Artist: San Francisco Symphony
Album: Russo: Street Music; Three Pieces / Gershwin: An American in Paris
Genre: Classical
Release Date: 1977/2023
Audio Format:: FLAC (tracks) 24 bit, 192 kHz
Duration: 01:13:21
Total Tracks: 8
Total Size: 2,63 GB

Tracklist:

1-1. Corky Siegel – 1st Mvt (08:16)
1-2. Corky Siegel – 2nd Mvt (05:16)
1-3. Corky Siegel – 3rd Mvt (08:51)
1-4. Corky Siegel – 4th Mvt (08:52)
1-5. The Siegel-Schwall Band – 1st Part (08:08)
1-6. Stuart Canin – 2nd Part (08:56)
1-7. The Siegel-Schwall Band – 3rd Part (07:04)
1-8. San Francisco Symphony – An American in Paris (17:56)

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Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra is an avant-garde musical composition written by William Russo in 1968. It combines classical music played by an orchestra with blues played by a four-piece band.

Three Pieces for Blues Band and Symphony Orchestra was recorded in 1972 by the San Francisco Symphony and the Siegel–Schwall Band, conducted by Seiji Ozawa. When the album was released the following year by Deutsche Grammophon, it became one of the company’s best selling records, reaching number 21 on the Billboard Jazz Chart and number 105 on the Billboard 200. Side two of the original LP record was Symphonic Dances from West Side Story by Leonard Bernstein. When the album was reissued on CD in 2002, the Bernstein piece was omitted in favor of An American in Paris by George Gershwin and another Russo composition combining classical and blues, Street Music: A Blues Concerto.