Peter Beets - Chopin Meets the BluesChopin melodies used as a basis for jazz improvisation? In the wrong hands, the results could be truly catastrophic. Yet it's a notion with great appeal for celebrated Dutch piano marvel Peter Beets. "Why, melodic embellishment is at the heart of everything that Chopin wrote! enthuses Peter. "In fact, he was composing tunes ideal for bebop, although he couldn't have known it at the time." It's a happy coincidence that the fifth Criss Cross CD under

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Death by Dub draws from the long history of reggae music and sound system culture creating instrumental music that is fully saturated in the idioms of dub music

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starring Val Anderson and John Seeman

8 is a gorgeous work from Brahms' early years

features some of jazz music's biggest names

Feeling that it was time to have a separate project that could reflect a different side of her creative inspirations

Three very different works in which Bach expresses in various ways the emotion that the subject of the prescribed Gospel for the day stirred in him

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