Jazz Crossovers

[Ella Beck]

Jazz and classical music crossover:

 

[Ella Beck]

'Fly me to the moon'.

 

[Ella Beck]

'Love is a many-splendoured thing' - romantic ballad played as jazz.

 

[Ella Beck]

Morton Gould's 'China Blue' - a crossover of jazz with oriental music that is considered to be a piece of classical music too.

 

[John Watt]

I used to sing along with a lot of Andrews Sisters with my mother, but these aren't them.

 

[Ella Beck]

A fusion of jazz and classical music here in Duke Ellington's 'Jazz Symphony', Black Brown and Beige:

 

[Ella Beck]

Another crossover of jazz and classical music -
James Price Johnson : Yamekraw (1927), arr. for jazz piano and orchestra by William Grant Still.

And it's lovely.

 

[Ella Beck]

Traditional Christmas Carols played as jazz - Happy Christmas, friends.

 

[Taggart]

Brubeck was another who crossed over

 

[Ella Beck]

Brubeck was another who crossed over

I wonder how you categorise 'Take Five'? It's Jazz, but it's now a classic and is set as a piece to play in the violin exam that I'm hoping to take.

 

[Ella Beck]

Listen to the ultimate fusion of jazz & classical music on this video - 'Brubeck meets Bach'.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQO90Q_E4rg

 

[Ella Beck]

A great 'crossover' artist (gospel with blues & rock) - Rosetta Tharpe.

 

[trumpetq]

Classical/Jazz/Hip-hop crossover group

Here's a great classical / jazz / hip-hop crossover group in NYC that's been doing a lot of cool stuff recently, called Shouthouse.

 

[DianaHol]

Beautyfull perfomance!