Composer: Nikolai Kapustin
Performer: Frank Dupree, Jakob Krupp, Meinhard Jenne
Format: FLAC (tracks)
Label: Capriccio
Catalogue: C5439
Release: 2022
Size: 676 MB
Recovery: +3%
Scan: cover
01. Day-Break, Op. 26 “Sunrise” (Arr. for Jazz Trio)
8 Concert Etudes, Op. 40 (Excerpts Arr. for Jazz Trio)
02. No. 1 in C Major, Prelude. Allegro assai
03. No. 2 in A-Flat Major, Reverie. Moderato
04. No. 7 in D-Flat Major, Intermezzo. Allegretto
05. No. 8 in F Minor, Finale. Prestissimo
06. Variations, Op. 41 (Arr. for Jazz Trio)
07. Motive Force, Op. 45 (Arr. for Jazz Trio)
08. Big Band Sounds, Op. 46 (Arr. for Jazz Trio)
24 Preludes, Op. 53 (Excerpts Arr. for Jazz Trio)
09. No. 1 in C Major, Pres
10. No. 3 in G Major, Larghetto
11. No. 4 in E Minor, Allegretto
12. No. 6 in B Minor, Animato
13. No. 7 in A Major, Moderato
14. No. 8 in F-Sharp Minor, Allegretto
15. No. 9 in E Major, Lento
16. No. 11 in B Major, Andante
17. No. 13 in G-Flat Major, Allegretto
18. No. 15 in D-Flat Major, Moderato
19. No. 19 in E-Flat Major, Vivace
20. No. 23 in F Major, Moderato
21. End of the Rainbow, Op. 112 (Arr. for Jazz Trio)
22. Paraphrase on Blue Bossa, Op. 123 (Arr. for Jazz Trio)
23. Paraphrase on Aquarela do Brasil, Op. 118 (Arr. for Jazz Trio)
Kapustin uses jazz as his musical language and then composes quasi-improvisations that sound as though they stemmed right from Oscar Peterson’s or Erroll Garner’s fingers. He is one of the few who were able to have the strictures of composition and liberty of improvisation come together to such an organic whole.’ – Frank Dupree. Following his first successful release featuring the Fourth Piano Concerto and the Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings by the Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin (Capriccio C5437), Frank Dupree presents a selection of the little-known master‘s works for solo piano, performed as originally written, while bassist Jakob Krupp and drummer Obi Jenne improvise around him. There is surely no better example of jazz poured so expertly into a classical mould.