Bolero at Tiffany's

Joseph Maurice Ravel
French Neo-classical composer
(7 March 1875 – 28 December 1937)
"Bolero," Ravel once said, "is seventeeen minutes of orchestra without music." After all, he further qualified, this piece was "an experiment in a very special and limited direction." To the contrary, the musical society and public have deemed it a great favorite piece of all time.

Tomorrow, 7 March, is Ravel's 136 birthday anniversary. For this occasion, I thought you might enjoy listening to a three-minute jazz version of "Bolero" interlaced with Henry Mancini "Moon River".

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The Opera Swing Quartet and the Philharmonie Merck (2008)
- Bolero at Tiffany's (after Ravel and Mancini)