Donal Fox Live at the Tanglewood Jazz Festival, Seji Ozawa Hall

The Donal Fox Quartet closed out the 2010 Tanglewood Jazz Festival highlighting Donal's latest project "Piazzolla to Bach Project". This program also featured Maya Beiser on cello. Donal talks about performing at Tanglewood, working with Maya Beiser, and his upcoming plans he has for both his quartet and Maya.

Astor Piazzolla's "Libertango" arr, by Donal Fox for jazz quartet

Donal Fox Quartet: Piazzolla To Bach Project with Special Guest Maya Beiser

2010 Tanglewood Jazz Festival

Seji Ozawa Hall, September 5, 2010

Donal Fox Quartet

Donal Fox, piano, composer, arranger

Warren Wolf, vibraphone

John Lockwood, double bass

Dafnis, Prieto, drums/percussion

Review:

Tanglewood Jazz Festival: Something special in the air

By Richard Houdek, Special to the Eagle

Tuesday September 7, 2010

"Fox and his colleagues opened their portion of the evening set with a lovely and respectful treatment of John Dowland's 16th-century lute song, "Flow My Tears" before moving on to the group's posted premiere, a program intriguingly called "From Piazzolla to Bach." Bach had a profound influence on Astor Piazzolla, the Argentine composer known for his tango music, and with the help of Beiser, who lists Piazzolla's music among her musical armor, Fox set out to demonstrate the synergy of the two composers.

Presiding at the Steinway, Fox explored a vigorous performance of Piazzolla's "Libertango" back-to-back with his own persuasive Jazz Suite based on Bach's Partita No. 5 in G, edged with the requisite counterpoint, this from Warren Wolf on vibraphones, John Lockwood, bass and Dafnis Prieto, drums.

Beiser brought her burnished-toned instrument to the cause of Fox' lively and eloquent "Firefly," Piazzolla's sinewy "Milonga del Angel" and a two-part Invention in F of Bach."

Donal Fox is a Steinway Artist

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