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“Jazz Sebastian Bach – chance encounters” (2008) Suite for Flute and Jazz trio

1. Prelude – Allegro
2. First encounter – Presto … with the Duke
3. Second encounter – Siliciano … with Dave Brubeck
4. Third encounter – Presto … with Agatha
5. Fourth encounter –  Adagio… with Michel Legrand
6. Fifth encounter – Allegro … with Chick Corea

  

Jazz Sebastian Bach is a suite of five pieces for flute and a jazz trio based mostly on movements from Bach’s flute sonatas. Each movement features a specific point of view from which Bach’s music is being approached: from Jacques Loussier and Claude Bolling, via Dave Brubeck and Michel Legrand, to Chick Corea and the author’s own attitude. Hence the subtitle of the suite: “Casual Encounters…

“…Geoff Ealesone of the most highly-regarded pianist/composers in the UK, performs as a duo with Andy Findon, “Europe’s most recorded flute player.”
They have adopted this suite and are anxious to premiere it in the UK.
As Geoff wrote: “We both think that it’s a great piece and has a lot of potential.”
“A wonderfully refreshing addition to the flute repertoire, “Jazz Sebastian Bach” is a challenging work to perform convincingly but well worth the effort.
Uri Brener is one of a rare breed of writers who is able to notate convincing “improvised” jazz flute solos.
The five styles of movements give scope for enormous expression from all four performers” (Andy Findon)

 Tereasa Payne

Tereasa Payne

In the US, highly-regarded multi-instrumentalist Tereasa Payne has also adopted our piece. She will be giving its US premier at the National Flute Association convention in Minneapolis, August 11th. Described by flute star Jimmy Walker as “. . . one of the bright new woodwind stars on the planet,” Teresa’s comment  was “I’m looking forward to performing this wonderful piece!”

“This is a delicious work, that I hope someone will publish soon; players will love it, and so will their audiences” (Robert Bigio, “Flutist Quarterly”)

With this level of enthusiasm from professionals, and pre-publication orders coming in from major retailers, Jazz Sebastian Bach looks set to be a solid success in the marketplace.

Whatever it is, this piece is wonderful to listen to. Brener has taken some movements from Bach flute sonatas and jazzed them up in the styles of Duke Ellington, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea and others. It has to be said that bits of the Bach B minor sonata are pretty jazzy to begin with, and I can understand why this was one of Brener’s choices…”

From a review in the Flute Journal, August 8, 2017

 

Sheet music samples:

 

Performances:
29/07/2008, The world premiere (“Tabula Rasa” Jazz Trio and Noam Buchman):
Kfar Blum Festival, Israel (live broadcast Kol Hamusica channel);
08/10/08 Festival Abu Gosh (w Amit Dolberg, piano and Roni Holan, drums);
20/03/10 CD presentation, Hateiva, Jaffa, Israel;
11/02/10 The Jerusalem Center for Near Eastern Studies;
11/11/10 Hateiva, Jaffa, Israel;
19/02/11 The Haifa Chamber Music Society;
24/05/11 Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance “Mostly Bach” series;
10/06/11  Ein Hod Fourth Festival for Music and Art;
07/07/11 Open University, Raanana;
21/11/11 Jerusalem Theater, Henry Crown Hall, “Etnakhta” series
(live broadcast by the Kol Hamusika channel);
17/03/12 Alon Shvut Music Center,”Classics in the Gush” series;
18/10/12 “Diuna” Hall, Ashdod, Israel;
23/05/13 Eshkol Pais Hall, Beit Shemesh, Israel, ”Chamber music in Beit Shemesh” series;
07.03.14 Beit Shapira, Petah-Tikva, Israel;
09/05/13 Staatlichen Antikensammlungen, Munich w Ensemble Clazzic (fragments);
06/08/13 a US premiere Endless Mountains” Festival;
Tioga County Courthouse, Wellsboro, PA, USA;
European premiere: “Tivoli” open stage, Copenhagen, Denmark 16/06/14;
27/06/17 a UK premiere as part of the Guards Music Festival at the Guards Chapel
on Birdcage Walk, London with Rachel Smith as a soloist;
8/11/17 at the National Flute Association Convention – Minneapolis, MN w Tereasa Payne, flute.

Recordings: “Chance Encounters“, The Eighth Note, 2009
  

Publisher: HARMONIA Music, London;
The piece is to be found on the catalogue of the Congress Library.

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