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14 September 2022
interview,
Alison Balsom on Quiet City
by Katherine Cooper
Featuring
music by Copland, Bernstein, Gershwin, Ives and Rodrigo via Miles Davis and Gil Evans,
Alison Balsom's Quiet City explores what the British trumpet-player describes as the
'delicious melting of boundaries' between classical and jazz in mid-twentieth-century
America, and featured as our Recording of the Week at the end of last month.
Alison and I spoke shortly before the album's release about her long-standing love for the
Copland piece which gives the album its title, the two legendary players who would win
