CZIFFRA - JAZZ & IMPROVISATION (1978) 1/3 !!!

[Kinjutsuu]

@marcelmombeekpiano

this can't be him. Almost any big classical fan hates jazz, for a lot of good reasons that is!

[twooffour]

@Kinjutsuu

Not sure what you're responding to, but what you just said was complete bullshit.

[TheMarkel1991]

@Kinjutsuu you're wrong. Cziffra was one of the very best improvisers of all time, and even he was a classical pianist.

[abmsghost1]

@marcelmombeekpiano not bul*shit but bull*shit. and a lot of it!!

[Dihelson]

Listen to Art tatum and Oscar Peterson...you´ll like them !

[Dihelson]

He´s Playing Duke Ellington´s Sophiticated lady.

[jkong000]

at around 1:45 theres a bit of jelly roll morton - fingerbreaker i believe

[jarosemann1228]

OH MY GOD

[heifetz14]

art tatum gone modern

[heifetz14]

art tatum on acid

[aardvaark069]

Now that's some tight shit....!!!!

[Euroflounder]

Somebody should have thought to give him some Nancarrow to play.

[serox901]

what is this from? how in the world did you get this? i love cziffra's improvisations so much

[predoje]

At 6:32 its great melody...

[egonsky]

The first 1 is Sophisticated lady?

The second are some variations on some hungarian gypsy melody...Totaly crazy!

This IS NOT JAZZ !These are home impro s filled with the full pannel of czyfras digital capacities.

Unique ! thx for posting...

[LazyBastard69]

@egonsky you may be right but it deffinately sound kinda jazzy at times ;)

[yellingLoL]

@egonsky

the second one he's improvising on is valse triste by vecsey

[egonsky]

omfg 6.05

[KeithWhalen11]

Out of this world given that it is an improvisation. WOW!

[Euroflounder]

Wow, this totally sounds like Nancarrow.

[theonegt]

Is Cziffra using chords to play the fast passages?

[hjiuhfhrehui]

perhaps.. but that guy your talking about could lern a lot more from cziffra if cziffra improvise in classical styl.

[edtskyline]

esto es una mierda, la netaXD

[12rosebud12]

It's crap, I agree, the classics and sheet music was very much up his streak, this here is absolute musical nonsense, objectively speaking and subjectively it makes me angry.

[princeashtonsdad]

his fingers are not bones but steel

[fingerscarr]

@princeashtonsdad too abstract and lacking in flow for me . though no doubt the fingerwork is of a genius it's  a bit mechanical and amelodic , more like an excercise than something for the ear !

[squishym]

This really makes me wonder if Liszt was actually any better than Cziffra.

[afertyus1000]

well i think cziffra was a frustrated composer as he could'nt make a decent melody to save his life

[squishym]

Yeah, Liszt as a composer at least was one of the best. It would be interesting if there were only some sort of recording of Liszt's playing to be able to compare his style to Cziffra's.

[afertyus1000]

it's difficult to speculate on their playing styles,i would've thought them similar,cziffra was hungarian as you know and liszt was influenced by hungarian peasant melodies

[piano12161770]

that lick from 6:06 to 6:12 is insane!!!!!

[stienwayz]

This is incredibly SICK!!!!

8=)

[ReturnOfTheStienway]

goodbye old channel

R.I.P.

[suzettegm]

very versatile pianist (and I love this tie!)

[vova47]

First tune is Duke Ellington´s "Sophisticated lady" or rather Cziffra´s impressions of it, as he doesn´t really adhere to the form of the song.While it is always fascinating to hear this virtuoso I would hesitate to call this jazz but rather improvisation with some jazzy overtones. I don´t know what the second song is except it sounds Viennese,Straussian. Interesting

[anaklasis]

At 0:29 and 0:53 I think it's the Liszt's Valse Impromptu

[RabidCh]

Holy crap!

[cattleman6420012000]

This is amazing. Wow this man was an incredible pianist!!