Mr. Bloomberg is a recorder player living in the San Francisco Bay area of California. He approached me to write a piece in the same swinging style as my Jazzy Prelude & Fugue (Moeck Verlag, ZfS803) and “Peanut Butter” Prelude & Fugue (Glen Shannon Music, SMM106), applying modern affect to old-world structure.The Aria and Fugue movements must be played with swing — without it the musicality is lost!

Inspired by the cantatas of Bach and Telemann, the Aria features a repeating ostinato figure i...