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Enrico Pieranunzi Trio & Orchestra: Blues & Bach: The Music Of John Lewis

by Chris May
January 6, 2023

If the work of any jazz composer lends itself to elegant reframing, as opposed to crass sweetening, by a chamber orchestra, it is that of John Lewis, co-founder of the Modern Jazz Quartet. Lewis' ambition, most often metaphorically realised but sometimes literally so, was to achieve a synthesis of blues and Bach. His blends were mostly ...