Cyrus Chestnut - Kaleidoscope (2018)

2018 release. The jazz piano trio, a specialism with it's own lineage and admirers, is currently alive and well thanks to the artists 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 it's parameters without losing sight of it's historic past. For this recording Cyrus has arranged 8 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. 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.



Track List:
01 - Golliwog's Cakewalk (00:05:06)
02 - Darn That Dream (00:05:09)
03 - Gymnopedie No. 1 (00:06:19)
04 - Entre cloches (00:05:48)
05 - Jimbo's Lullaby (00:05:30)
06 - Father Time (00:05:33)
07 - Lord I Want to Be a Christian (00:04:31)
08 - Son binocle (00:04:09)
09 - Smoke on the Water (00:04:38)
10 - Gnossienne No. 1 (00:07:00)
11 - Gymnopedie No. 3 (00:04:11)
12 - Turkish Rondo (00:03:41)
13 - Prayer for Claudine (00:05:12)

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