Playing the classic Disney song with a nod to the great pianist Art Tatum.
Revisiting "Country", a beautiful composition written by Keith Jarrett. It's an AABB form composition. This clip features three separate renditions of the melody chorus.
I remember seeing Keith play this solo piano on SNL in the 70s. It was amazing seeing him play solo piano on prime time commercial television. Country is also one of the tracks on Keith's great recording "My Song" featuring Keith and his European quartet (Jan Garbarek, Palle Danielson and Jon Christenson). It's one of my favorite recordings.
original composition from my book, Vibraphone Virtuosity, series Vol. 1
published by Hal Leonrard
Hi All,
The March edition of Good Vibes is this Sunday, March 6 at the usual time, 8-10 pm eastern.
Playing Hoagy Carmichael's classic composition "Skylark" this morning before an enjoyable day of teaching at Berklee. So many great songs written by Hoagy Carmichael and this is one of them.
Volumes 1 and 2 of the four volume series The Complete Guide To Improvisation are now available via my website, Amazon and the Berklee College of Music bookstore.
For information regarding private lessons either in Boston at Berklee or via Skype or Face Time, please visit www:edsaindon.com
I'm posting this final "round up" of Giant Steps to stress the importance of sculpting each phrase, no matter what the tempo. Ben pointed out the advantage of not playing the tune too fast, so here's a medium tempo where I did my best to shape each phrase, using dynamics, dampening and legato playing.
A dyslexic pianist and a vibraphonist with dementia go to a jam session. The pianist calls " Heaven Steps to Seven". The vibist says, " I don't know that one ". The pianist says, "Don't worry, it's easy to marimba!"
===== OK.. So there aren't a whole lot of good vibes jokes. Feel free to contribute better ones here.
And for further entertainment, check out the piano juggler at
https://www.youtube.com/embed/mFfeU85CozU
I'm Your Pal by Steve Swallow Vibe Solo by David Kovins