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Chopin Meets The Blues

Peter Beets

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Format: CD

Cat No: CRISS1329CD

Release Date:  01 November 2010

Label:  Criss Cross Jazz

Packaging Type:  Jewel Case

No of Units:  1

Barcode:  8712474132928

Genres:  Jazz  

  • Description

    Chopin melodies used as a basis for jazz improvisation? In the wrong hands, the results could be truly catastrophic. Yet it's a notion with great appeal for celebrated Dutch piano marvel Peter Beets. "Why, melodic embellishment is at the heart of everything that Chopin wrote!' enthuses Peter. "In fact, he was composing tunes ideal for bebop, althoughhe couldn't have known it at the time." It's a happy coincidence that the fifth Criss Cross CD under Beets' leadership arrives during the bicentennial year of Chopin's birth. But it's clearly not a project haphazardly thrown together at the last moment. Instead, Peter recruited three of New York's premier jazzmen – guitarist Joe Cohn, bassist Reuben Rogers and drummer Greg Hutchinson – as co-conspirators. Together, this quartet wrings extraordinary measures of beauty, excitement and yes, fun from eight of Chopin's most memorable pieces. Their collaboration is, in a word, breathtaking

  • Tracklisting

      Disc 1

      Side 1

      • 1. Nocturne in Eb Major Opus 9 # 2
      • 2. Nocturne in F Minor Opus 55 # 1 (1)
      • 3. Mazurka In A Minor Opus 17 # 4
      • 4. Prelude In B Minor Opus 28 # 6
      • 5. Prelude In E Minor Opus 28 # 4
      • 6. Nocturne In B Major Opus 9 # 3
      • 7. Waltz In C# Minor Opus 64 # 2
      • 8. Nocturne In F Minor Opus 55 # 1 (2)