For this the third in the series we move from fiddle and accordion to the piano [Part 1 here and Part 2 here].
This video highlights an amazing performance by Dick Hyman playing a Jelly Roll Morton composition which is very aptly named.
Fingerbreaker
Keep your eyes open and try to follow his fingers.
You couldn’t, could you?
4 comments:
finger breaker indeed!
I see the original is among the links at the end of that clip.
my favourite piano players; in no particular order-
Glenn Gould
Duke Ellington
Nikolai Demidenko
Thelonious Monk
WOW! I thought I was good playing The BumbleBee!
I saw Glenn Gould once before he stopped playing in public. A tremendous experience! It was not velocity, just his feelings about Bach's music which he could transmit to you by touching the notes in a very special way. Really my type of music!
Eyes-boggling, so to speak! Thanks, Calum.
After this I am (almost) sure you will like listening to him and watching one of my favourite pianists performing a jazzy version of Mozart's 'Turkish March': Fazil Say.
Sean
Your link to Fazil Say: AMAZING
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