What Record Are You Listening To Today?

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gR1lxLGf_ms

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=i748KzOZAVE

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fcIZANQ3q9c

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=q1qiu3n_Vag

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=0zBQ52LxWWA

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SiARr9JhLEo

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I love the precision of Hank Jones
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=c3LpzQJ31OQ

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=nnZivsR3LK4

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Thanks for sharing Marc. A fantastic solo piano performance of ā€˜In A Sentimental Moodā€™ at the end of the concert.

Thanks Hayden, found Laura on Spotify as suggested. Nice version, probably late 1940ā€™s/50ā€™s shortly after the film was released. Didnā€™t realise that you are now based in the USA, thought that you were still near me in Nottingham. Where are you based?

Awesome glad you found it Brian!

Yes Iā€™m looking to expand PianoGroove and get more talented jazz piano players teaching through the website. Iā€™ll hopefully have more to announce on this soon.

I will always continue making lessons as I love doing it - particularly the ballads - but i think it would be nice to offer multiple teaching styles. It would be great to offer more tuition on up-tempo tunes and also blues and bossa nova.

Recently Iā€™ve been in Seattle, Washington. Iā€™ve been networking, meeting musicians and getting involved in the jam scene. The jazz scene in general is much bigger over here than in the UK.

Iā€™m not living here permanently and when back in the UK Iā€™m always either in Manchester (where Iā€™m from originally) or Nottingham.

The lesson on ā€˜Lauraā€™ is finishedā€¦ it will be on the website shortly so look out for the email.

Hi Hayden,

Ah youā€™re a Manc ! - I knew it from the accent,nice one - me too.

This Bill Evans recording of Gary McFarlaneā€™s waltz (Garyā€™s Waltz) is one that I never tire of
listening to.

Also, love your Michel Pettruciani recording of Ellingtonā€™s ā€˜In a Sentimental Moodā€™ amazing stuff.

I had the pleasure of seeing Michel at The Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester a few years
before he passed. It was my best ever concert and there were a lot of tears that night.When a guy carried hin onto the stage and then sat him at the piano and then he played - unbelievable night.

All the best

Paul Jarvis

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Great stuff Paulā€¦ nice to know thereā€™s a fellow Mancunian on here :slight_smile:

Beautiful recordā€¦ thanks for sharing. Thereā€™s some really nice lines in his improvisationā€¦ Iā€™ll be listening and transcribing from this. Bill is one of my main inspirations!

Yes itā€™s a wonderful performance. And wow that sounds like an amazing evening watching Pettrucianiā€¦ despite all of his adversities in life he was a truly brilliant musician and performer!

Hereā€™s a duo performance of ā€˜Darn That Dreamā€™ by Jimmy Van Heusen.

Undercurrent is a 1962 album by jazz pianist Bill Evans and jazz guitarist Jim Hall. They would collaborate again in 1966 for the follow-up album Intermodulation.

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Iā€™ve been listening to this for a while too.Love the version of Goodbye Mr Evans.

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=zO4UmbBQTQw

Nice for tea-salons :wink:

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wSZ4l01mD9o

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dIFIdOPVh10

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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=5ag9Cok99ZU

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Some lovely stuff there Marc!

I like his rendition of ā€˜Beautiful Loveā€™:

Iā€™ll create a musician thread for Hank Jones as Iā€™d like to hear more of his music!

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