Pierre Cochereau improvising in St Mary’s, San Francisco Part 1

This recording come from an LP on the Klavier Records label KS529, ’Pierre Cochereau at St Mary’s Cathedral’ made in 1974. The LP had 4 tracks on side A by Italian composers of 16-18th centuries Frescobaldi, Gabrieli and Zipoli and whole of side B taken up with Cochereau’s improvisation, which takes the theme from Frescobaldi’s Ricercare, with a little help now and them from the tune ’Picardy’ The impovisation has five movements: Fanfare - Theme stated on full organ. Scherzo - Based on the