Andy Warhol... Prince of Pop Art... Manager of the Velvet Underground... Cultural Icon. 4CD collection of music originally released with artwork by the legendary artist. In 1949, the ambitious young Andy Warhola moved to New York to pursue a career as a commercial artist. "The future is New York City," he told his sceptical mother. As an illustrator, it was the unusual quality of Andy's drawing that drew the attention of clients and other artists, including Peter Blake: "What attracted me was a certain fluid, broken line. Matisse draws in one line. Warhol made the pen stutter. ' Before transitioning into the internationally acclaimed artist of the serious avant-garde, Andy established himself as one of the most sought-after commercial artists of the decade. His clients included virtually every fashion magazine in the NYC and the record labels Columbia, RCA and Blue Note, for whom he designed a diversity of jazz and classical record album sleeves, sometimes collaborating with the brilliant graphic designer Reid Miles and often with Julia Warhola, his mother, whose ornate calligraphy is unmistakable in Andy's early art. The first three discs of this edition present selections of the music to be found on the albums Warhol designed for record companies in the years leading up to the Pop Art Explosion; from Chopin to Moondog, from George Gershwin to Thelonious Monk. Disc Four, 'Andy's New York', provides a suitably evocative backdrop to Warhol's rise to prominence, showcasing the work of many of the pioneering jazz and avant-garde artists in the NYC of those times, including such giants as Charles Mingus, John Cage and - in the vanguard of free form jazz - a personal favourite of Lou Reed, Ornette Coleman.

Tracklist:

Gioachino Rossini - William Tell Overture - NBC Symphony Orchestra / Arturo Toscanini
Carlos ChÃ¡vez - Xochipili-Macuilxochitl - An Imagined Aztec Music
Carlos ChÃ¡vez: Danza a Centeotl from los Cuatro Soles (The Four Suns)
Sergei Prokofiev - Field of the Dead from Alexander Nevsky, Op. 78
Jennie Tourel (Mezzo-Soprano), Philadelphia Orchestra, Westminster Choir / Eugene Ormandy
Robert Schumann - Des Abends (In the Evening) from FantasiestÃ¼cke, Op. 12 - Arthur Rubinstein: Piano
Ludwig Van Beethoven - Adagio Cantabile from Piano Sonata No. 8, in C Minor, Op. 13 "PathÃ©tique" Arthur Rubinstein: Piano
Manuel de Falla - Ritual Fire Dance / Boston Pops Orchestra / Arthur Fiedler
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - Allegro Moderato from Violin Concerto in D Major, Op 35 - Erica Morini, Chicago Symphony Orchestra /
George Gershwin - Rhapsody in Blue / Byron Janis: Piano
George Gershwin - Porgy and Bess: A Symphonic Picture - Arr. Robert Russell Bennett / Indianapolis Symphony / Fabien Sevitzky
Kenny Burrell - But Not for Me
No. 1 in B-Flat Minor: Larghetto
No. 2 in E-Flat Major: Andante
No. 3 in B Major: Allegretto
14 No. 1 in F Major: Andante Cantabile
15 No. 2 in F-Sharp Major: Larghetto
16 No. 3 in G Minor: Lento
7th Avenue Express
Wonderful Thing
Rat Race
Top Hat, White Tie and Tails
Jungle Drums
Lady Day
Riviera
Hip Bones
Wind Bag
We'll Be Together Again
Bennie Green - Whirl-A-Licks
Cool Gabriels - Elevation
We See
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Locomotive
Perpetual Motion
Trimbas in Quarters
Trimbas in Eighths
Organ Rounds
I'm Glad There Is You
Yes Baby
Autumn in New York
Eric Dolphy ; Booker Little - Ode to Charlie Parker
Charles Mingus - Better Git It in Your Soul
Morton Feldman - Piece for Four Pianos
Ornette Coleman - Peace
Lambert Hendricks ; Ross - Cloudburst
Jimmy Giuffre 3 - Brief Hesitation
Gunther Schuller - Abstract Trio from Seven Studies on Themes of Paul Klee
John Cage - Sonatas and Interludes for Prepared Piano: Sonata II
Modern Jazz Quartet - Versailles
Bill Evans Trio - Alice in Wonderland
Luciano Berio ; Cathy Berberian - Circles
Cecil Taylor Quartet with Albert Ayler - Four (Excerpt)
Lenny Bruce - Blah Blah Blah

UPC: 5013929337039
Label: El Records
Release Date: 11.24.23
Format: CD

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