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Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (ctdeupree) — Sat, 10 Feb 2024 18:35:42 +0000

The final movement in the Moods Suite is Primitive (Moods V). The fourth movement, Blues, is forthcoming.

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (budo) — Tue, 17 Oct 2023 20:16:03 +0000

ctdeupree wrote:

Here is the first piece in Bloom's Moods: Suite for Piano from 1931, Metropolitan.
Metropolitan (Moods I) by Rube Bloom

another very cool piece from him! loved it!

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (ctdeupree) — Mon, 16 Oct 2023 14:39:50 +0000

Here is the first piece in Bloom's Moods: Suite for Piano from 1931, Metropolitan.

Metropolitan (Moods I) by Rube Bloom

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (ctdeupree) — Mon, 07 Aug 2023 15:40:50 +0000

Continuing with Bloom's Moods: Suite for Piano from 1931, here is the third piece of the set, Gypsy.

Gypsy (Moods III) by Rube Bloom

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (ctdeupree) — Thu, 06 Jul 2023 19:21:54 +0000

A couple more videos featuring the music of Rube Bloom. First up, another piece from the 1920s when Bloom was still in the post-ragtime phase, Silhouette (A Musical Outline) from 1927, again featuring some of my father's Ohio covered bridge photographs from the 1960s.

Silhouette (A Musical Outline) by Rube Bloom

The other video is Valse Petite, the second piece from Moods, a suite that Bloom published in 1931, with visuals are by Vythm, a visual synthesizer from MKGames Art & Visuals.

Valse Petite (Moods II) by Rube Bloom

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (budo) — Sun, 11 Jun 2023 02:21:41 +0000

another charming piece and performance! unfortunately my trips on the M4 haven't always been as charming

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (ctdeupree) — Fri, 09 Jun 2023 19:44:39 +0000

Another late composition by Mr. Bloom, here is Fifth Avenue Bus from 1946.

Fifth Avenue Bus by Rube Bloom

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (budo) — Sat, 01 Apr 2023 18:18:25 +0000

two very cool pieces. i enjoyed the snow and the trippy visualizer video. the rag is certainly futuristic ... i don't recall any extended whole-tone scale passages in Scott Joplin!

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (ctdeupree) — Thu, 30 Mar 2023 16:57:38 +0000

A couple of new videos featuring the music of Rube Bloom. The first is Waterfall Serenade from 1946, featuring visuals from a unusual snowfall that we had this month here in Tucson, Arizona, USA. I'm sure it's nothing for those of you who live in parts of the world where snow is a regular thing, but it was very pretty while it was here (and gone pretty quickly too).

Waterfall Serenade by Rube Bloom

The second new video is Bloom's earliest published composition, from 1923, and his only composition with the word 'Rag' in the title, That Futuristic Rag, with psychedelic visuals by Vythm.

That Futuristic Rag by Rube Bloom

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (budo) — Sun, 19 Feb 2023 18:11:23 +0000

another great tune from this composer. also liked the trippy video

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (ctdeupree) — Sat, 18 Feb 2023 18:53:30 +0000

Continuing my exploration of this composer from the 1920s and 1930s, here is Sapphire: A Musical Gem, published in 1927.

Sapphire: A Musical Gem

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (Krisp) — Sun, 22 Jan 2023 06:47:25 +0000

ctdeupree wrote:

Unbeknownst to me when I started investigating the music of Rube Bloom, he wrote some well-known pop songs in addition to his piano pieces. He wrote a piece called "Shangraila" in 1936 for a production number in Chicago. Four years later, Bloom played the song for his New York publishers, and they suggested bringing in Johnny Mercer to write new lyrics, which were much more successful for the new song, entitled Fools Rush In. Over the years the song has been recorded by many of the great singers of the day, including Sinatra, Julie London, the Four Freshmen, Etta James, and even Elvis. This arrangement by British music hall performer Billy Mayerl was recorded and published in 1940. Visuals by ffmpeg using the showcpt filter (hat tip to hanysz for demonstrating this technique in his beautiful videos).
Fools Rush In by Rube Bloom, arranged for piano by Billy Mayerl

Bravo! A lot of delicacy and humor in your musical playing.

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (ctdeupree) — Sat, 21 Jan 2023 19:36:40 +0000

Unbeknownst to me when I started investigating the music of Rube Bloom, he wrote some well-known pop songs in addition to his piano pieces. He wrote a piece called "Shangraila" in 1936 for a production number in Chicago. Four years later, Bloom played the song for his New York publishers, and they suggested bringing in Johnny Mercer to write new lyrics, which were much more successful for the new song, entitled Fools Rush In. Over the years the song has been recorded by many of the great singers of the day, including Sinatra, Julie London, the Four Freshmen, Etta James, and even Elvis. This arrangement by British music hall performer Billy Mayerl was recorded and published in 1940. Visuals by ffmpeg using the showcpt filter (hat tip to hanysz for demonstrating this technique in his beautiful videos).

Fools Rush In by Rube Bloom, arranged for piano by Billy Mayerl

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (budo) — Sat, 12 Nov 2022 01:23:27 +0000

ctdeupree wrote:

Here is another one by Rube Bloom, Spring Fever, published in 1926. The illustrations are photographs of covered bridges in central Ohio from the early 1960s.
Spring Fever by Rube Bloom

very fun piece and excellent performance!

Re: Rube Bloom, early Jazz composer

null@example.com (ctdeupree) — Fri, 11 Nov 2022 13:59:19 +0000

Here is another one by Rube Bloom, Spring Fever, published in 1926. The illustrations are photographs of covered bridges in central Ohio from the early 1960s.

Spring Fever by Rube Bloom