DIALOGUES TRIO WITH JULIAN SIEGEL: Twinkle Twinkle (Babel Label)

themilkman on Mar 8th 2012 01:14 am

Dialogues Trio with Julian Siegel: Twinkle Twinkle

DIALOGUES TRIO & JULIAN SIEGEL
Twinkle Twinkle
BDV11100
Babel Label 2012
10 Tracks. 62mins47secs

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Jazz musicians, probably more than any others, have hijacked fairly simple popular tunes and turned them into much edgier pieces for decades, from John Coltrane’s inspired reinterpretation of Rogers and Hammerstein’s My Favourite Thing from The Sound Of Music to Louis Armstrong’s  version of Mack The Knife, originally from Bertolt Brecht’s Threepenny Opera. It is also the approach adopted by London-based pianist Bruno Heinen for the first album with his formation, Dialogues Trio. Using the nursery rhyme Twinkle Tinkle Little Star as a starting point for this album, the trio, here accompanied of British reeds player Julian Siegel, freely reinterpret the theme into ten variations which vary quite drastically in scope and perspective. Continue Reading »

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