Review: Jelly Roll Morton, Piano Music "Sistema
Musica" Turin, Italy, June 2002
in Italiano in
English
Trythall,
Scintillating Piano
Jelly Roll Morton, Piano Music
Richard Trythall
1 CD, Musicaimmagine
Richard
Trythall is a pianist (and composer) who is very curious. For
years he has dedicated himself to the study of music by Jelly
Roll Morton, the incomparable pianist, the musician who, at the
beginning of the 20th century, so clearly delineated the rules
of jazz that he could claim to have invented jazz himself. Transcriptions
of Morton's pyrotechnic performances existed but were partially
incorrect. Trythall has patiently re-transcribed each piece, note
by note, rewriting and then recording them. The result is remarkable:
it brings alive the unbridled virtuosity of Jelly Roll Morton,
the nuances of his performance, the wealth of his expression as
performed on a modern, scintillating piano which bursts forth
from the recording energetically.
Nicola Campogrande
"Sistema
Musica", issue IV n.6/2002
cultural magazine published by the City of Turin, Italy
sistemamusica@comune.torino.it
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