{"id":3423,"date":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-01T22:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jazzusa.com\/ravels-greatest-hit-the-ultimate-bolero\/"},"modified":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","modified_gmt":"2011-01-01T22:21:10","slug":"ravels-greatest-hit-the-ultimate-bolero","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/?p=3423","title":{"rendered":"Ravel&#8217;s Greatest Hit &#8211; The Ultimate Bolero"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/storypix\/TheUltimateBolero.jpg\" width=\"120\" alt=\"Ravel's Greatest Hit\" align=\"left\" border=\"1\" vspace=\"0\"\/><font size=\"3\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:16px\"><strong>Ravel&#8217;s Greatest Hit<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font size=\"4\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:18px\" color=\"Blue\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\">  <strong> The Ultimate Bolero<\/strong><\/font><br \/><font face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" size=\"1\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:11px\">(RCA &#8211; 2004) <br \/> by Matthew Robinson<\/font><br \/><font size=\"2\" style=\"font-face:verdana; font-size:13px\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\">  While almost everyone knows the theme from &#8220;Bolero&#8221; (you know&#8212; baaaa- ba ba-da da-da ba-da ba da-daaa!), few may have considered it beyond its orchestral orientations. On this new compilation, this legendary &#8220;one-hit wonder&#8221; is interpreted in 10 different (often very different) ways, demonstrating how original this &#8220;repetitive&#8221; theme can be. From the trilling percussion of Evelyn Glennie to Isao Tomita&#8217;s sweeping synths and from the four-handed keywork of Jaques Fray and Mario Braggiotti to the 50-fingered flights of The Canadian Brass, the variations on this famous theme are impressive and often intriguing. <\/p>\n<p>  Even Benny Goodman takes a swing! And Boston fans get two- a lush and languid one from the Charles Munch and the Boston Symphony Orchestra and a short and snappy one from the Boston Pops, led by the beloved Arthur Fiedler. &#8220;One-hit wonder&#8221;? Maybe. But this &#8220;hit&#8221;  was (and continues to be) a home run!<br \/><font size=\"1\"><br \/>  \u00a9 2004, M. S. Robinson, ARR<\/font>  <\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"> <font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Helvetica\" color=\"#000000\" style=\"font-size:14px\">       <cfinclude template=\"adbanner.asp\"\/><\/font><\/p>\n<p>  <?php require($DOCUMENT_ROOT . \"_footer.htm\");   ??><\/font><\/body><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ravel&#8217;s Greatest Hit The Ultimate Bolero(RCA &#8211; 2004) by Matthew<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jazzusa.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}