Album guide
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- Composer
- J.S. Bach
- Released
- 2012
- Label
- John Mackay Trio
- Forces
- Piano, Trio
- Personnel
- John Mackay piano with bass and drums
Most Bach-jazz albums seize on the fugues.
Mackay leaves them alone and gives his trio room to improvise around nine preludes from Book I of The Well-Tempered Clavier.
He also abandons Bach’s chromatic sequence, placing contrasting keys and tempos next to one another instead.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Prelude #1 in CBach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 1 in C major, BWV 846
- Prelude #3 in C#Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 3 in C-sharp major, BWV 848
- Prelude #2 in C MinorBach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 2 in C minor, BWV 847
- Prelude #12 in F MinorBach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 12 in F minor, BWV 857
- Prelude #11 in FBach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 11 in F major, BWV 856
- Prelude #20 in A MinorBach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 20 in A minor, BWV 865
- Prelude #6 in D MinorBach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 6 in D minor, BWV 851
- Prelude #22 in B Flat MinorBach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 22 in B-flat minor, BWV 867
- Prelude # 21 in B FlatBach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Prelude No. 21 in B-flat major, BWV 866