CHOPIN MEETS THE BLUES

$20.21
Label
CRISS CROSS
Release Date
September 21, 2010
Format
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    Featuring ⌄
    • PERFORMER
      BEETS, PETER
    Product Details ⌄
    • RELEASE DATE
      September 21, 2010
    • UPC
      8712474132928
    • CATALOG NUMBER
      CSS1329.2
    • LABEL
      CRISS CROSS
    • NUMBER OF DISCS
      1
    • GENRE
      Jazz
    Works ⌄

    1. Nocturne No. 2 in E-Flat Major, Op. 9, No. 2 (arr. M. Beets and P. Beets for jazz ensemble)

      Composer: Pietro Alessandro Pavona

      Performer: Peter Beets, Joe Cohn, Reuben Rogers, Gregory Hutchinson

    2. Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 (arr. M. Beets and P. Beets for jazz ensemble)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Peter Beets, Joe Cohn, Reuben Rogers, Gregory Hutchinson

    3. Mazurka No. 13 in A Minor, Op. 17, No. 4 (arr. M. Beets and P. Beets for jazz ensemble)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Peter Beets, Joe Cohn, Reuben Rogers, Gregory Hutchinson

    4. Prelude No. 6 in B Minor, Op. 28, No. 6 (arr. M. Beets and P. Beets for jazz ensemble)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Peter Beets, Joe Cohn, Reuben Rogers, Gregory Hutchinson

    5. Prelude No. 4 in E Minor, Op. 28, No. 4 (arr. M. Beets and P. Beets for jazz ensemble)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Peter Beets, Joe Cohn, Reuben Rogers, Gregory Hutchinson

    6. Nocturne No. 3 in B Major, Op. 9, No. 3 (arr. M. Beets and P. Beets for jazz ensemble)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Peter Beets, Joe Cohn, Reuben Rogers, Gregory Hutchinson

    7. Waltz No. 7 in C-Sharp Minor, Op. 64, No. 2 (arr. M. Beets and P. Beets for jazz ensemble)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Peter Beets, Joe Cohn, Reuben Rogers, Gregory Hutchinson

    8. Nocturne No. 15 in F Minor, Op. 55, No. 1 (arr. M. Beets and P. Beets for jazz ensemble)

      Composer: Frédéric Chopin

      Performer: Peter Beets, Joe Cohn, Reuben Rogers, Gregory Hutchinson


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, although he 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.