Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala offers his personal history of the music that captivated him when he was 13. "My history of jazz" takes us from Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, upon which Rantala threads the album like a string of pearls, to George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol, Thelonious Monk and the Swedish cool jazz saxophonist Lars Gullin, alongside five original Rantala compositions. With "my history of jazz" Rantala places himself at the head of a new pianist generation that liberates itself from the inflated cult of the "all new" and instead returns to build on the old jazz tradition of studying the great inventors of the genre. Rantala always impressively demonstrates that he is a talented stylist with an unprecedented versatility, one who breaks down styles and reconstitutes them borne by unrivalled technology. There's baroque, ragtime, bebop and swing to be heard on it, Scandinavian melancholia, ballads with a French character, fusion, smooth jazz and even tango.
My History of Jazz
Categorii:
Artist:
Casa de discuri:
Data publicării:
2012
Număr discuri:
1
Suport:
CD
Format audio:
Stereo
Cod de bare:
0614427953124