Title: Kaleidoscope Artist: Cyrus Chestnut Label: Highnote Product Type: COMPACT DISCS UPC: 632375731724 Genre: Pop Release Date: 2018-08-31 Number of Discs: 1
2018 release. The jazz piano trio, a specialism with it's own lineage and admirers, is currently alive and well thanks to the artists here on Kaleidoscope. A keyboard master such as Cyrus Chestnut can imbue this tried-and-true format - whose practitioners range from Jelly Roll Morton to Robert Glasper - with a relevance for today's listeners and expand it's parameters without losing sight of it's historic past. For this recording Cyrus has arranged 8 compositions by the classical pianists W.A. Mozart, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and Eric Satie, taking the classical themes through a series of rhythmic and harmonic turns and twists and subjecting them to a wildly innovative series of transformations. Through it all Cyrus Chestnut emerges as a multi-faceted artist who, using the venerable jazz piano trio format, can refract the past through his own imagination and create something new which is always fresh and exciting.
Tracks: 1.1 Golliwog's Cakewalk 1.2 Darn That Dream 1.3 Gymnopedie No. 1 1.4 Entre Cloches 1.5 Jimbo's Lullaby 1.6 Father Time 1.7 Lord I Want to Be a Christian 1.8 Son Binocle 1.9 Smoke on the Water 1.10 Gnossienne No. 1 1.11 Gymnopedie No. 3 1.12 Turkish Rondo 1.13 Prayer for Claudine
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