"It's my way of learning from Bach," says Dan Tepfer of his Goldberg Variations/Variations – an extraordinary project in which the American jazz pianist interpolates his own improvised variations into Bach's original set.
It's not such a far-flung notion. As Tepfer points out, the way Bach strips the Aria's melody but uses its harmony to express new ideas in the variations is akin to contemporary jazz improv. Plus in Bach's day improvising during a performance was par for the course.
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