Baerenreiter Verlag

Editors: Uwe-Karsten Gross, Gunther Martin Gottsche
Format: Book
Languages: German, English
Instrumentation: Organ

Jazz, swing, samba, rhumba and more all found their way to the organ long ago. Not only do the melodies, harmonies and rhythms of these styles enrich the organ's concert literature, they can also be meaningfully incorporated in the liturgy.

The series "Jazz Inspirations" for Organ offers a delightful and personal combination of many forms and highly contrasting styles at a moderate level of difficulty. Volume 4 presents a new array of stylistic and thematic focuses: "Funky Praise" and "Ich lobe dich von ganzer Seelen" ("I praise thee with all my soul") can be found alongside a "Little Shepherd's Chachacha" and the familiar carol "Kommet, ihr Hirten". It even contains two compositions from the American organ scene.

• Jazz, swing and much more for the organ
• Authoritative editors and composers
• Pieces of a moderate level of difficulty
• Bilingual Foreword (Ger/Eng)

Contents:

• Preface
• EGATOP, Hommage a Erroll Garner, Art Tatum, Oscar Peterson - Zsolt Gardonyi
• Meditation on the chorale Ach wie fluchtig, ach wie nichtig - Liselotte Kunkel
• Auf meinen lieben Gott - Matthias Nagel
• Quempas-Reagge on Den die Hirten lobeten sehre (Quem pastores laudavere) - Gerhard Luchterhandt
• Easy-Rag on the chorale Du meine Seele s(w)inge - Thomas Riegler
• Gott sei gelobet und gebenedeiet / Herr Jesu Christe, mein getreuer Hirte - Gunther Martin Gottsche
• Herr, deine Gute reicht, so weit - Gunther Martin Gottsche
• Jazz Waltz-Swing on the chorale Herzlich lieb hab ich dich, o Herr - David Christiansen
• Funky Praise on Ich lobe dich von ganzer Seelen etc. - Gerhard Luchterhandt
• In Frieden dein, o Herre mein - Gunther Martin Gottsche
• Samba on the chorale In dir ist Freude - Thomas Riegler
• Wanna love You, my strength - Matthias Nagel
• Jazz-Waltz on the chorale Jesus Christus, unser Heiland, der von uns - Hans Martin Kiefer
• Ostinato - Christopher Lobens
• Little Shepherd's Chachacha on Kommet, ihr Hirten - Gerhard Luchterhandt
• Nun lob, mein Seel, den Herren - Ulrich Nehls
• Rise up, Shepherd, and follow - John A. Behnke
• Jazz-Waltz on the chorale Wer nur den lieben Gott lasst walten etc. - Thomas Riegler
• Samba on the chorale Wohl denen, die da wandeln - Thomas Riegler
• ... wohlauf und s(w)inge schon!' Charleston on Du, meine Seele, singe - Gerhard Luchterhandt
• Biographical Notes