Jazz Preludes 2 Wolf-Tempered Piano

Similarly to Bach’s cycle ‘The Well-tempered Clavier’ or to Chopin’s ’24 Preludes’, and similarly to his own collection published in 2019, the ‘Wolf-temperiertes Klavier’, P,ter Wolf penned 24 piano pieces again. His ‘Jazz Preludes’ set examples for improvisation and make use of the entire stylistic spectrum 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, of course, the world of ballads (Nostalgia, No. 4 and Question Without Answer, No. 16). The individual movements are no mere style exercises or piano technique exercises but, like Debussy’s preludes, they are expressive character pieces: musical images of a phenomenon, an emotion, a behavior pattern, a personal experience reflected by their titles.