Posted on 02/14/2020 7:46:21 PM PST by Maceman
Improvisation on original Bach-style tune composed and performed by pianist Oscar Peterson - with Joe Pass (guitar), David Young (bass), Martin Drew (drums)
well don’t forget- this kid is making it up as he goes- he also like goes to say a blues festival, plays with some of the musicians there, learns it in a day, and is playing it and making up blues tunes as he plays- or classical, or jazz or whatever he hears-
Folks like you listed, and the woman i listed, I think practice these pieces they play over and over- I wonder f the kid could play those fairly well if he practiced?
She’s good but she’s no Bugs Bunny.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqGEeymMzQM
Ping
The Great Oscar Peterson. Chic Corea ain’t too shabby either...or is he more of a “keyboardist”?
Yes, I did go to Berklee - graduated magna cum laude in fact. I came out as a pretty decent guitar player, but nowhere near as good as some others there, like Mike Stern and John Scofield.
While there I discovered that I actually had more of a passion for music theory and arranging than guitar playing.
LOL good one
try to track down that live show he did with Joe et al in Tokyo (if memory serves); it goes up on YT, then gets found and deleted then reappears...
I am not a musician. I just don’t like incoherent sound. Forty years as a telecommunications technician made me recognize noise when I hear it. Chookra’s rapid notes become a cacophony of noise.
now see i didn’t find that at all- I hear order in it- I hear the right hand playing a different tune distinctive from the left, and both seem to me to distinctive enough to be beautiful by themselves and also together- Both hands seem OT be making a melody all their own- but somehow to me, it seems to work nicely- But my ear isn’t sophisticated enough to tell if it’s as good as say the ones that others posted to- I mean i think i hear theirs being smoother- and just as rapid- or more so even- but i hear chooka transitioning between hard key pounding and softer pretty smoothly- and in what seems to be an organized but impromptu manner- as he throws different styles together off the top off his head- which i find just amazing- maybe it’s not uncommon- i don’t know- but I haven’t run into a lot of it if it is-
I dunno- i never pursued music past my trumpet playing days in highschool because i just wasn’t good enough to understand music- but i do like to hear the greats- just not sure who’s ‘greater than’ who- when it comes to what i think is great playing- if soemoen could point out why he isn’t top tier, I might be able to hear what they are saying- and learn to recognize why- but again- i don’t catch on quick to stuff like music unfortunately-
She loves ‘the feel of the keys’ under her fingers as she plays.
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