New Directions by Teddy Charles, released on Prestige as part of their Original Jazz Classics series in 1999

Review by Rick Anderson

Vibraphonist Teddy Charles was turning people's heads when he recorded these tracks in the early 1950s...these performances find him taking standards like "Ol' Man River" and "Basin Street Blues" down strange paths and creating unusually challenging "modern" music in collaboration with pianist and pedagogue Hall Overton. The last four tracks on this collection are the most interesting and challenging: titled "Mobiles," "Antiphony," "Metalizing," and "Decibels," they are compositions based on organizational concepts rather than melodic ideas and sound something like a cross between John Cage and Charles Mingus..

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlcMWPrgSt8&list=RDQlcMWPrgSt8&start_radio=1

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Ended Monday and welcomed Tuesday after a swim with Concerto For Viola And Orchestra / Symphony No. 2 In One Movement by Walter Piston, Hall Overton, The Louisville Orchestra, Robert Whitney released on First Edition Records in 1963.

Walter Hamor Piston, Jr. (January 20, 1894 – November 12, 1976), was an American composer of classical music, music theorist, and professor of music at Harvard University.

Hall Franklin Overton (February 23, 1920 – November 24, 1972) was an American composer, jazz pianist and music teacher.

While Overton was writing classical compositions, he was also deeply immersed in jazz, and recorded with such jazz notables as Stan Getz, Duke Jordan, Jimmy Raney and Teddy Charles... - Wikipedia

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PWtmy19gx4&list=RD6PWtmy19gx4&start_radio=1

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