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Kurt Rosenwinkel, Jean-Paul Brodbeck – The Chopin Project (2022)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:04:49 minutes | 1,35 GB | Genre: Classical
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Legendary jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel and acclaimed Swiss pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck join forces on ‘The Chopin Project’, a historic collaboration which finds them reinterpreting the music of Fréderic Chopin for jazz quartet. Rosenwinkel and Brodbeck are joined by the brilliant young Swiss bassist Lukas Traxel, and drummer Jorge Rossy, a leading figure in the Spanish and American jazz communities. One might wonder whether Chopin’s elegant romantic-era compositions would be suited to reinterpretation by a modern electric jazz quartet. Brodbeck and company, through 10 riveting performances of original arrangements of classic Preludes, Etudes, Nocturnes and Valses leave no doubt. Romantic rhythms shift into the swagger of swing, angular folk melodies transform into the blues, and the refined elegance of Chopin’s long arcing melody lines are transfigured by the transcendent energy of post-bop. ‘I was so driven by Chopin’s world over the years, first of all to grow as a pianist, then with that background, I began to absorb his aesthetics and approach to phrasing and melodies. I let it speak naturally with my jazz language, and then I started to hear Kurt’s guitar sound in this music that led to those arrangements’, says the author of the arrangements Jean-Paul Brodbeck. The band met for the recording in Zurich in August 2021 and discovered an immediate chemistry and rapport. Brodbeck’s piano outlines the beauty of Chopin’s compositional structures, while Rossy and Traxel provide an energetic textural groove which subtly reframes that beauty into the rhythmic language of jazz. It’s this foundation which allows Rosenwinkel’s ecstatic lead lines to fly over the band, metamorphosing Chopin’s familiar melodies into something profoundly new. ‘The Chopin Project’ demonstrates with deft precision how refreshing it can be when we treat the music of the western classical canon as a living document, and allow ourselves the freedom to reinterpret it with curiosity and open ears.
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Jean Paul Brodbeck – Extra Time (2017)
FLAC (tracks) 24 bit/96 kHz | Time – 01:01:05 minutes | 1,17 GB | Genre: Jazz
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The classically trained pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck has become a creative epicentre of the Swiss jazz scene and is also looked upon beyond the national borders as one of the most significant voices of contemporary jazz. As a member of diverse groups, Brodbeck has over the years developed his own style of piano playing, deeply rooted in jazz tradition, founded in lyrical Romantic elements, characterized by a sensitive spontaneity and enjoying a high recognition value. In 2007 he gained international recognition with his album Song of Tchaikovsky. Following a period of intense work with various international luminaries such as Johannes Enders, Wolfgang Muthspiel, Billy Hart and Andy Scherrer, and eight releases as band leader, Brodbeck, spurred by the desire to play in an intensely cooperative working band, formed in 2015 his Swiss Trio , consisting of himself, the young bass talent Lukas Traxel and rhythm virtuoso Claudio Strüby, who had already been accompanying Brodbeck for ten years, on the drums. Starting with songs from Brodbeck’s pen, the virtuoso musicians celebrate artistic openness in an urgent ensemble performance that extends the art form of the piano trio in a fresh and contemporary fashion. As Florian Keller states in his liner notes: “The three friends distil their musical essences in active engagement with the fundaments of the jazz tradition and thereby go beyond pure traditionalism with the shimmering pop sensibility of the songs. With their modern, fine-tuned trio sound, they amalgamate centrifugal forces of canonical Romanticism and the Groove of 1970s music into a graceful sound that moves elegantly through varied musical sceneries. This trio is a musical organism, defying the gravitational force of the schematic when it roams weightlessly in the wide open spaces of the balladic, only then to sweep nimbly through hard-edged landscapes of Groove with the same serenity”.
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