Jazz & Cocktails
Gernot Wolfgang
About this work:
Published by Doblinger Music Publishers of Vienna, Austria (catalog # 37 213).
Commissioned by the Cambridge Commission for Music from Salem (NY).
Premiered on July 24, 2004 at Hubbard Hall in Cambridge, NY by Ulrike-Anima Mathe - violin, Kari Ravnan - violoncello and Allen Shawn - piano. Recorded by Tereza Stanislav - violin, Cecilia Tsan - violoncello and Robert Edward Thies - piano on Gernot's CD "Common Ground", Albany Records TROY854.
REVIEWS
Glyn Pursglove, Musicweb-International.com
" Jazz & Cocktails is an entertaining musical conversation, the musical equivalent of sophisticated talk over cocktails, with jazz in the background. There are what Shakespeare called "set[s] of wit well played" as ideas are sent backwards and forwards between instruments ... "
Howard Smith, Music & Vision
"The piano trio Jazz & Cocktails is again just as the title suggests; the three 'voices' bring a hubbub of conversation; monologues, two-part or triangular exchanges; some blurred by distance, others partially or fully overheard. They're characterized by their variety - snippets of serious, reflective or light-hearted converse - fundamentally played out in jazz idioms."
Year composed: 2003
Duration: 00:12:00
Ensemble type: Chamber or Jazz Ensemble, Without Voice:Piano Trio
Instrumentation: 1 Piano, 1 Violin, 1 Cello