Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion - Mozart Meets Cuba (2005)

Artist: Klazz Brothers & Cuba Percussion

Title of Album: Mozart Meets Cuba

Year of Release: 2005

Label: Sony Classical

Quality/Bitrate/Format: lossless / WavPack / CUE + image / EAC / LOG / Covers

Total Time: 01:14:46

Total Size: 416 MB



Latin, swing, salsa, son, jazz, classic- apparently irreconcilable?

The Klazzbrothers navigate around the stylistic border zone - their home ground, with great ease. And yet their jazzy interpretations of classical pieces keep close to the original. Often it is only a matter of small shifts of rhythmic accent and - as if of its own accord - the theme of a sonata is transformed into a bold bossa nova rhythm. Or the original fundamental bass line is retained and expressive rich jazz chords are superimposed. Trademark of their music is however a confrontation of complex forms, structures and harmonies - a further development and creation of new, innovative sounds, preservation of the ‘old’ within the ‘new’.



It is naturally to the credit of the Klazzbrothers that they write their own arrangements for their jazz-hungry interpretations and that they always like to include their own compositions in the programme. After all, complex structures are created in the course of their style of handling musical material, structures which require mastery in the casual, exalted, expressive style of jazz.



The music-making moment is always in the foreground. That is what brings the Klazzbrothers close to other musicians. In joint projects, for example with the Dresden Philharmonic Jazz Orchestra, founded by the Klazz Brother Kilian Forster, where the common features of jazz and classic are extended in symphonic complexity. Or with well-known soloists, such as the Klezmer clarinettist Giora Feidman, King of the Gypsy Violin, Roby Lakatos or the exceptional Czech musician, Iva Bitova.



01 - Guantanameritmo

02 - Salzburger Schafferl

03 - Calypso Facile

04 - Poema con cohiba

05 - Kubanischer Marsch

06 - Afrolero

07 - Don Cajon

08 - Don Muerte

09 - Sonatadur

10 - Wenn Son, Danzon

11 - Reich mir die Hand

12 - Tercero de la Noche

13 - Yo siento mucho

14 - Bomba de la noche

15 - Hasta la vista Mozart

16 - Son de Mozart

17 - Mozartbique

18 - Ham and Figo