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Article: Geoff Muldaur's Futuristic Ensemble Private Astronomy: a Vision of the Music of Bix Beiderbecke.(Sound Recording Review)
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- March 22, 2004
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Back in the 1960s. Len Chandler (a classical oboe player) was described in a review as "musician turned folksinger." "This comes to mind when one realizes that Geoff Muldaur is probably the one of the few prominent figures on the folk scene with the musical training to attempt an album like this. The core pieces here are a series of arrangements of Bix Beiderbecke's piano compositions for a chamber ensemble of violin, brass and woodwinds, building on Beiderbecke's fondness for composers like Ravel and Debussy. These are interspersed with big band vocal numbers featuring Muldaur, Loudon Wainwright III and various younger Muldaurs and Wainwrights, all ...
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... ... aspirations were revived when I saw Geoff Muldaur on television. It was ``The Mike ... Singing lead vocals with the band was Geoff Muldaur, and the opening act was the Star ... only three white blues singers -- Geoff Muldaur is at least two of them.'' His former ...
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