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David Shifrin asked the composer to write a "jazz piece" for clarinet and piano, resulting in the idea to notate as exactly as possible a group of quasi-improvisational figures in the idiom of Afro-American music. Central Park Variations is almost two pieces in one--on one hand the structure is based on a traditional twelve-bar blues, but it could also very well be a chaconne in D minor. In Lalo Schifrin's words, the variations ultimately show "that jazz is a very rigorous discipline which allows certain freedom within fixed parameteres, while the so-called "serious" music can also be fun."
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David Shifrin asked me to write a "jazz piece" for clarinet and piano and I was seduced by the thought of trying to notate as exactly as possible a group of quasi-improvisational figures in the idiom of Afro-American music. Central Park Variations is almost two pieces in one since everything is in the ear of the beholder. On one hand the structure is based on a traditional twelve-bar blues. But it could also very well be a chaconne in D minor. Anyway, this experience has only confirmed my suspicion that jazz is a very rigorous discipline which allows certain freedom within fixed parameteres, while the so-called "serious" music can be fun (and games). --Lalo Schifrin
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Recorded by David Shifrin and Andre-Michel Schub, Aleph Records CD 037.
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David Shifrin asked the composer to write a "jazz piece" for clarinet and piano, resulting in the idea to notate as exactly as possible a group of quasi-improvisational figures in the idiom of Afro-American music. Central Park Variations is almost two pieces in one--on one hand the structure is based on a traditional twelve-bar blues, but it could also very well be a chaconne in D minor. In Lalo Schifrin's words, the variations ultimately show "that jazz is a very rigorous discipline which allows certain freedom within fixed parameteres, while the so-called "serious" music can also be fun."
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