John Lewis : J. S. Bach, preludes & fugues : Vol.1
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 20 มี.ค. 2014
- John Lewis, piano
Joel Lester, violin
Lois Martin, viola
Howard Collins, guitar
Marc Johnson, bass
1 Prelude No. 1 2:58
2 Fugue No. 1 7:53 jump to : 3:01
3 Prelude No. 2 3:17 jump to : 11:04
4 Fugue No. 2 4:14 jump to : 14:26
5 Prelude No. 6 3:29 jump to : 18:47
6 Fugue No. 6 5:43 jump to : 22:20
7 Prelude No. 7 6:27 jump to : 28:11
8 Fugue No. 7 3:25 jump to : 34:41
9 Prelude No. 21 3:52 jump to : 38:15
10 Fugue No. 21 4:39 jump to : 42:10
11 Prelude No. 22 5:30 jump to : 46:55
12 Fugue No. 22 3:58 jump to : 52:28
Classical and known composition of course, but this is not classical music. This is jazz, or may be better to call it third stream, a cross-over between classical music and jazz. Jazzing the classics is something that has been done many times but it's really amazing how Lewis built his astonishing rendition around, and inside, the Well Tempered Clavier. He subtitled the work « The Bridge Game ». The most disconcerting version I ever heard. Much better than the K. Jarret's ridiculous one using a harpsichord. I don't really care about J. Pareles ( N.Y. Times) sending flowers to Jarret ( the media darling) and trying to destroy Lewis' work. For my own taste, this is a stylish and technical exploit. Just sayin'.
Hamed thank you for posting .john Lewis ,a great man and teacher his score for the film noir ,Odds Against Tomorrow superb ,as his work was
Chris Connor .ill never forget his face when hearing Ornette take a solo st the Lenox School
You're very Welcome Ran, a tremendous honour having a comment from the great Ran Blake, so much appreciated. Who not being "gimmicked" by Ornette..not that much people in the jazz world. So was I when listening to "Evil blues" for the first time. A "common" swing bass line by the great Duvivier, a wonderful classical jazz vocal by Miss Lee but one is stil gimmicked by the thirder piano, since years and years.
Hamed Triqui thank you a lot George ,Jeanne ,memories
Hamed Triqui so nice to hear back from you
@@RanBlakePiano Same thing here, the E-Flat major fugue as a special dedication for you. One is pretty sure old John will agree. The 852 fugue was the first i heard before ordering these stupendous recordings, a radio stream from somewhere that changes everything in my musical perception.
Hamed Triqui thank you so much
when Bach meets jazz, so beautiful
30年前から魅了されています。気持ちが落ち着きます。頭の中を整理整頓できます。
Спасибо Баху. Господи, благослови этого человека и людей его незабывающих.
Anyone who loves music and math would find this delightful.
But of course Jefferson!
A music lover but jazz novice, I'd never heard of John Lewis before reading about him in this morning's Wall Street Journal, as his centennial approaches on May 3. This is wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. How had I missed such a brilliant artist? Thanks so much for posting.
R
This is so good I could weep. It’s like I’m hearing Bach for the first time, and he was already my favorite.
One of the most underrated.Viva John Lewis!
while listening to such beautiful music of JS and reading comments left by such wonderful people who appreciate this genre I am brought to tears with their comments
Harvey Perkoff
Thanks a lot Harvey for your comment. Beauty, wonder and art, for sure you know what you're talking about.
Years ago, when recovering in the hospital from a complicated surgery, I listened to this CD over and over again. The beauty of it helped heal me both body and soul. God bless J.S. Bach, John Lewis and the MJQ.
30年前ぐらいからずっと聴いてます。
4枚共持ってます。
バッハがもしこれを聴く機会があったとしたら、きっとご機嫌で聴いている事でしょう。
本当に素晴らしい。
それしか言葉がない。
Oscar P is technically far superior... and Bill E is more complex. But few, if any, jazz pianists (of which I am aware) can say so much with so little, while evoking such tranquility and bliss. In this sense, John Lewis is in a class of his own.
Imagine my surprise when I realized this was a man I saw in person 1957 when he was with the MJQ. I had not known that he had rendered these Bach pieces with such genius - -I'm sure Bach would have been proud. I mean this is what we want music to be - heavenly and so suave.
Thank you for uploading. My dad used to play this a lot. I consider the second track as one of the most beautiful pieces of music ever played.
This has quickly become one of my favorite listens on the ol' YouToob.
John is John, not Afro-Irano6THaio or italo
A pleurer de joie. MERCI HAMED.
I love John Lewis. One of my favourite pianists and intellectual performers of all times.
The great Marc Johnson on bass! His work with Bill Evans is amazing.
The Turn Out The Stars , final Vanguard session, is a true jewel. Johnson is a Lafaro, Peacock, Gomez mix.
John Lewis always has been one of my all-time favorite musicians. He merged the genius of Bach into his jazz playing and in a sparse simple way, such as his solo albums and all his MJQ solos and arrangements, touched the heart with simplicity and emotion. It's been years since I listened to these "baroque albums". They bring a gorgeously peaceful feeling, a contentment....something we so drastically need in these crazy times. Pure beauty and joy!
Entièrement de votre avis. Quelle joie.
Well said.. and I completely agree!
So great; I have listened to this so many times in the past few years. "This guy absolutely knows what he is doing," said my pianist friend.
Je ne connaissais pas du tout John Lewis, quel bonheur de voir que l'inspiration divine de Bach continue de porter du fruit!!
alors svp ecoutez le Modern Jazz Quartet ( MJQ) Ces 4 musiciens ont enregistre tellement de merveilleux disques qu'il m'est difficile de vous en conseiller un plus que l'autre. Ecoutez-les tous. Et si vous voulez, commencez par " Blues on Bach". Amicalement.
I saw (and heard) the MJQ in Oldham, Lancashire many years ago. I feel sure that J S Bach would have loved to hear them too!
16:30 this is the music of my childhood. Hot summer day, we played footbal at the natural field near Saint-Petersburg. Russia, about 2005 year. I got CD-one)
what's wrong with the people that don't like this: probably young people that had no other music education than pop music.
Question: why is there only pop music on the most radio channels worldwide? The answer is: money.
This John Lewis is great!
I love Bach, but I hate this interpretation.
Thank you so much for this upload, had this Cd as it first came out, after a few years it was stolen from my car. For many years i have been looking for this Cd, you just made my day! :-)
This is a marvelous recording (all four volumes), a fantastic and daring experience. One that only John Lewis could create.
I love this. I find such jazz/classical fusions very intriguing.
Not even close to the fusion between Stephen and Leo Bloom ^^.
Hamed Triqui what do you mean? can you give us examples?
docoftheworld Leopold Bloom is the Stephen Dedalus protagonist/contrast in Ulysses by james Joyce. I came across a joke , comparing the "intriguing" fusion between Jazz and Classical to the one between Bloom and Dedalus.
Hamed Triqui interesting discussion, do you have other examples similar to John Lewis Playing Bach? I love these collections Mr. Triqui
+Fateh Bazerbachi There is "John Lewis: Vol 2 The Bridge Game Based on J.S. Bach's 'The Well-Tempered Clavier' Book 1"..really love that album. It's on the Phillips label; and another, "The Chess Game; Based on J.S. Bach's 'The Goldberg Variations Part 2", with John and Mirjana (his wife) Lewis. Mirjana plays harpsichord. Sorry about the long titles, but that's exactly the way they read on the album covers. I have them on vinyl. They were recorded in the mid-80s..
This album sends me to a happy place! Especially the first fugue!😊
Hamed Triqui There is no comparison between this masterpiece and Jarrett's harpsichord version. John Lewis is a master and innovator. I cannot thank you enough for uploading these volumes as they are so rare.
The REAL innovator was Bach. John Lewis used Bach as a jumping-off place to do his own thing; Keith Jarrett stayed with the original writing; which I prefer to Lewis's versions.
Lewis is fine and I love jazz, but when I listen to Bach on piano Glenn Gould is the man.
I must have heard this 100 times by now. Thanks so much!
Hamed, merci , c'est un cadeau que tu nous as fait là : )
Oxmo qualifie cette musique de "la plus humaine qu'il soit"
c'est beau
Beautiful... Man , John Lewis was a really creative musician. So much richness. Why to play the way everyone already does? Let others reproduce exactly what is there. Traditionalism will always be remembered traditionalism.
Amazing upload Mr. Triqui. Thank you so much!!!!!!!!!!
I absolutely love these. Lewis was brilliant! Thanks for the upload.
Thank you so much for posting these gems. These are my favorite interpretations of these works.
Beautiful balance of Jazz and Classical. Perfection.
Thanks for this precious 56:30 minutes of marvelous music!!!
Sounds just like the great MJQ music i grew up with. Classy, refined, and beautiful.
I just, miraculously it seems, discovered this album on youtube. It is truly terrific! Why is this not available on cd or iTunes---how unfortunate!
Fantastic. How wonderful to listen to. Thankyou.
Thanks for serving humanity with such a brilliant work
Thank you for posting. This album is fabulous, and possibly the best "Third Stream" album ever made - and just a brilliant album, period. Just listen as Lewis takes an un-celebrated and relatively cerebral fugue like the first in C Major, and brings such a striking poignancy to it. A desert island disc. I have the Korean edition of the 4 CD set (the only version now commonly available), with liner notes in Korean and Japanese, and I would love to find the English notes!
Regarding the comparison of the Jarrett version to that of John Lewis, I think both are great. Keith Jarrett is an astonishing master in both the jazz and classical idioms - he just doesn't pursue the blending of them as much as Lewis did. That said, if yore looking for the Third Stream sound from Keith, the contrapuntal improvisation he does on the first track of the Paris Concert, "October 17, 1988", (one of his "jazz albums") is stunning and completely original, and one would have to believe Lewis would have approved.
I’d be immensely grateful if you could tell where the Korean set of 4CD is available, if still is. There’s is another offer in FLAC files from allflac.com/album/324758 but I don’t know how good those files are. And in any case, I’d prefer the CDs. Thanks in advance!
I would also be interested in the Korean set. I have volume 2 on CD and it's in heavy rotation, but would love the other discs.
pls link how to buy this 4 cd set.
Thank you John Lewis
Totally enthralling
What talent!
Thank you so much sharing
This is the jewel of BACH in 20th.
バッハおんがくとの
初めての出逢い、、、
中学生の頃 繰り返し聴いて居りました。
NHK FMのジャズの番組で
今は亡き 本多俊夫さんが
流してくださった
キオクが ございます。
バッハとジャズの得難い
邂逅がそこに有りました。
6:10~9:46 is the best
Absolutely.
Nice
what a discovering!! this is really nice!
Amazing. Thanks for sharing.
nice icon there
Mi pianista preferido. El de todos los tiempos. El mejor. El maestro del MJQ. The master.
It's amazing. That's all a can say about John...
tremendous work
ÉTERNELLEMENT MERCI MERCI MJQ.
I have played the LP of this thin and no longer have a turntable so thank you so much for this!!
Sencillamente hermoso, como solo un gran maestro como John Lewis podia hacerlo. Gracias por bajar estas obras maestras !!!!!!!!
trabalho belissimo. Lindo e elegante. Otima trilha sonora para momentos de paz e recolhimento caseiro
This is wonderful!!
Enormous, superb musicality....
My favorite pianist ever
Wonderful.
Beautiful touch!
Sehr hohe spirituelle musikaliche Begabung trifft die Seele von Bach.
Hoe vaak beluisterd al, die kenmerkende toetsaanslag inspireert mij!
thank you so much for this videos
Awesome ~
Mr John Lewis et Bach m'apporte la SÉRÉNITÉ.
Miracle!
he is great
This is the best crossover event in the history of humanity.
"In the history of humanity" .... isn't that just a tad over the top?
28:11 ... absolutely divine.
great!
masterpiece
Se ami la musica da Bach a ..... Braxton è molto interessante, delicatamente splendida ! Ciao JL.
I agree with your assessment.
Самое крутое переложение ХТК!!!
Great German-Afro-American music.
28 people have no souls. Wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.
All people have souls, even if their opinions differ from your own.
even BacH is waking up in the coffin when he listen to this music
Actually, Bach's no longer in his coffin. He has long since reincarnated.
52:29 sublime
I don't need anything but this
ET VIVE LA LIBÉRTÉ MUSICALE ET LA CRÉATION INFINIE DU CERVEAU HUMAIN...!!! POUR QUOI SERRER LA MUSIQUE DANS LES PARAMÈTRES RIGIDES...???
maybe the masterpieces of bach are the best when they are in the way the bach originally composed. but this rendition is quite new and fresh.
12'13 transition of the gods...you can put it everywhere in fact, in Debussy for example..just analogy ....and John is humming..
Bach was first jazzman in the history
Bach and jazz are only very superficially similar. By no stretch of the imagination could Bach be considered a jazzman. He was a great improviser, but he didn't play jazz.
Hey there. I appreciate the video but I guess it would be wise to change your description... sure, you can say anything you want but I actually came to hear about Lewis from Jarrett. He was full of compliments, and he said such great things about Lewis that he made me want to listen. Jarrett is a also one of the greats, a hard-worker of music, and should be treated with more respect, and consideration. It is not wise to use the right name in the wrong contest
Hey, plz read below, or in the other Lewis' recordings one uploaded. I
gave my opinion about Jarrett playing jazz, one of the greatest. The
above opinion is about the medias choices. Regarding Jarrett's WTC
recording using a harpsichord, still it's ridiculous, nothing to modify in my description then.
For the dislikers, music is a constant exploration, experiment. Please, don't treat it like a dogma. I discovered John Lewis in the late 1950s and was stupefied by his European Windows. Jazz with a symphony, or classical with a jazz seasoning ! Beautiful.
👏🏻
❤️
Do you have idea about classical jazz musician? I just wanna know artist like him who play classical music arranged jazzy. Thanks
Haven't heard this since I was in college.
What year did you go to college?
Late 1980s.
Tell us the story of how you came about finding this album and listening to it :)
Sorry, it's been awhile since I've been to this video. My university had a media library. You could listen to CDs, records. It was a great place. Comfy chairs, wood paneling. I just picked his CD by chance.
Giant.
17 mental ones pushed the button thumbs down. What's the matter with this world we live in?
One of the things that's the matter in this world we live in is that there are people who think that everybody should have the same tastes, likes and dislikes. Like the uploader, who thinks Keith Jarrett's playing is ridiculous, and yourself, who thinks that people who pressed the thumbs down button are "mental".
If everybody's opinions aren't relevant, then nobody's are.
SILLY!
좋다.. 간드러지게 뇌를 자극하네
5:07
Beautiful sound. I love that!
Try Bach stride...
then it wouldn't be Bach
7:43
I have to say that John Lewis' variation of Bach's music is simply put...is an advance of the narrative of Bach.
Not an advance, but good commentary. Good album, although I think one should not use the blue note when improvising to Bach. It just doesn't sound right.
It's impossible to "advance" Bach's music; it's too perfectly structured. Lewis's variations are entertaining but it comes at the cost of many subtleties
@@Blackgeoff1 I did not say to advance Bach’s music, I said advance the narrative of Bach…
Too bad this cannot be found on itunes :(
+clothilde Julien did you try Pandora? That is where I listen to him.
Is there anyone who has sheet music?
I want to play his version of bach but can't find books or information nowhere...
You can find some sheets at the Dave Ratcliffe transcriptions page. Not a lot of them, three or for.
@@hamedtriqui Thank you so much! Have a nice day! :D
@@yej3680 You're very welcome. You too :)
ça fleuri bien , c est nouveau. ..Bach peut s en réjouir. ...
This is what must drive classical musicians crazy when they realize they will never be able to truly improvise like american jazz musicians and that they will never truly be considered musicians in that sense. It is ironic that so many great jazz musicians learned their trade from classical music - their foundation - but were able to move on. Test - Lewis could easily play this in true classical format like most classical musicians - but how many of them could do what he has done. Few and far between is the answer.Ravel may be the exception and the classical musician that did truly influence improvisation and jazz music structure, perhaps because he was alive with the emergence of american jazz music. For those who remember him, think to an accomplished French Classical musician and later great jazz musician Bernard Peiffer who died around 1973 and had played with Dijango Reinhardt who John Lewis idolized and wrote his classic piece called, Dijango for him.
Hey Steven,
I won't argue with you as to who improvises best.
I simply thought that you might be interested in hearing about classical musicians improvising - Bach was famous for improvising complex fugues. Mozart and Beethoven as well were known for competing with contemporaries in improvisation contests (In a particular incidence Beethoven embarrassed the pianist Daniel Steibelt leading him to leave town). Sadly these improvisations were not recorded.
Also - many classical composers derive/d material for their works through improvisation - It makes sense to do so if one is searching for new effects.
About contemporary musicians - It's understandable that many classical musicians would devote their efforts to survive the competitive arena of Classical performance - but that doesn't mean that some of them don't improvise in extraordinary fashion - Denis Matsuev, Gabriela Montero, and Richard Grayson (Albeit Richard is not really a competitive concert player but simply a remarkable improviser) - Are three examples that spring to mind.
Excellent contribution! Has me checking on the names you gave, thanks for that.
It is just a different time period, maybe that's how Bach would play his music like John Lewis if he lived in our time. I think it is not that classical musicians can't improvise it's just a different career path, Lewis is a jazz musician he has nothing to lose to encroach into Classical compositions, it is riskier to improvise for a classical musician rather than to excel in playing classical pieces. The best they can do is to play like Gould releasing self to iterpret a piece as it is your own.
Disgusting. If you cant play it right, you improvise. He did not understand Bach.
@@franziskakre8309 Are you in the position to judge one of the great Jazz Musicians? Looking up your name in connection with music I could not find much of meaning. Therfore you cannot be an internationally reknown artist in the classical world.Judging is a sensitive thing. Often it is derived from arrogance. He might have understood Bach better than you imagine. Quite a number of Jazz musicians (e.g. Oscar Peterson) worked on and with classical themes, disecting them, citing them. What is wrong with that? Classical composers used to steal or cite melodies as well.