Release Date: 01 November 2010
Label: Criss Cross Jazz
Packaging Type: Jewel Case
No of Units: 1
Barcode: 8712474132928
Genres: Jazz  
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
Oz Noy
M.T.B. (Brad Mehldau / Mark Turner / Peter Bernstein)
Misha Tsiganov
Antonio Farao
Gregory Groover Jr.
Michael Thomas
Warne Marsh
Walt Weiskopf
Peter Beets
Peter Beets, Tom Baldwin & Eric Kennedy
Peter Beets, Stochelo Rosenberg, Frans van Geest & Martin Limberger
Peter Beets
Peter Beets
Peter Beets