Jazz Preludes

Similarly to Bach's cycle The Well-tempered Clavier or to Chopin's 24Preludes, and similarly to his own collection published in 2019, theWolf-temperiertes Klavier, Péter Wolf penned 24 piano pieces again. His JazzPreludes set examples for improvisation and make use of the entire stylisticspectrum of jazz, ranging from the gospel (Anthem, No. 7) to blues (Windlass,No. 1), bebop (Crime, No. 11), Latin jazz (Tropical Night, No. 6), and, ofcourse, the world of ballads (Nostalgia, No. 4 and Question Without Answer,No. 16). The individual movements are no mere style exercises or pianotechnique exercises but, like Debussy's preludes, they are expressivecharacter pieces: musical images of a phenomenon, an emotion, a behaviorpattern, a personal experience reflected by their titles.