Nikolai Kapustin
Blueprint – Music for Jazz Trio
Frank Dupree (piano), Jakob Krupp (bass), Meinhard "Obi" Jenne (drums)
“Kapustin uses jazz as his musical language and then composes quasi-improvisations that sound as though they stemmed right from Oscar Peterson’s or Erroll Garner’s fingers. He is one of the few who were able to have the strictures of composition and liberty of improvisation come together to such an organic whole.” – Frank Dupree
Following his first successful release featuring the Fourth Piano Concerto and the Concerto for Violin, Piano and Strings by the Russian composer Nikolai Kapustin (Capriccio C5437), Frank Dupree presents a selection of the little-known master's works for solo piano, performed as originally written, while bassist Jakob Krupp and drummer Obi Jenne improvise around him. There is surely no better example of jazz poured so expertly into a classical mould.
Tracklist:
Nikolai Kapustin (1937-2020):
1. Sunrise (Daybreak) op. 26 03:11)
2. Konzertstudien op. 40 Nr. 1-8 (Auszug)
2.1. Nr. 1 Präludium: Allegro assai (02:01)
3.2. Nr. 2 Reverie: Moderato (03:37)
4.3. Nr. 7 Intermezzo: Allegretto (03:41)
5.4. Nr. 8 Finale: Prestissimo (02:56)
6. Variationen op. 41 (07:16)
7. Motive force op. 45 (01:48)
8. Big band sounds op. 46 (04:39)
9. Préludes im Jazz-Stil op. 53 Nr. 1-24 (Querschnitt)
9.1. Nr. 1 Presto (01:47)
10.2. Nr. 3 Larghetto (01:52)
11.3. Nr. 4 Allegretto (01:36)
12.4. Nr. 6 Animato (01:50)
13.5. Nr. 7 Moderato (01:36)
14.6. Nr. 8 Allegretto (01:28)
15.7. Nr. 9 Lento (03:27)
16.8. Nr. 11 Andante (02:18)
17.9. Nr. 13 Allegretto (02:42)
18.10. Nr. 15 Moderato (01:53)
19.11. Nr. 19 Vivace (01:21)
20.12. Nr. 23 Moderato (02:08)
21. The end of the rainbow op. 112 (06:08)
22. Paraphrase über Blue Bossa op. 123 (04:07)
23. Paraphrase über Aquarela do Brasil op. 118 (04:41)
Released 2022.