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[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Not "jazz" but Martha Argerich playing Prokofiev...Opus 83, Precipitato. The rhythm, that left hand, apparently Prokofiev loved jazz, met Gershwin in Paris...and Martha is phenomenal. With a percussive & precision touch like a classical Hampton Hawes. That good!

http://youtu.be/BeGXLKXZMD0

[Serial_Apologist]

Not "jazz" but Martha Argerich playing Prokofiev...Opus 83, Precipitato. The rhythm, that left hand, apparently Prokofiev loved jazz, met Gershwin in Paris...and Martha is phenomenal. With a percussive & precision touch like a classical Hampton Hawes. That good!
http://youtu.be/BeGXLKXZMD0

Thanks for posting that. Prokofiev composed quite a lot of music that's like that, equally challenging to pianists trained in the "all you have to do is learn your scales" tradition, and I'm hearing his influence in quite a number of the more adventurous among the younger generation. There are recordings of Prokofiev himself performing his own pieces (and of Bartok too, btw). Here he was playing on the kind of piano I guess Stan Tracey talked about when he named one of his own pieces (and an entire album) "Hello Old Adversary".

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-7ErEVtZP98

Skip the preliminary ad, however!

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

Thanks very much for that. There's a "recording" (piano roll) of Debussy on YouTube of himself playing his "Cakewalk" from Children's Hour, and his phrasing is much more "breathing", spaced and syncopated than I expected, surprisingly so.

[Serial_Apologist]

Thanks very much for that. There's a "recording" (piano roll) of Debussy on YouTube of himself playing his "Cakewalk" from Children's Hour, and his phrasing is much more "breathing", spaced and syncopated than I expected, surprisingly so.

One of the first European composers to compose a piece influenced by black American music, though Debussy is not usually cited in that connection: The "Cakewalk" - without its full title today, thankfully! was one of the "Childrens Corner" pieces composed for his daughter Chou-Chou in 1908. Other non-black composers had of course used ready-made themes, of course: Dvorak in his well-known "New World" symphony; Delius in his earlier "Florida Suite" of 1888.

[CGR]

Another Smalls livestream. Music starts 25 minutes in.

[Joseph K]

Joe Henderson - Live in Munich '94

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G3611feQsAY

[CGR]

[Serial_Apologist]

Not a jazz video per se, but yesterday I happened to watch the 1961 British film "Where Has Poor Mickey Gone" on Talking Pictures TV - a treasure trove for postwar London nostalgia freaks - a pretty crappy, hammy movie, but one with an intriguing "You lot asked for that" ending... except for its opening and closing frame: Ottilie Paterson singing some homemade blues with the Barbar band clankingly recognisable behind her, but with Sonny Boy Williamson on harmonica! It leads me to ponder the presumably numerous films of the period with such vignettes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Rv_NovGGmk

http://www.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b6c568375

[BLUESNIK'S REVOX]

"Dr Terror's House of Horrors" (really). Roy Castle, Kenny Lynch and ... the "Tubby Hayes Quintet", this bit's about a voodoo. Kenny singing with ze band, from c.1971 although the line up looks a bit earlier with Jimmy Deucher and Freddie Logan.

http://youtu.be/_AS5Kdy0XxQ

AND ...Phil Seaman from "The Golden Disc" c. mid 1950s...plus Ronnie Ross etc. Phil literally "smoking"!

http://youtu.be/0L3ACAoPA8o

[Joseph K]

Miles Davis - Berlin 1971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsod6BxM0f0

The last really great Miles group IMO. Still has Keith Jarrett and Bartz… plus repertoire from Live-Evil.

[Serial_Apologist]

Miles Davis - Berlin 1971

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wsod6BxM0f0

The last really great Miles group IMO. Still has Keith Jarrett and Bartz… plus repertoire from Live-Evil.

Hadn't occurred to me - reckon I agree with that judgement!

[CGR]

Another Smalls livestream - Steve Nelson Quartet.

[Serial_Apologist]

Gwilym Simcock, showing how good you can sound with top classical technique on a decent joanna, playing one of his tunes, ten years ago - and explaining it all!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQO7cP34NQY

Gwilym got a bit of stick on the old boards, for being treated as the New Boy On The Block at the time, and we haven't said anything much about him since. He does the inside thing on the strings in exactly the way as did John Taylor - well, Henry Cowell originally did in America back in 1914 in a piece of his called "Banshee", actually, but you have to have a piano with a middle pedal to be able to keep your chosen keys away from the strings you want to strum, or you just get a sonic miasma. That said I think he's pretty good - albeit not especially original compared to others who came up at around the same time, but one can understand the good word Chick Corea put in on the Welshman's behind. Anyone who sounds a bit like Chick Corea (or Herbie Hancock, or John Taylor) is a good sub in a world of finite resources. And I like his shirt.

[Jazzrook]

Sam Rivers Trio with Doug Matthews & Anthony Cole in Atlanta, GA, 2002:

https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=YZnpg8H-ens

JR

[gurnemanz]

"Dr Terror's House of Horrors" (really). Roy Castle, Kenny Lynch and ... the "Tubby Hayes Quintet", this bit's about a voodoo. Kenny singing with ze band, from c.1971 although the line up looks a bit earlier with Jimmy Deucher and Freddie Logan.

http://youtu.be/_AS5Kdy0XxQ

Thanks for that link which I have just got around to following up. Coincidentally, I have just put a Tubby Hayes reminiscence on another thread .