John Lewis: At Home with the Blues
John Lewis’s appearance on Marian McPartland’s Piano Jazz from the first season in 1979 fittingly starts with a wonderful piano blues. I remember being amazed at the Montreux Jazz Festival in the mid ‘70s when Lewis unleashed a soulful set of piano blues. I had always associated him with the Modern Jazz Quartet and jazz interpretations of Bach’s music. But that typecasting came to a quick end that evening.
-Michael Cuscuna
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John And Johann
I remember having to write a short paper on a Bach fugue in college and coming to the realization that a lot of his music sounded more transcribed than composed. He was the original bebopper for my money. Doug Ramsey compares John Lewis’s “Django” to the adagio movement of Bach’s Violin Concerto No. 2 with interesting results. For good measure, he also posts the 1937 jazz version of Bach’s Double Violin Concerto by Django, Stephane Grappelli and Eddie South.
-Michael Cuscuna
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