as he put it, Beethoven struck him as “a soulful cat”.
Hear both
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 originalsBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2, I. Adagio sostenuto
Jazzed upMoonlight Sonata
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The cut
The classical-derived cut from this record, with its source work.
- Moonlight SonataBeethoven: Piano Sonata No. 14 in C sharp minor, Op. 27 No. 2, I. Adagio sostenuto