This is Not Jazz

Well, it's not! But it is jazz-y. "This is Not Jazz" was composed for two clarinetists--Caitlin Beare and Dimitri Ashkenazy. The composer and the aforementioned clarinetists all met at the Talis Festival in 2018.

The piece jostles between several ideas, all with the question in mind of "what makes something groovy?"

Dimitri Ashkenazy, clarinet
Anna Magdalena Kokits, piano