Release Date: 12 January 2024
Label: Red Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 027312331226
Genres: Jazz  
Release Date: 12 January 2024
Label: Red Records
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 027312331226
Genres: Jazz  
Description
Pianist and composer Markelian Kapedani is one of the most emblematic exponents of the Albanian social and cultural renewal in the years following the fall of the Berlin wall. One of the basic aspects of his playing and writing is the extraordinary ability to create a wonderful fusion between jazz and the formal traditions of Western Classic Music, and the folk music of the Balkans .
Presented here are fourteen solo piano performances made up of Kapedani original compositions and arrangements of traditional Balken folk tunes.
"Incredible! How is it possible that, from one of the most closed and impenetrable nations in Europe, comes one of the most open, universal, and musically transversal works that I have ever heard?" - Giuseppe Trotto, ReMusic
Tracklisting
Johnny Dyani
Art Pepper
Woody Shaw Quintet
Victor Lewis Quintet
Ronnie Mathews
Fred Hersch, Steve La Spina, Jeff Hirshfield & Jerry Bergonzi
Steve Wilson - Lewis Nash Duo
Joe Henderson
Azymuth
Shelly Manne
Brother Jack McDuff
Mark Dresser
Prefuse 73
Prefuse 73
Ross McHenry
Open Thread (Peggy Lee, Julien Wilson, Theo Carbo, Dylan van der Schyff)