Acclaimed Swiss pianist Jean-Paul Brodbeck, and legendary jazz guitarist Kurt Rosenwinkel join forces on The Chopin Project, a historic collaboration which finds them reinterpreting the music of Chopin for jazz quartet. Brodbeck and Rosenwinkel are joined by Lukas Traxel on bass, who plays in the Jean-Paul Brodbeck Trio, and Jorge Rossy, a stalwart member of the Spanish and American jazz communities. 

Rossy’s percussion and Traxel’s bass provide an enveloping and energetic textural world for Brodbeck’s piano which outline the beauty of Chopin’s compositional structures, while subtly twisting them into the logic of jazz. Rosenwinkel’s ecstatic lead lines fly over the band, mutating Chopin’s all too familiar melodies into something profoundly new. 

The fearlessness that this quartet’s harmonic and rhythmic inventiveness brings to Chopin’s music traces the connection between Chopin’s virtuosic chromatic improvisation and its inspiration on the ever-evolving language of modern jazz harmony. 

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Kurt Rosenwinkel & Jean-Paul Brodbeck - The Chopin Project

Prélude in E Major (Op. 28, No. 9)

Prélude in A Minor (Op. 28, No. 2)

Nocturne C-Sharp Minor (Op. 27, No. 1)

Prélude in B Minor (Op. 28, No. 6)

Nouvelle Étude in A-Flat Major (No. 2)

Prélude in C Major (Op. 28, No. 1)

Valse In C-Sharp Minor (Op. 64, No. 2)

Raindrop' Prélude in D-Flat Major (Op. 28, No. 15)

Prélude in E-Flat Minor (Op. 28, No. 14)

Étude In E-Flat Minor (Op. 10, No. 6)