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Hayden,

As Celia said, this is just “lush and beautiful”! The voicings are so nice. Looking forward to the tutorial. Thanks. :musical_keyboard:

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Wow! Hayden - I can listen to that all night! :blush: and stare at the stars ! :blush: So beautifully played and arranged! Just so many colors and feelings in it ! Agree with Celia and Scott!

So sorry! about All the Way tune - oh dear - it’s funny that I thought we have that !

I am (we are!) so looking forward to Pure Imagination!

Btw hearing about the possibility of future live sessions - that is SUPER Exciting!!!

Hope you are all well! Take care. Thanks very much!

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Hello everybody,

I hope you are all well.

Since Tuomo already did a beautiful arrangement of Naima, I vote for a version now of “Lonnie´s Lament”.

Apart from the original version
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=japCux4wals )
and the McCoy Tyner solo version
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNHMNpQx6Q4 ),
I also like very much this version by french pianist Jean-René Mourot:
( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Y59dvytDZ0 )

Regards,

Bern

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Hello again,

I also would like to vote for “The Peacocks”:
https://youtu.be/PzZAN3mqu9E

https://youtu.be/cPDjojyKCBg

https://youtu.be/mDpN3lHRJ9Y

A vocal version I just discovered:

https://youtu.be/oZwAlXOf01k

Thanks. Stay well all,

Bern.

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Welcome to the community Bern and thanks for these suggestions.

We can certainly cover these tunes. The Evans/Getz version of “The Peacocks” you posted is also a favourite of mine… a beautiful recording :star_struck:

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I’ve just published the “Pure Imagination” tutorial - it was fun arranging this tune.

The melody reminds me of my childhood watching Willy Wonka. It’s quite heavily reharmonised in places but still sounds great to my ears :grin:

@scott1, @celia and @Kristeta - you can find the tutorial in our “Arranging For Solo Piano” course and the direct link to the tutorial is here:

I still need to transcribe the arrangement which I will do asap.

We apply lots of interesting theory in this arrangement, here’s a list of the relevant theory areas we cover:

I also need to make the beginner arrangement of the tune. I find it easier to first do the advanced one first, and then strip it down to simpler voicings and progressions.

Hope you all like the lesson :sunglasses:

Cheers!
Hayden

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Thank you so much Hayden! I can’t wait to get my “fingers” into it!!!

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Thanks, Hayden. Looking forward to working through this!

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Thanks so much Hayden.

A challenging song for us all! :grinning: especially in my case (haha).

Thanks for adding this to what is already a wonderful journey for us all!

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Yay! What a super treat! :blush:
Hayden - Thank You so much! This is going to be an amazing weekend !!! followed by numerous weeks and months of inspired learning!

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I’m new to the community, so apologies if these have been suggested/covered before:

Infant Eyes (Wayne Shorter)
Soul Eyes (Coltrane)
Lullaby (Frank Morgan)

Thanks!

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Hi Greg and welcome to the community area!

Thanks for these suggestions - all great tunes and we can certainly cover them.

If there are any particular versions you like you can post the YouTube/Spotify URLs in the forum and it creates an embed.

Cheers,
Hayden

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Hello all,

I would like to vote for Chick Corea´s “Crystal Silence”.

Thanks and regards,

https://youtu.be/q5JVODHK6AY

https://youtu.be/VnlAPR_ixo4

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I’ve been listening to “The Great American Songbook Collection” By Beegie Adair.

Hoagy Carmichaels, IVY has been jumping out at me whenever it plays.

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Ben,
Thanks for sharing this. I’d never heard this tune before, and it’s beautiful. If you’ve got Corea and Burton together, you can’t go wrong. I’m going to add it to my library.