Two Jazzolettes

Mátyás Seiber · 1929 · Pièce pour deux saxophones, trompette, trombone, piano, basse et batterie.

Context

Written in Frankfurt in 1929 and 1932 for seven instruments, these pieces use jazz effects and rhythms. They are among Seiber's first experiments with twelve-tone technique.

In the genealogy of jazz

This track belongs to Third stream, Jazz in France (interwar years). Among the origins and influences of Third stream: Cool (Birth of the Cool).

By the same artist

• Improvisations for Jazz Band and Orchestra (1959)

Sources

• ipfs.ssi.eecc.de

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