Video: WALTER MURPHY & THE BIG APPLE BAND - A Fifth Of Beethoven

One of my favorite musical sub-genres (or maybe sub-sub-genre) is when modern musicians take classical music and put an updated spin on it. What might at first glance seem disrespectful can produce some intriguing sounds. It's long been a common practice among jazz musicians, and even has a name - "jazzin' the classics " - but in at least one instance it also invaded disco. Walter Murphy has been a fixture in music for a number of years, but for the early part of his career was pretty much behind the scenes. A talented keyboardist [...]

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Everybody remembers Travolta in his white suit, dancing to the Bee Gees — but that wasn't the only music around.