Composer
Puccini
Puccini made melody central to his operas, giving his characters vocal lines that remain vivid even away from their dramatic setting. Jazz musicians can treat those arias much like standards, but the scores offer rhythmic material too: La fanciulla del West begins with a cakewalk theme that returns throughout the opera.
Albums devoted to Puccini
Every one of these albums is centred on Puccini’s music, with no other classical composer on the record. Most recorded by Riccardo Arrighini (2).
Also appears on
Records where Puccini shares the programme with other composers.
Bizet · Puccini · +4Swingin’ The Opera
Antti Sarpila & Opera Big Band
Giazotto · Giordani · +6Imagine
Charl du Plessis Trio
Verdi · Monteverdi · +5Reimagining Opera (Arr. for Jazz Ensemble)
Dario Savino Doronzo, Pietro Gallo, Michel Godard
Verdi · Offenbach · +8Opera Meets Cuba
Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion
Moniuszko · Puccini · +2Beautiful Jazzy Opera
Leszek Kułakowski
Puccini · Verdi · +1Italian Opera Meets Jazz
Mike del Ferro & Metropole Orkest
Verdi · Wagner · +1Visioni in opera
Riccardo Arrighini
Rossini · Verdi · +5L’opera è jazz
Rosario Di Leo, William Grosso
Tchaikovsky · Schubert · +6Impromptu
Ted Rosenthal Trio
Bizet · Ponchielli · +11Classical in Dixieland (From Bach to Debussy in Old Style Jazz)
Tiger Dixie Band
Richard Strauss · Schubert · +9VSJP: Go Go!
Vienna Symphony Jazz Project