Tedeschi-Cooper entertain us at Bennetts Lane

On loan from a Gypsy

One of Ian Cooper’s favourite pieces is a tune ’stolen’  by transcribing a live  Hungarian Gypsy band performance.  He enjoyed the irony, but the Gypsies didn’t enjoy the (backhand) compliment apparently, and he was forced to make a quick exit.  Fortunately for us, he managed to finish his transcription first.

Ian Cooper (Violin), and Simon Tedeschi (Piano) are both great entertainers and performers.  The near capacity audience at Bennetts Lane Jazz club are captivated as each piece is accompanied with an amusing or instructive anecdote.  The two clearly enjoy each other’s company, and enjoy playing together, as they banter and play their way through a variety of musical periods and genres, at times mixing up the two.   The Jerome Kern tune ‘All The Things You Are’ gets a ‘Bach-ish fugue treatment’ and Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony, is treated with a rich Latin groove.  All of this is interspersed with virtuoso improvised-classical-jazz solo performances.

And somewhere out there is a band of Gypsies with a high-powered intellectual property lawyer looking for a short, entertaining Australian with a violin tucked under his arm.

Simon’s website

Ian’s website

Beethoven didn't play it like that