Album guide
The Scarlatti Jazz Suite Project
- Released
- 2008
- Label
- Leonellis Music
- Forces
- Piano, Vibraphone, Quartet
- Personnel
- Donal Fox piano, Warren Wolf vibraphone, John Lockwood bass, Terri Lyne Carrington drums
Fox has long described his music as a meeting of Bach, Monk and the blues.
Across the title suite’s eighteen minutes, one Scarlatti theme passes through three-quarter-time swing, fast Baroque unison playing and flashes of funk and rock.
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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 five securely identified classical sources are presented in album order. The classical player omits track 2 because the Scarlatti theme or themes behind Fox’s suite have not been identified.
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Source works
The album’s complete track listing, with each classical source identified and original compositions marked plainly.
- Aria K. 32Scarlatti: Keyboard Sonata in D minor, K. 32, “Aria”
- Scarlatti Jazz SuiteScarlatti: unidentified theme or themes
- PeaceNon-classical source: Horace Silver’s “Peace”
- Variations On A Bach FugueJ.S. Bach: The Well-Tempered Clavier, Book I: Fugue No. 21 in B-flat major, BWV 866
- LibertangoPiazzolla: Libertango
- Mr. SymsNon-classical source: John Coltrane’s “Mr. Syms”
- DavidsbündlerSchumann: Davidsbündlertänze, Op. 6 No. 2, “Innig”
- Variations On A Piazzolla\‘s OblivionPiazzolla: Oblivion