I wondered out to see if there's something new. I found this lady pretty nice. Her name is Diana Krall.
At first I was watching a video talking about Oscar Peterson and his life. There she was. She talked a little about him. I couldn't recognize her. But thanks to internet.
A few clicks later, I found her playing Night Train aka Oscar Peterson. Here it is.
She does two tricks of Oscar Peterson. One is the glissando and the other is the riff Oscar did of 4 bars. She traces nicely the way Oscar swings.
Yeah I like that far. Her chords are bit too complicated for me. But she sure has the mind of Jazz.
Who enjoyed this session most? Two of them, of course. Suppose, If you don't know them, that's a boring video that shows two old guys playing. But if you know who they are, you see them conversing all through the session.
Oh, I wish I were there!
During my active jazz age, we did not have internet. So there were very little information on players themselves. Yes, we were able to know how they look by snap shots printed on LP covers, or posters. It's been long time ago. My first live session of jazz was Art Blakey in Tokyo, in 1961 or 62.
There were and still is nice concert hall that has around 2000 sheets. Art Blakey in concert hall? Yes, they were idol for young Japanese of my age at that time. I luckily bought ticket and went there on one of New years days. (We call January 1-5 as "inside of special occasion=Matsu no uchi")
We read discography. We read a little gossip on jazz players here and there. The information was pretty limited. For you Americans, if it is nothing special to hear this duo of Mr. Peterson and Count plays a blues, it cannot be that ordinal for us. Oscar Peterson plays piano with Count Basie! waoh!, hey didyouhear that? They were so different for us. Mr. Peterson plays piano trio. The Count Basie plays Big band. How can those two players get together, don't you think?
I sure appreciate internet.
Otherwise, I would have died without knowing them play together, my, my
It's been a while since I posted here. I've been busy to revise my way to affiliate. It's been time consuming and needed lots of focus than I have expected. During this period, I've been listening jazz through internet radio. I had been listening to jazzradio.com with winamp. Since I love piano jazz, I tuned to the "piano jazz". Yes, they play piano jazz all through the day. Well that's OK, that's why I tuned in with them, right?
But if you say you love piano jazz, you'd like to listen to other instruments every once in a while, don't you? For that I had to click through to reach a page where I select instruments that I wish to listen to. But who knows which instrument you'd like to listen till you actually start listening to it, right?
Then I checked smooth jazz. Well, they are not my jazz. Then finally I got my favorite. "Jazz Wyoming" They mix a couple of other instruments and vocal jazz other than piano during one hour nicely, or should I say it in subtle way. Yes, I am listening them lately. Try them
There are no big band jazz with them. So I wished to listen to Count Basie and started to surfing You Tube. And here they are! "In a mellow tone".
It was 35 years ago. I joined amateur big band that follows Count Basie's footsteps. We had two concert a year and the band tour once a year. The practice session was held in Shibuya. My love Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson, Tomy Flanagan, Hank Jones and never was Count Basie. I have listened to him at State room in Empire State Building once.
He sounded so light. I took him a composer rather than a piano player. I had to change my opinion when I encountered this tune "In a mellow tone". We got complete score of the tune. Those scene that you see starting from 4:30 and on, that get on with one the whole horn section was tough.
There is a solo part in that score that has written down Basie's phrase. I never was able to get the reasoning of each sound. Yet, it swings nicely and sings beautiful. Yeah, that was Count Basie. Those were the good days, my, my. . . . . . .
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