Classical music covered by jazz musicians

[Alexander]

The Classical Jazz Quartet, consisting of Stefon Harris, Kenny Barron, Ron Carter and Lewis Nash, did three albums, covering Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninov and Bach.

You beat me to it. These all really nice albums!

[Teasing the Korean]

...Also Paul Desmond doing Purcell on "Skylark."

That predates the disco jazz period by a couple of years.

[White Lightning]

Liebestraum - Liszt

Mendelssohn's Spring Song - Mendelssohn

Brahms...I Think - Brahms (Anyone knows what's the Brahms piece this is taken from?)

[DMP]

Right, Desmond doing Purcell (on CTI) is a totally different bag. Maybe that sentence should have been a separate paragraph. CTI's disco period was a little later, although when they caved they did in a big way.

[brownie]

Brahms...I Think - Brahms (Anyone knows what's the Brahms piece this is taken from?)

Not Brahms! For once, Zoot had it wrong!

Schubert's 'Serenade'

Edited December 18, 2007 by brownie

[B. Goren.]

John Lewis and Hank Jones play Bach (Taken from the well Tempered Clavier).

Bud Powell also plays variation on Bach in one of his BN recordings.

[B. Goren.]

We all forgot the Calssical Jazz Quartet who recorded the music of Bach, Rachmaninof and Tchaikovski.

[Peter Friedman]

Bob Florence Limited Edition plays his arrangement of Claire De Lune by Debussy on his most recent CD titled "Eternal Licks & Grooves" on MAMA.