Alhambra

John Zorn - Alhambra Love Songs (2009) {Tzadik TZ 7374}
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© 2009 Tzadik | TZ 7373 | Tzadik Archival Series
Jazz / Experimental / Easy Listening / Contemporary Jazz / Piano Trio

In an easy listening mode, Alhambra Love Songs is Zorn’s touching and lyrical ode to the San Francisco/Bay Area and the wonderful artists who have made it their home. Including tributes to artists as diverse as Vince Guaraldi, Clint Eastwood, David Lynch, Mike Patton and Harry Smith, the music is some of the most beautiful and soothing Zorn has ever written.

Album released in Germany performed by Spanish classical guitarist Narciso Yepes (Murcia, 1927-1997), the performer with the 10-string guitar. The album's thematic repertoire offers fragmentary creations corresponding to the also great Spanish guitarist and composer Francisco Tárrega. As stated Yepes, Tárrega used to transcribe musical scores of different versions, with different levels of difficulty to suit the degree of interpretive skill of guitar students. Yepes interprets versions in such cases more complex and difficult to interpret these scores. Such is the case of pieces like the 'Estudio en forma de Minueto', the 'Cartagenera' -only recorded version of this work to date- or 'Sueño'.