Eldar Recalls Torture from Bach, Flunking Jazz
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Jazz edged out the classical music of his boyhood piano lessons, but Eldar Djangirov couldn’t stay away from Bach.
After releasing his debut CD of jazz standards in 2005, “Eldar,” the 26-year-old Kyrgyzstan native has blazed a trail in the musical world with his dual vocabulary: April brought a jazz trio recording, “Breakthrough,” while the following month came the solo classical effort “Bach/Brahms/Prokofiev.”