Chucho Valdes – Son No.1
I have never seen a pianist be able to play so fast chops and technique in just one piece of composition. Chucho Valdes is really amazing. He plays the piano like it is a toy! Simply hitting the keys but it still sounds good. A real master indeed [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VCME9tp9Es]
Joe Sample & Randy Crawford – Street Life
Joe sample is one of my favourite pianist of all time. His improvisation is the most melodious I heard so far compared to other pianist. He can really make the piano sings! The video shows one of his live recording session. Drummers, double-bassist, Joe Sample himself playing the piano and Randy Crawford singing Joe’s composition…
Duet of the fastest jazz pianist: Chick Corea & Hiromi Uehara – Spain
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZaOd-fvWU0] I believe there is no need to tell you more about Chick Corea, the fastest jazz pianist known to me. I wonder how his mind think of the notes — 100 notes per second??? I really have no idea! It is simply too fast! Let’s hear something about Hiromi Uehara Hiromi Uehara first mesmerized…
Learning blue scales
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FBtGyGe2jbA] It amazed me when I realized the fact that most musician in the US learn blue scale first before major scale. I learn classical piano for 10 years and I never touched or played blue scale ever in my classical lesson. Most guitarist also learn blue scale as the basic. According to www.learnjazzpiano.com, The…
Peace Piece (Bill Evans) – solo jazz piano
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0iZ1j00wSU] I found this great instruction video at youtube. There are commentary on the video screen. website load testing . However, it is very hard to read the commentary while listening and watching Doug McKenzie play the piece. You might want to pause the video from time to time.