"Jazzical" Piano Trio

Hello everyone! I come to you with my first piece produced on my new Acer laptop that runs Musescore smoothly! I have taken the opportunity (before I always had a school chromebook so I couldn't do this) to download Cakewalk Sonar DAW which allows me to open all my old .wrk project files from back when I was using Cakewalk Home Studio over a decade ago. So, if you can't tell by the title, this is one of my juvenilia that I dug up from way back when I used to compose into the sequencer. Back from around 2008. I intended it to be a mix of styles between classical and jazz, hence the corny title 🤣. I use blues scales, extended harmony, altered chords and polychords - all in a way that is intended to be "classically jazzy". I hope you enjoy this piano trio and let me know what you think! Thanks for listening!

Jazzical Piano Trio.pdf

Fun rhythms, and I love the motif of the cello. The recording is beautiful and the cello is especially very expressive. Cakewalk though...that's definitely a blast from the past!

Charming ... a pleasure to hear. I love the dialogue among the instruments. The rhythms are captivating and the major theme quite inviting!

Mark

Very creative composition:

Suggestions: Those thirds and those sixths are extremely cumbersome to play in the piano at that tempo, especially meas 23. (The measures before hand are not going to be smooth. Yeah, Liszt did it but not all the time and he was the greatest) Meas 53: You are going to have problems executing that.

My $0.02

This is a fun piece Peter! I love the rhythmic motifs you used, they were very catchy. Some of your piano part (m.10-13), has a bit of a gospel chord comp sound, which I love.

Your treatment of the strings here is very clever and well thought out...your choice in dynamics + with the lines you wrote make this piece sound fuller than just a trio.

Your pizzacato sections rise up out of the first 1-2 measures of piano (excellent use of dynamics). The timbral changes are a nice contrast to the soaring lines you start with. (I am obsessed with the Bb-Bb-A/Ab-F 🤌🏾)

Another wonderful piece!! Thank you for sharing 😁