"Hot Sonate - 2ºMov" by Erwin Schulhoff (J.Silguero, sax)

Espectáculo "Bertolt Brecht y la música de entreguerras", Festival Bernaola 2006. Irwin Schulhoff's Hot Sonata for Alto Saxophone and Piano (1928) is his most mature jazz piece. Marked by strong rhythms and a guffawing saxophone that almost sounds improvised, this piece is George Gershwin on absinthe. The saxophone plays a languorous legato as well as a wailing arpeggio in masterful syncopation to the piano riffs. Schulhoff once boasted to his publisher that he was the inventor of "classical jazz." With this piece, he may be the first classical-jazz fusionist, skillfully blending an upbeat expressionist tempo with neo-classical precision.

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• sonate
• erwin
• schulhoff
• silguero
• sax