Album guide
Classical Jazz Project (2021 Mix)
- Released
- 2021
- Label
- Disk Eyes Productions
- Forces
- Piano
- Personnel
- Brian Withycombe keyboards
Brian Withycombe first released Classical Jazz Project in 2004. Seventeen years later, he went back to those ten arrangements and issued this new mix.
The new edition appends “(Jazz)” to every track title, though its premise is already plain. Withycombe keeps the melodies easy to recognise while changing the harmony, rhythm and keyboard colour around them.
Hear both
The classical side contains only the source pieces used on the album, in album order. The jazz side presents the complete album whenever a dependable copy can be embedded.
The listening queues above follow the same order. The classical player omits tracks that are not based on a classical original.
You can hear the album on Spotify below.
Spotify’s player is here for convenience; the full track listing below remains available to everyone.
Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy - (Jazz)Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71, Act II No. 14c — Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy
- Hungarian Dance - (Jazz)Brahms: Hungarian Dance No. 5 in F-sharp minor, WoO 1
- Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring - (Jazz)J.S. Bach: Cantata ‘Herz und Mund und Tat und Leben’, BWV 147: ‘Jesus bleibet meine Freude’
- Minuet in G - (Jazz)Beethoven: Minuet in G major, WoO 10 No. 2
- Nocturne in Eb Major - (Jazz)Chopin: Nocturne in E-flat major, Op. 9 No. 2
- Ode to Joy - (Jazz)Beethoven: Symphony No. 9 in D minor, Op. 125: IV. Finale — ‘Ode to Joy’
- Sonata in C - (Jazz)Mozart: Piano Sonata No. 16 in C major, K. 545 ‘Sonata facile’: I. Allegro
- Swan Lake - (Jazz)Tchaikovsky: Swan Lake, Op. 20, Act II No. 10 — Scène, Moderato
- Two-part Invention - (Jazz)J.S. Bach: Two-Part Invention No. 13 in A minor, BWV 784
- Waltz of the Flowers - (Jazz)Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker, Op. 71 — Waltz of the Flowers