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Composer

Gounod

8albums in the catalogue
1loose cut
2000–2020years covered
11jazz artists

Gounod’s Ave Maria was itself a transformation: he wrote a new melody over Bach’s C major Prelude from The Well-Tempered Clavier. Jazz musicians who take it up are continuing a process already written into the piece, hearing another possibility inside music that was already complete.

Appears on these albums

Records where Gounod shares the programme with other composers.

Appears on these Loose Cuts

1 cut from 1 record – singles, and extracts from records that only sprinkled in a few classical tunes.

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