CP Posted May 7, 2002 Share Posted May 7, 2002 Was just reading the who's your favorite keyboardist topic and it got me to thinking about composers. My favorites are: 1. Duke Ellington 2. Stevie Wonder 3. Antonio Carlos Jobim 4. Burt Bacarach Had alot of conversations recently with some of my friends who are musicians. They all mention the first three whenever I bring up the topic. However, everybody forgets about Burt Bacarach. When I bring him up they go,"Yeah that's right, great composer, I forgot about him". They all agree that Ellington is probably the greatest composer of our time, maybe all-time. Kinda hard to say all-time, when you have Bach, Beethoven, etc. Anyway just wondering. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1Empress_Scorpio Posted May 7, 2002 Share Posted May 7, 2002 No favorites here but definitely a few greats in my life time that I really adore and awe over! In no particular order: Song-writters/composers/innovators (what ever) because these individuals fall into their very own "catagories" -- Bjork (queen-pixie of electronic music); Elizabeth Fraser (magnificent other-worldly voice of piercing innovated language); Lisa Gerard (goddess of note); Loreena McKennitt (witch-faerie and journeyer); Wong, Faye (powerhouse voice of trasient being); anyone else you can think of? peace and harmony throughout all the worlds, Vi An www.mp3.com/just_vi_an Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
progfusion74 Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 No question in my mind. At his peak .. Miles!!! http://www.indiegrooves.com/dnm/images/dnm_small.gif My Blog Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meriphew_dup1 Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 Vangelis _____________________ Post indie electronic Meriphew www.meriphew.com www.meriphew.com Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Peake Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 Beethoven. Modern? Morton Subotnick and Penderecki. Give me the ANALOG and no one gets HURT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gulliver Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 J. S. Bach R. Wagner C. Debussy ------------------ Dave Stewart Tony Banks Kit Watkins (Almost all of them - brilliant keyboard players as well ) I am back. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Zeger Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 Is there a difference between "composer" and "songwriter"? Ellington certainly blurs the line, as does Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, etc. Of "classical" composers, probably Stravinsky. For contemporary composers, Pat Metheny and Lyle Mays are likely at the top of my list. I'd say that Ivan Lins is another favorite composer, but I think of him more as a songwriter, like James Taylor. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tusker Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 Bach, Mozart, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky..in formal music. They are not necessarily the composers of my favorite pieces, but they are the ones who still make my jaw drop with almost anything they wrote. Modern - I do like Metheny/Mays a lot. Love Bacharach, Lennon-McCartney, Lerner-Lowe and ...... OK I confess. I really like Andrew Loyd Weber. Hate him too ya know? Jerry Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RABid Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 Beetoven Robert This post edited for speling. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
shniggens Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 -Zappa -Beethoven Amateur Hack Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Botch. Posted May 8, 2002 Share Posted May 8, 2002 Donald Fagen/Walter Becker Botch "Eccentric language often is symptomatic of peculiar thinking" - George Will www.puddlestone.net Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sevush Posted May 10, 2002 Share Posted May 10, 2002 Thelonius Monk Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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