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Iiro Rantala - My History of Jazz (2012)

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Iiro Rantala - My History of Jazz (2012)

Iiro Rantala - My History of Jazz (2012)
MP3 320 kbps CBR | 60:31 min | 133 MB
Genre: Jazz | Label: ACT Music

Finnish pianist Iiro Rantala offers his personal history of the music that captivated him when he was 13. "My history of jazz" takes us from Johann Sebastian Bach's Goldberg Variations, upon which Rantala threads the album like a string of pearls, to George Gershwin, Kurt Weill, Duke Ellington, Juan Tizol, Thelonious Monk and the Swedish cool jazz saxophonist Lars Gullin, alongside five original Rantala compositions. With "my history of jazz" Rantala places himself at the head of a new pianist generation that liberates itself from the inflated cult of the "all new" and instead returns to build on the old jazz tradition of studying the great inventors of the genre. Rantala always impressively demonstrates that he is a talented stylist with an unprecedented versatility, one who breaks down styles and reconstitutes them borne by unrivalled technology. There's baroque, ragtime, bebop and swing to be heard on it, Scandinavian melancholia, ballads with a French character, fusion, smooth jazz and even tango.

Tracklist:

1. Aria / Goldberg Variation No. I (Johann Sebastian Bach)
2. Liza (George Gershwin)
3. Goldberg Improvisation I (Iiro Rantala)
4. Caravan (Juan Tizol)
5. Eronel (Thelonious Monk)
6. Goldberg Improvisation II (Iiro Rantala)
7. Americans in Paris (Iiro Rantala)
8. Bob Hardy (Iiro Rantala)
9. Goldberg Improvisation III (Iiro Rantala)
10. September Song (Kurt Weill)
11. Danny´s Dream (Lars Gullin)
12. Goldberg Improvisation IV (Iiro Rantala)
13. Smoothie (Iiro Rantala)
14. Goldberg Improvisation V (Iiro Rantala)
15. What Comes Up, Must Come Down (Iiro Rantala)
16. Uplift (Iiro Rantala)
17. Aria (Johann Sebastian Bach)