Billy Childs Ensemble - Raindrop Patterns

from the album "Autumn: In Moving Pictures -- Jazz-Chamber Music Volume II"

Billy Childs won the 2011 Grammy Award for Best Instrumental Composition for the signature piece from this album, "A Path Among the Trees."

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Billy Childs Ensemble:

Billy Childs - composer, arranger, piano
Larry Koonse - guitar
Bob Sheppard - alto saxophone, soprano saxophone, clarinet
Carol Robbins - harp
Scott Colley - bass
Antonio Sanchez - drums


The Ying String Quartet:

Timothy Ying - 1st violin
Janet Ying - 2nd violin
Phillip Ying - viola
David Ying - cello


Winds:

Pamela Vliek Martchev - flute
Gerard Reuter - oboe, English horn
Teag Reaves - French horn
Judith Farmer - bassoon

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[HenryAlliance]

This recording deserves its Grammy nomination. I haven't heard anything this good in this particular style since Chick Corea's Mad Hatter album from 1978. (I'm not including Claus Ogerman orchestrations in this category.)

[fredr1c]

@HenryAlliance As you may have heard by now, Billy Childs did win the 2011 Grammy for Best Instrumental Composition for another piece from this fine album, "A Path Among the Trees." The compositions themselves and the collaboration between these fine musicians make Childs' jazz chamber music albums some of the most moving music I've ever heard.

[johnsl3]

This is outstanding! Billy Childs and Pat Metheny should collaborate on a project in the near future.

[gotrottin]

Not many can create on this level, but I want to thank you Billy for letting me interpret this masterpeice in my own way. This is a thing of of inspired beauty.

[musicgoodmusicgood]

This is it! This is spectacular!

[AngryIndy]

@johnsl3

I would buy whatever the result of that collaboration was without any hesitation.

[LeeChgo]

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[jpApsara]

The first 3 mins sounds a bit like Marcelo Zarvos' jazz ensemble. You should hear 'Music Journal' MA recordings. Recorded in NY 1997 in a Church with Peter Epstein on Soprano Sax. I wonder if Mr. Childs has borrowed from him? I hear a bit of Egberto Gismonti as well. Nonetheless, this is most certainly beautiful music!

[seocrazy]

Thanks for posting. I agree! I haven't heard "Path Among the Tree," but I'm sure it's as pure and beautiful as the other instrumentals on the album. Billy is pulling this music from an extraordinary place. You are correct, this is some of the most beautiful music I've heard to date.

[basschannel]

I heard some of the works on the recording live Saturday night. His Ensemble was truly magical. Bought the CD, and dug it on the drive from LA to SF -- all the way. It's very comforting to know there's always someone there (or here), with us. This is music. Give him a Grammy. This is music.