1. Marc Copland is an American jazz pianist and composer.
12 Facts About Marc Copland
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Marc Copland has since become noted for his highly developed, colorful use of abstract harmony, often using unusual polychords and elements from atonal music.
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Mel Minter writes that Marc Copland "excels at painting abstract sonic atmospheres".
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Marc Copland was born on May 27,1948, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
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Marc Copland began taking piano lessons at age seven, but stopped abruptly at the age of ten when his public school offered the option of saxophone training.
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In 1966, Marc Copland moved to New York City, where he attended Columbia University.
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Marc Copland became part of a late 1960s and early 1970s New York jazz scene that expanded from the traditional clubs into lofts around the city.
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Marc Copland experimented by adding electronic processors to his alto, culminating in the recording of Friends, an electric jazz album produced by a small New York City start-up label, Oblivion.
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Increasingly Marc Copland was writing music with more complex chords that suggested to him an approach to music very different from his acoustic and electronic saxophone work.
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Marc Copland came to feel that as an instrument, the saxophone was not a suitable vehicle to fully express his musical imagination.
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In Time Within Time Marc Copland wrote his own verse, which helped unify the theme of "time" that is present in the CD title, the cover photograph, and the musical titles and content.
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Marc Copland concentrated on this somewhat neglected format in many of his recordings between 2000 and 2005.