Leszek Możdżer - Impressions on Chopin, Etude op. 25 nº 4 (segments)
From the album "Impression on Chopin" (2010)
Recorded in 1999, Leszek Mozdzer's jazz update of the piano music of Frédéric Chopin offers a diverse assortment of styles ranging from highly ornamented and virtuosic takes in the manner of Art Tatum to more avant-garde explorations of raw piano sonorities, mixed up with deconstructed fragments. This is a bold display of the potential classical music holds for jazz, and the versatility jazz can bring to classical. In the liner notes, however, a defensive note is struck, as if after Tatum, Dave Brubeck, Miles Davis, the Modern Jazz Quartet, and Jacques Loussier had firmly established the propinquity of classical and jazz ideas an apology is still necessary for making such arrangements, especially when the works of Chopinare involved. Yet the results of Impressions on Chopin should convince even the most conservative listener of the adaptability of Chopin's piano music to jazz.
Polish jazz pianist Leszek Mozdzer is improvising on one of Chopin's Mazurkas.