Album guide
Jazzical®: Perestroika!
- Composers
- Tchaikovsky; Rachmaninoff; Chopin; Shostakovich; Scriabin; Rimsky-Korsakov
- Released
- 2004
- Label
- MCS Records
- Forces
- Piano, Solo
- Personnel
- Joel A. Martin piano
Martin coined “Jazzical” for a practice that joins classical theme-and-variation with jazz improvisation.
When a career-development panel told him that this new music had no future and advised him to remain a classical pianist, he sold his Mason & Hamlin grand to finance the first Jazzical recording himself.
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.
Tracks 3 and 10 both draw on Chopin’s Scherzo No. 1 and repeat the same recording. Tracks 4 and 9 are omitted because their sources have not been identified; the other six tracks have one recording apiece.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Tchai Bazurka Mazurka (D Minor Mazurka)Tchaikovsky: Children’s Album, Op. 39 No. 10, Mazurka in D minor
- The Rach Man (Prelude In G Minor, Op. 22)Rachmaninoff: Prelude in G minor, Op. 23 No. 5
- Ukrainian Coolmas (Scherzo Op 20 No 1 In B Minor)Chopin: Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20
- Shosta WaltzaShostakovich: unidentified waltz
- Scriabin’s ReverieScriabin: Rêverie, Op. 24
- Song Of IndiaRimsky-Korsakov: Sadko, “Song of the Indian Guest”
- Etude In C# Minor, Op. 2, No. 1Scriabin: Étude in C-sharp minor, Op. 2 No. 1
- Prelude In G Minor, No. 22Scriabin: 24 Preludes, Op. 11 No. 22 in G minor
- Preluda Swinga SambaAnonymous: unidentified work
- Real Ukrainian Coolmas (Scherzo Op 20 No 1 In B Minor)Chopin: Scherzo No. 1 in B minor, Op. 20