In a Jazz Club Courtyard is the second movement from Urban Gardens for piano quartet. This movement is imagined to be “In a jazz club courtyard”, where the piano, in the original version for piano and orchestra, is surrounded mostly by winds, brass and percussions instruments (in this version: the strings). In the main theme there is something resembling a blues-style ballad, but there are other different elements part of the movement, including a variation, where the piano part is in toccata style. The peculiar ability of jazz to devour and transform everything is evoked in the final section: the piano presents some mini quotes of classical repertoire, emphasizing the dialog between the two worlds.