More cross-cultural encounters:
The great jazz pianist Jason Moran (above right) plays one of the late piano works of Johannes Brahms (1833-1897), the Intermezzo op. 118 no. 2, with his trio, the Bandwagon. Listen to what happens.
The piece as Brahms wrote it:
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