Various Composers - Tales of the Jazz Age (Florian Noack)

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• James Price Johnson - Charleston (arr. Florian Noack)
• Fats Waller, Harry Akst - Dinah (arr. Florian Noack)
• Fats Waller - Squeeze Me (arr. Florian Noack)
• Fats Waller - Bye Bye Baby (arr. Florian Noack)
• Maurice Ravel - L'enfant et les sortilèges, M. 71: Five O'Clock Fox-Trot (arr. H. Gil-Marchex)
• Francis Poulenc - Valse for l'Album des Six, FP 17
• Francis Poulenc - Mouvements perpétuels, FP 14a
• Clément Doucet - Isoldina
• George Gershwin - Slap That Bass (arr. Florian Noack)
• George Gershwin - How Long Has This Been Going On? (arr. Florian Noack)
• George Gershwin - What Causes That? (arr. Florian Noack)
• Mischa Spoliansky - Morphium (arr. Florian Noack)
• Kurt Weill - The Threepenny Opera (Excerpts, arr. Florian Noack)
• Erwin Schulhoff - Suite Dansante en Jazz, WV 98
• Leo Ornstein - Suicide in an Airplane, SO 6

Florian Noack, piano

Date: 2025

Label: La Dolce Volta

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With Tales of the Jazz Age, Florian Noack dives into the heart of the Roaring Twenties to unearth its soundtrack — a mix of cheeky ragtime, biting jazz, and sparks of modernity. Through this collection of rare works and special transcriptions, he gives voice once more to a feverish era in which music, like society itself, was striving to reinvent its forms. From Johnson to Ornstein, with stops along the way for Gershwin, Poulenc, and Schulhoff, this album is a jubilant journey, driven by a performance that is at once stylized, incisive, and free.

Florian Noack embraces the syncopated vitality of stride, the ironic tenderness of Berlin cabaret, and the poetic brilliance of the avant-garde. He makes the piano resound like a multifaceted voice — by turns festive, subversive, elegiac — in a dialogue between surface lightness and underlying gravity. A bold, erudite, and vibrant project that celebrates a chiaroscuro era, poised to dance on the edge of chaos.

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