Cyrus Chestnut – Kaleidoscope (2018) [FLAC 24bit/96kHz]

The jazz piano trio, a specialism with its 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 its parameters without losing sight of its 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.

Tracklist:
01. Golliwog’s Cakewalk
02. Darn That Dream
03. Gymnopedie No. 1
04. Entre cloches
05. Jimbo’s Lullaby
06. Father Time
07. Lord I Want to Be a Christian
08. Son binocle
09. Smoke on the Water
10. Gnossienne No. 2
11. Gymnopedie No. 3
12. Turkish Rondo
13. Prayer for Claudine

Personnel:
Cyrus Chestnut – piano
Eric Wheeler – bass
Chris Beck – drums

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mqs.link_CyrusChestnutKaleidscpe20182496.part2.rar