Tuesday, February 03, 2009

Learning more about music

Keith Jarrett is a crazy guy, he gets on the piano and freshness flows out. He had a fro in the 70s and was jammin on rhodes in weird ways, but mostly he won't touch an electric piano and mostly he's a big fan of Western harmony. He's got a very in-depth communion with harmony and melody going on, most pianists never get that fluent, but he's also not stuck in the mind--he's deep in the flow, no rambling thoughts going on while the music is in motion. Here's Eva Cassidy singing Autumn Leaves, slow and gentle, and now listen to Keith Jarrett Trio play the same song, sped up and swung, with all sorts of harmonic divergences and elaborations.

I want to teach more music. I like teaching music. And I think music is for everybody.

1 Comments:

Blogger Jannie Funster said...

Autumn Leaves is about my all time favorite tune. Freaking heartbreak of beauty that song.

Jannie Bannannie, the "carnation"

Or am I a "re-in" carnation? ;)

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