Album guide
Jeunehomme - Mozart Piano Concerto No. 9 K-271
Scottish National Jazz Orchestra with Makoto Ozone
- Composer
- Mozart
- Released
- 2015
- Label
- Spartacus Records
- Forces
- Piano, Big band
- Personnel
- Makoto Ozone piano, Tommy Smith flute and tenor saxophone, Calum Gourlay acoustic bass and Alyn Cosker drums, with the Scottish National Jazz Orchestra
Makoto Ozone’s arrangement gives each movement a different jazz language while keeping the concerto’s complete outline.
Ozone is both a classical soloist and a jazz improviser, so he is equally at home with Mozart’s score and leading the band’s improvisations.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- 1st Movement: Allegro SwingPiano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271 ‘Jeunehomme’: I. Allegro
- 2nd Movement: Andantino TangoPiano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271 ‘Jeunehomme’: II. Andantino
- 3rd Movement: Rondo / Presto Be-BopPiano Concerto No. 9 in E-flat major, K. 271 ‘Jeunehomme’: III. Rondo. Presto