Release Date: 21 September 2018
Label: HighNote Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 632375731724
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Release Date: 21 September 2018
Label: HighNote Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 632375731724
Genres: Jazz  Contemporary  
Description
For this recording Cyrus Chestnut has arranged eight 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.
The jazz piano trio, a specialism with its own lineage and admirers, is currently alive and well thanks to the artists such as those 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 its parameters without losing sight of its historic past.
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.
Personnel: Cyrus Chestnut (piano), Eric Wheeler (bass), Chris Beck (drums)
Tracklisting
Houston Person
Charlie Sepulveda & The Turnaround
Tom Harrell
Black Art Jazz Collective
Jeremy Pelt
Black Art Jazz Collective
Eric Alexander
Sheila Jordan
Cyrus Chestnut
Cyrus Chestnut
Cyrus Chestnut
Cyrus Chestnut
Cyrus Chestnut
Cyrus Chestnut
Cyrus Chestnut