Piano Scale System Diagnostic - closed (now piano video clips)

[The Smokester]

All these new albums are costing me a small fortune.

 

[garylkoh]

Isn't this what this hobby is all about?

 

[garylkoh]

For Marcus Roberts on vinyl:

http://www.discogs.com/Marcus-Roberts-The-Truth-Is-Spoken-Here/release/2497451

Thanks, Greg. There was only one copy available, and VG+.

Just bought a Mint copy off eBay.

 

[microstrip]

For a very well balanced piano sound and fantastic peformance go back to this now inexpensive 1974 recording engineered by Tryggvi Tryggvason in the Decca Studio no 3

"Albeniz: Iberia" performed by Alicia de Larrocha. It is one of the recordings that sometimes can make me believe I am facing a piano and a pianist!

Decca 448191-2

 

[Gregadd]

Harry Connick,Jr.

and Ellis Marsalis. Note how they trade off-One carrying the rhythm and the other the melody,

 

[garylkoh]

She is sometimes called La Divina del Piano. Fabulous concert pianist and an incredible improvisor.

and something more conventional.

 

[Gregadd]

"Too sleep per chance to dream"

 

[Jay_S]

This is why I'm on WBF. There was a spirited system diagnostics discussion and one of our best music threads broke out!

 

[garylkoh]

Harry Connick,Jr. and Ellis Marsalis. Note how they trade off-One carrying the rhythm and the other the melody,

Greg! You're costing me!!

It came off this DVD:

http://www.amazon.com/Marsalis-Family-Jazz-Celebration/dp/B00008R9LS

 

[garylkoh]

This is why I'm on WBF. There was a spirited system diagnostics discussion and one of our best music threads broke out!

Get a bunch of passionate piano-music lovers together..... I'm loving it.

 

[Gregadd]

it's only nine o'clock here but...

 

[Gregadd]

One more and I

'll leave you alone.

 

[The Smokester]

A young Murray Perahia playing with the Academy of St. Martins in the Fields (ASMF).

I saw him playing Beet's V with ASMF at Davies Hall in San Francisco. He was also conducting.

Ya gotta buy the cd...This video is compressed so much it masks the nuances.

Is Perahia the best that ever was? Or just the best still living?

 

[Gregadd]

Tonigihts' selection

 

[The Smokester]

A little something to get you goin' in the morning:

One of my all-time favorite anythings.

From the album

 

[Gregadd]

Ramsey Lewis and B

illy Taylor

 

[Gregadd]

A Horce Silver "Song formy Father" by Stanley Jordan

 

[garylkoh]

One more and I

'll leave you alone.

Thanks, Greg. This is a fabulous find!! I just spent the last few days listening/watching all his videos:
http://www.youtube.com/user/7notemode

He's not a performer but a piano teacher, and he has a fabulous "touch". Check out this one too:

 

[Gregadd]

Excellent Gary. Those two videos show two things. You don't have to play fast to produce a good composition and good music can be enjoyed over a Dell studio XPS laptop.

 

[garylkoh]

Yes. Most of these youtube videos can be enjoyed over a laptop or computer speakers, but once you get it up to a "real" system, they sound bad. I don't even want to speculate why!

Some of my favourite piano recordings are on the now defunct Windham Hill records - in particular Songs Without Words:
http://www.amazon.com/Songs-Without...1_115?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1288810527&sr=1-115