~ Fly Me to the Moon (Piano cover)
Views: 28622 |  |  |  |  | An inspiring pianist. Performance by Frank Merandi.3."Fly Me to the Moon" is a popular standard song written by Bart Howard in 1954. It was titled originally "In Other Words", and was introduced by Felicia Sanders in cabarets. The song became known popula ...More rly as "Fly Me to the Moon" from its first line, and after a few years the publishers changed the title to that officially. [edit]History It was recorded first during 1954 by Kaye Ballard, and vended by Decca Records as catalog number 29114. In 1956 it was recorded by Portia Nelson for her album, Let Me Love You. The same year, Johnny Mathis recorded the song, this was the first time the title "Fly Me to the Moon" appeared on a record label. The original singer of "Fly Me to the Moon", Felicia Sanders, recorded the song during 1959. It was released by Decca Records as catalog number 30937. In late 1961 Nat King Cole recorded the song for the album "Nat King Cole Sings/George Shearing Plays" and was released on Capitol Records, catalog #1675. In 1962, an instrumental version was recorded as "Fly Me to the Moon Bossa Nova" by Joe Harnell, which became the biggest chart hit version of the song, reaching #14 (#4 easy listening) on the US pop singles charts. Jazz drummer Roy Haynes, accompanied by Roland Kirk, Tommy Flanagan on piano and Henry Grimes on bass recorded the song as a brisk instrumental waltz for Haynes' Out of the Afternoon album (Impulse! Records AS-23), on May 16, 1962. An original arrangement (by Ernie Freeman ... |
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~ Bluesette - Piano Solo
Views: 34408 |  |  |  |  | if you want, you can Download this song in "High Audio Quality" just go here: www.amazon.com This song is also available by Apple iTunes, here: ax.itunes.apple.com Thank you all for your support. Blusette an old 6/4 Composer Thielemans started his career ...More as a guitar player. In 1949 he joined a jam session in Paris with Sidney Bechet, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach and others. In 1951 he went on tour with Bobbejaan Schoepen. He moved to the US in 1952 where he was a member of Charlie Parker's All-Stars. He played and recorded with names like Ella Fitzgerald, The George Shearing Quintet, Quincy Jones, Bill Evans, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Astrud Gilberto, Shirley Horn, Elis Regina and others. A jazz standard by Toots Thielemans is "Bluesette" where he used whistling and guitar in unison. Bluesette became a major 1962 worldwide hit for him and this still much beloved and requested piece has been re-recorded by him and commercially released on records/CDs many times over both in various studio versions and live on-stage performances performed in several different countries. His trademark harmonica playing can also be heard in movie scores such as Breakfast at Tiffany's (where his plaintive "Moon River" solo in the opening scene brilliantly establishes the film's mood of romance noir), Midnight Cowboy, Bagdad Café, French Kiss, and in various TV programs like Sesame Street, the Belgian TV series Witse and the Dutch TV series Baantjer. His professional whistling and ... |
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~ How Deep Is The Ocean -- jazz piano solo
Views: 24428 |  |  |  |  | This is waaay looser playing than my other posts. I give the blame/credit to the Korean restaurant we ate at last night. They made my order twice as hot as I had requested. Additional beer was quaffed to dull the burn. I am a total alcohol lightweight. An ...More yway, I came home, immediatly sat down and recorded this last night. It's a good thing I didn't drive if this is an indication of how I was operating heavy machinery! I only did one take, because at the time I thought I sounded *Great* I mean why get hung up on hitting the right notes, right? ...This morning, listening in the light of day, I'm not so sure about this recording. I had to laugh at myself a little bit. I'm going to post it because I had so much fun playing last night. This tune has great changes. I especially like the George Shearing version off of his My Ship album, which is one of the best solo jazz piano albums of all time. Also, I did this without a metronome, which is probably self evident. I hope you like it. |
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~ Blusette - Jazz Trio
Views: 36678 |  |  |  |  | Here again Bluesette but this time with Bass and Drum.If you dont hear the piano "Notes" just go to: vids.myspace.com I hope you enjoy:-) More info: Thielemans started his career as a guitar player. In 1949 he joined a jam session in Paris with Sidney Bec ...More het, Charlie Parker, Miles Davis, Max Roach and others. In 1951 he went on tour with Bobbejaan Schoepen. He moved to the US in 1952 where he was a member of Charlie Parker's All-Stars. He played and recorded with names like Ella Fitzgerald, The George Shearing Quintet, Quincy Jones, Bill Evans, Paul Simon, Billy Joel, Astrud Gilberto, Shirley Horn, Elis Regina and others. A jazz standard by Toots Thielemans is "Bluesette" where he used whistling and guitar in unison. Bluesette became a major 1962 worldwide hit for him and this still much beloved and requested piece has been re-recorded by him and commercially released on records/CDs many times over both in various studio versions and live on-stage performances performed in several different countries. His trademark harmonica playing can also be heard in movie scores such as Breakfast at Tiffany's (where his plaintive "Moon River" solo in the opening scene brilliantly establishes the film's mood of romance noir), Midnight Cowboy, Bagdad Café, French Kiss, and in various TV programs like Sesame Street, the Belgian TV series Witse and the Dutch TV series Baantjer. His professional whistling and harmonica playing can be heard on Old Spice radio and TV commercials that have ... |
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~ Tenderly - jazz piano solo
Views: 188364 |  |  |  |  | Tenderly is a beautiful tune that usually demands thick, lush chords. It's melodic structure and chord voicings give the piece a style and sound that is very much 'of the period' when it was composed in the early 1940's. I tried to inject a little bit of ...More a modern sound in this performance by editing out many of the lush chords and making them a little bit more open and ambiguous. I also tried to use a more angular approach and more silence in the phrasing to play off the lyrical way this piece is usually interpreted. For me it's a trade off. This approach takes away from some of the beauty of the piece, but also adds something a little bit different. Art Tatum and Oscar Peterson do amazing versions of this tune. George Shearing has a great version on his My Ship albulm as well. |
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~ So What (with annotations)
Views: 92013 |  |  |  |  | This is a jazz piano tutorial of the Miles Davis tune "So What" from Kind of Blue. Thanks again YouTube for featuring me! ... Some cool things to do: 1) Over D minor I think mostly D dorian in the left hand. In the right hand however, I think D, Db, and E ...More b Dorian. Using half step chromatically "out" scales is the easiest way to add and resolve tension. You may also want to try the tritone which is Ab Dorian. You can and should take the LH out too occasionally as well. 2) When the bass player is pedaling the I or V you have ANY option of diatonic scales to play since he is implying no scale with his walking. These include (but are not limited to) D harmonic minor, D mel. minor, D dim, D altered, D major, D lydian, and many more! You can also play with half step chromaticism while doing this! 3) It's easy to want to over play in a modal tune where you know the basic scale very well. A way to break up the monotony of single note lines is block chords. I use 4th voicings in the LH w/ octaves, single notes, clusters, and thirds in the RH. It's a hip and updated way to play the George Shearing style over modern tunes. 4) Cluster Vocings: Practice just dropping letting your hand randomly fall on the piano. Remember, for it to sound best all the notes you "fall" in to should relate to the scale you're improvising with. Clare Fischer used to do this, but he often didn't worry about scale relationships until AFTER the fact. 5) If you don't own "Kind of Blue" go buy it! Now... Read ... |
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~ My Foolish Heart - Jazz Piano
Views: 88722 |  |  |  |  | Here my version of this beautiful Tune. The first time I heard this song from Bill Evans was played in "A", so I tried in the same tonality. "My Foolish Heart" is an Academy Award-nominated popular song that was published in 1949. The music was written by ...More Victor Young and the lyrics by Ned Washington. The song was introduced by the singer Martha Mears in the 1949 film of the same name. The song failed to escape critics' general laceration of the film; Time wrote in its review that "nothing offsets the blight of such tear-splashed excesses as the bloop-bleep-bloop of a sentimental ballad on the sound track."[1] Nevertheless, the song was nominated for an Oscar, losing out to "Baby, It's Cold Outside" by Frank Loesser. The song was also a popular success, with two recordings of the song listed among the top 30 on the Billboard charts in 1950. Gordon Jenkins's recording of "My Foolish Heart" reached #22 and Billy Eckstine's version reached #28. Later recordings were made of this standard by numerous artists, including Bill Evans, Joe Williams with George Shearing, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Tom Jones, Carmen McRae, Astrud Gilberto and Mel Tormé. More recently, "My Foolish Heart" has been covered by pianists Liz Story and Keith Jarrett, guitarists John McLaughlin and John Abercrombie, Charlie Haden's Quartet West, singers Kurt Elling, Al Jarreau, Jane Monheit and Ann Hampton Callaway, and a capella quartet The Idea of North. The song also featured in "The Body in the ... |
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~ Dig This Samba
Views: 57355 |  |  |  |  | Visit my website at www.lot2learn.com for midi files, backing tracks and solo transcriptions. About 10 years ago I downloaded a MIDI file called Dig This Samba. I found out that it was recorded to MIDI by a terrific pianist named Robert Aries, who played ...More with John Scofield. The MIDI file had only piano, bass and vibes - no drums. I emailed Robert about this track and he told me he did it for a drummer who was learning the song, hence the lack of a drum track. I tried to learn it at the time but struggled and struggled and finally gave up. I recently stumbled across the MIDI file again and decided, I want to learn this song! The degree of difficulty for me is high because first, Robert plays it at about 225 BPM and second, the fantastic melody is not something that flows under my fingers very easily. I decided to do this song at a more reasonable 170 BPM. I used the original bass backing track from Robert's MIDI file and used a BIAB generated drum track. One correction in the annotation - the change that reads G-7(b5) to D7(b9) is incorrect. The D7 is really a C7(b9). I have not annotated the solo section. Suffice it to say the solo is constructed primarily of chord tones, using approach notes, and trying to bring the melody into the solo at spots for reinforcement. I recently found out who wrote the song and some history behind its author so I'm dedicating this to the late, great Manfredo Fest. Here is a short blurb of info I found about him: Manfredo Fest - Pianist ... |
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~ Peggy Lee - Fever
Views: 378400 |  |  |  |  | PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classics. LINK: tinyurl.com Peggy Lee's alluring tone, distinctive delivery, breadth of m ...More aterial, and ability to write many of her own songs made her one of the most captivating artists of the vocal era, from her breakthrough on the Benny Goodman hit "Why Don't You Do Right" to her many solo successes, singles including "Mañana," "Lover" and "Fever" that showed her bewitching vocal power, a balance between sultry swing and impeccable musicianship. Born Norma Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, she suffered the death of her mother at the age of four and endured a difficult stepmother after her father remarried. Given her sense of swing by listening to Count Basie on the radio, she taught herself to sing and made her radio debut at the age of 14. She made the jump to Fargo (where she was christened Peggy Lee), then to Minneapolis and St. Louis to sing with a regional band. Lee twice journeyed to Hollywood to make her fortune, but returned unsuccessful from both trips. She finally got her big break in 1941, when a vocal group she worked with began appearing at a club in Chicago. While there, she was heard by Benny Goodman, whose regular vocalist Helen Forrest was about to leave his band. Lee recorded with Goodman just a few days later, debuting with the popular "Elmer's Tune" despite a good deal of nerves. That ... |
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~ "Amazing Grace", arr. George Shearing for Pipe Organ
Views: 40586 |  |  |  |  | "Amazing Grace", arr. by the great jazz musician, George Shearing (b. 1919), for Pipe Organ Prelude camcorded live 16 September 2007 Wayne Burcham-Gulotta, Music Director/Organist Church of the Redeemer, Episcopal Morristown, NJ, USA a Redeemer Music Medi ...More a Production, ©2007... |
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~ Peggy Lee - Fever (2)
Views: 36385 |  |  |  |  | PLEASE NOTE: I divided my uploads between multiple channels, Bookmark this link in your browser for instant access to an index with links to all of John1948's oldies classics. LINK: tinyurl.com Peggy Lee's alluring tone, distinctive delivery, breadth of m ...More aterial, and ability to write many of her own songs made her one of the most captivating artists of the vocal era, from her breakthrough on the Benny Goodman hit "Why Don't You Do Right" to her many solo successes, singles including "Mañana," "Lover" and "Fever" that showed her bewitching vocal power, a balance between sultry swing and impeccable musicianship. Born Norma Egstrom in Jamestown, North Dakota, she suffered the death of her mother at the age of four and endured a difficult stepmother after her father remarried. Given her sense of swing by listening to Count Basie on the radio, she taught herself to sing and made her radio debut at the age of 14. She made the jump to Fargo (where she was christened Peggy Lee), then to Minneapolis and St. Louis to sing with a regional band. Lee twice journeyed to Hollywood to make her fortune, but returned unsuccessful from both trips. She finally got her big break in 1941, when a vocal group she worked with began appearing at a club in Chicago. While there, she was heard by Benny Goodman, whose regular vocalist Helen Forrest was about to leave his band. Lee recorded with Goodman just a few days later, debuting with the popular "Elmer's Tune" despite a good deal of nerves. That ... |
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~ Peggy Lee & George Shearing - Beauty and the Beat! (Part 1)
Views: 24741 |  |  |  |  | The first three songs from the album "Beauty and The Beat!" by Peggy Lee and George Shearing. Song 1: Do I Love You (Cole Porter) Song 2: I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City (Rene-Lange) Song 3: If Dreams Come True (Sampson-Goodman-Mills) Recorded live on A ...More pril 28th, 1959 Vocals: Peggy Lee Piano: George Shearing Guitar: Toots Thielemans Vibes: Warren Chaisson Bass: James Bond Drums: Roy Hanes Conga: Armando Peraza Copyright Capitol Jazz |
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~ Lullaby of Birdland - Ella Fitzgerald 4/25/17- 6/15/96
Views: 502047 |  |  |  |  | Music: George Shearing (1919 - ) Lyrics: George David Weiss (1921 - ) Oh, lullaby of birdland that's what I Always hear, when you sigh, Never in my wordland could there be ways to reveal In a phrase how I feel. Have you ever heard two turtle doves Bill an ...More d coo when they love? That's the kind of magic music we make with our lips When we kiss And there's a weepy old willow He really knows how to cry That's how I'd cry in my pillow If you should tell me farewell and goodbye Lullaby of birdland whisper low Kiss me sweet, and we'll go Flying high in birdland, high in the sky up above All because we're in love Lullaby, lullaby, lullaby Have you ever heard two turtle doves Bill and coo when they love? That's the kind of magic music we make with our lips When we kiss And there's a weepy old willow He really knows how to cry That's how I'd cry in my pillow If you should tell me farewell and goodbye Lullaby of birdland whisper low Kiss me sweet, and we'll go Flying high in birdland, high in the sky up above All because we're in love |
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