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Wydawnictwo: Challenge Records
Nr katalogowy: CR 73550
Nośnik: 1 CD
Data wydania: styczeń 2023
EAN: 608917355024
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Epoka muzyczna: współczesna
Obszar (język): angielski (USA)
Instrumenty: fortepian, kontrabas

Lewis / Duke: Blues & Bach

Challenge Records - CR 73550
Wykonawcy
Enrico Pieranunzi Trio:
Mauro Beggio, drums
Enrico Pieranunzi, piano
Luca Bulgarelli, double bass
Orchestra Filarmonica Italiana / Michele Corcella
Skating in Central Park
Spanish Steps
Vendome
Autumn in New York
Django
Concorde
Milano
Jasmine Tree
Classical/pop, rock/classical, classical/jazz, fusion: the list of possible crossovers can get very long. What all these couplings have in common is the desire to blend two or more different languages. It is a bit like triggering a chemical reaction, the outcome of which no longer has anything to do with the original components of the reaction itself. In the more specific field of jazz/classical music crossover, the 1920s were crucial. In fact, they gave us one of the first, absolutely extraordinary, works of the genre: the famous “Rhapsody in Blue.” In this masterpiece, Gershwin achieved exceptional results thanks to his merging of elements from American popular music, particularly the blues, with others typical of the European classic tradition.

John Lewis moved in the same direction as Gershwin, but from a very different vision and experience. Indeed, Lewis was an excellent jazz pianist (it’s enough to think of his collaborations with Charlie Parker and Miles Davis) where Gershwin, who was also a phenomenal pianist and very well-versed in the jazz of his time, was strictly speaking never a full-time jazz pianist. But above all Lewis, besides being a great jazz player, was deeply in love with the music of Bach and from the earliest years of his career onward made the blues/Bach pair the banner of his artistic life. The Modern Jazz Quartet, which he founded in 1952 – for nearly half a century one of the most celebrated groups on the international jazz scene was the unmistakable vehicle of his musical conception and the real workshop of his highly original crossover.

As a final thought, we would like to add that “Blues and Bach” is a kind of documentation in music of our two musical biographies. Indeed, encountering blues and Bach were fundamental experiences for both of us, and it is precisely thanks to John Lewis’ dream of blending two musical worlds so far apart that these experiences have been happily brought together here.

Recorded at Cavalli Musica Auditorium in Castrezzato (Brescia, Italy), September 16 & 17, 2021.

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