His talent is amazing!
Miles Davis - Stella By Starlight
A classic 1964 Jazz recording from Avery Fisher Hall in NYC.
Miles Davis, trumpet
George Coleman, tenor
Herbie Hancock, piano
Ron Carter, bass
Tony Williams, drums
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A wonderful jazz radio station from San Francisco.
http://kcsm.org/jazz91/listen.php
You will hear a wide variety of modern players and improvisation on this channel - always very authentic.
I hope everyone is listening to more jazz, keep listening and sharing guys!
Listening is one of the most important skills you can develop.
I love it. Iām working on this song. Itās really challenging
Greatā¦ enjoy working on this one Micheal.
I think Stella deserves itās own thread 
thereās so many recordings that are worthy of study!
https://youtu.be/diVp_ygzr4s?t=60
Been trying to ID the two chords running through this one - tricky.
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Really nice groove here Martinā¦ thanks for sharing, Iāve not heard of these guys before and love their styleā¦ particularly the drummer!!
Over the first chord, the melody note is a Db, i usually work out the melody first as it helps rule out some chords.
Then Iām hearing a Gb at the bottom, the chord sounds bright, so maybe a Gb Major chordā¦
GbMaj9: Gb, Bb, Db, F, Ab, (Db) melody
Also adding an additional 9 at the bottom,
Gb, Ab, Bb, Db, F, Ab, (Db) melody
For the 2nd chord Iām thinking some kind of Gb7#5 chordā¦ I hear D natural in the melody, but an octave down from the melody note of the 1st chord.
Again itās a dense voicing with lots of reverb so a little tricky to work out.
Anyone else have any ideas? 
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A great bluesy number from Gene Harris
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Brilliantā¦
Iāve always been amazed by the accuracy of Oscarās 2 handed runs!
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His small written studies for young pianists are really nice too, written with intelligence and talent as a teacher
A nice, although pretty advanced, reharm tutorial from Lot2learn on the Beatlesā Eleanor Rigbyā¦
Yes itās a great resource Marc!
Iāve just uploaded a lesson on Swing Feel check it our here: https://www.pianogroove.com/jazz-piano-lessons/play-swing-rhythm/
It could be nice to ply through the exercises in his book with a swing feelā¦ it would work well on any of the exercises with 8th notes in the right hand - which many of them do.
We all have a lot of practice to swing like Oscar but hopefully one day
Cheers.
Some really nice stuff in there Marcā¦ Iāve always enjoyed Lot2Learnās performance videosā¦ heās a very talented musician!
Some interesting quartal applications in there with his 4th voicings.
7notemode playing an absolutely beautiful arrangement of āI Loves You Porgyā. I wonder what happened to this guy. He hasnāt posted anything on his YouTube channel or his website in a number of years. Itās a shame because he is/was such an enormous talent. This is another one I could just listen to all night.
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Great performance of a lovely tune!
It has a similar tone to the Bill Evans solo piano recording.
I also like his trio version - particularly the improvisation starting at 1:20s.
This would be a great tune to cover.
Yes I would also love to hear more from 7notemode ā¦ he is certainly one of my favourite jazz piano talents on YouTube. Letās hope he continues to post in the future Mark!
I had not heard the Bill Evans recordings. They were quite nice as well! Would be very cool if you could cover this tune in a lesson at some point.
On another note (no pun intended), I did a little digging around and found some pretty exciting software that I had not seen before. Itās called AnthemScore. It generates sheetmusic from an audio file. I downloaded the free trial and tried it on the first 30 seconds of both the 7notemode and Bill Evans solo recordings of Porgy. It actually worked very well! Going to play around with it some more, but it looks very promising.
Yes we will definitely cover that tune.
The AnthemScore software looks very interesting Markā¦ I wasnāt aware that it was possible to convert an audio file into notation.
Please send over one of the output files, or perhaps upload to this threadā¦ Iād be very interested to see the result.
I noticed that the output is in music XML format too, I actually pull these files into Sibelius to make the transcriptions. Ian, one of our students creates the XML file for me using a midi file i send him. I find it fascinating where modern computer technology meets music production and notationā¦ Interesting stuff!
Well I have good news and bad news. The good news is, the AnthemScore software seems to work very well at correctly identifying and printing the notes. That alone will save an enormous amount of time and effort when transcribing an audio file. The bad news is, the sheet music is pretty unconventional and not something you would want to sight read or publish. Iām attaching the PDF files from the 7notemode recording of āI Loves You Porgyā and your performance of āMistyā in the opening of the āMistyā standard tutorial. The forum system wouldnāt let me upload the XML files. I can email them to you if youād like.
Misty Jazz Piano Tutorial Lesson PianoGroove.pdf (36.5 KB)
I Loves You Porgy - modal version ā jazz piano solo.pdf (188.2 KB)
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