He recorded the Monk trio playing compositions by Duke Ellington, in 1955, and followed that album early the next year with one of the trio performing standards from what wasn't yet called the Great American Songbook.
At the time, computers were too slow to play compositions in "real time".
Elliott Sharp, the composer and bandleader, plays compositions for solo acoustic guitar from his coming album "The Velocity of Hue" (Emanem), pulling together blues and raga, meditation and twang.
This year, he's adding a different twist: a string orchestra will play compositions by American composers, including Copland and Bernstein, then join Mr. Guthrie.
CALVARY EPISCOPAL CHURCH Kathleen Healy-Wedsworth and James S. Little will play compositions for four hands and four feet on the piano, harpischord and organ.
The trio A.C.S. — Geri Allen on piano, Teri Lyne Carrington on drums and Esperanza Spalding on bass — played compositions by Mr. Shorter more straightforwardly, but with their own outlook.
He plays compositions by a street musician from Seattle, a Latina jazz singer fluent in four languages and a band from Montana that plays a cockeyed mix of bluegrass and rap.
The Istanbul Oriental Ensemble, slightly more refined, plays compositions by the group's leader, Burhan Ocal, that are rooted in Gypsy music and propelled by Mr. Ocal's hand drumming on the darbuka.
I compose original music on my computer and in my live show I play compositions that are all mine.
More will come for the A-list piano bar, which will play compositions by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails, Hans Zimmer, and Massive Attack.
