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Our audio excerpt starts with the entrance of the melody, which is set up on the recording by an extended solo piano introduction. This beautiful 20-measure AB composition is constructed of four-measure phrases that three times move in different ways to an E-flat major 7th in the A section. The B section ends on the major 7th in E major, a pleasant surprise.
This was Jeanfrançois Prins' first CD as a leader. In the liner notes, by fellow-Belgian and musician extraordinaire Toots Thielemans, Toots remarks, "Belgium has always produced its 'quota' of good musicians. The present generation (less than 30 years and sometimes less than 25) is overdoing it. For each instrument, in each discipline, there are reasons to be proud."
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Belgian jazz guitarist Jeanfrançois Prins is a professional musician, arranger, producer, and educator. By the age of nineteen Prins was a band leader and was awarded the "Golden Sax" and First Prize for Instrumental Performance at the Conservatoire Royal de Musique de Bruxelles. He has released six CDs as a leader. His most recent, "El Gaucho," was recorded in NYC and released on Challenge Records in mid-2012. His interviews and performances have been featured on TV around the globe. In 1994 he was an actor/musician in the Oscar-nominated Belgian movie, "Just Friends." Read more...
