Joe Holt - On the Sunny Side of the Street

[yuckfou312]

love it! and that's awesome how you're a music therapist. i'm studying to become a music therapist

[joeholtsnotes]

@yuckfou312 Cool! It's awesome to make connections that can help and bless people. Thanks!

[inadaptado88]

yeah, yu got the blues nigga!

[AuCafeDeLaMarmotte]

The intro is so perfect !

Congratulation for being such a good musician ! And thank you too piano511 for the notes !

[joeholtsnotes]

@AuCafeDeLaMarmotte Thank you!

[hanojekcim]

hi, you playing is soooo great! i'm a jazz pianist myself as long as i can think :D

how do use the scales? which scales do you use? major and minor (in the minor part of course) or mixo. or anything else?

so keep swinging :)

[joeholtsnotes]

@hanojekcim Thanks! Your assumption is that chord scales (introduced in the be-bop era) underlie all jazz improvisation. I came up in a different "school". Never before in music history (to my understanding) was musical performance/composition conceived using this thinking. Playing music should be a similar process to speaking, or conversing. Use whatever you have available to you in the moment. Seek to grow your vocabulary, but place no agendas on performance. Hope this is helpful.

[hanojekcim]

@joeholtsnotes oh thank you mr :) yes it's really helpful.

thanks allot, greetings from germany

[FortFrozen]

Very Well Done! I nice classic :)

[joeholtsnotes]

@FortFrozen Thank you!

[tub74400]

You are so good! I love all your work.

[joeholtsnotes]

@tub74400 Thank you!!

[piano511]

@arnaudchabo See my channel website for the notes.

[joeholtsnotes]

@piano511 Way cool! Thanks!

[arnaudchabo]

Hi, It's so nice ! I'm a french pianist, and I'm learning this song. I have the score, but I'd like to play your intro, and I can't hear all the notes that you play in the begining (from 0:13 to 0:18). Could you tell me the notes you play (whithout the rythm). It's not easy to learn this music in france, because all the "masters" live in USA.. :-)

I would easilly understand if you couldn't answer me.

Thanks (and sorry for my poor english)

[joeholtsnotes]

@arnaudchabo Thanks for the multitude of compliments! Will send a message.

[matostory]

I can`t speak English very well, but I want to tell you~

I like this song, and your playing is so cool!

More than all, your smile makes me happy~

And I hope watch your next lesson video~ (If you have spare time)

[joeholtsnotes]

@matostory Thank you!

[piano511]

This is great Joe, thanks! Really joyous - never fails to make you smile.

[joeholtsnotes]

@piano511 Smiling is good :)

Thank you!

[KittyJizel]

Oh, so beautiful!!!You're playing so coool!

[joeholtsnotes]

@KittyJizel Thank you!

[mbtfeedback]

Wow, love this song and your arrangement of it. My grandparents had a player piano (with the old paper rolls that you had to pump with your feet) and I would sit there on Sunday afternoons kicking away and watching the keys bounce along. This reminds me of that time. I'm sure the residence appreciate your artistry. Keep it up!

[mbtfeedback]

And I just realized I mis-spelled residents. Oh well. :)

[joeholtsnotes2008]

@mbtfeedback Thanks!

[joeholtsnotes2010]

@Brendan824 Cool! Thanks!!

[Brendan824]

Really great! I love this song, and I love to sing as I play, and listening to and watching you ahs really given me great ideas and inspiration for performing! Thanks a lot! You are great! And I love your solo style!

[obasantanuki]

raining in Japan. i am listening your piano from morning. feeling like that you are the part of a piano, or the piano is the part of you. my heart is always sunny side!

you know? your count is rising up more and more, what is more, Japan area is becoming dark green little by little. it's probably me! ha ha

i saw your another movies,too. i love all!

[joeholtsnotes]

@obasantanuki I truly appreciate your comment. Thank you!

[obasantanuki]

Love your face.! Of course music,too!

I saw this a hundred times,

love from Japan.

[joeholtsnotes]

@obasantanuki Thank you! Sounds like you are very patient and tolerant (a hundred times) :)

[obasantanuki]

@joeholtsnotes I really enjoy it !every time you make me so happy!Never get bored.

[joeholtsnotes]

@obasantanuki And now you have made me happy too!

[dctgfr]

oh yeaaah...i Like this...regarde from italy.

[cresta14]

cool..nice job..!!

[joeholtsnotes2009]

Thank you!

[yukimammy]

GREAT！！

[DonSchnubby]

yeaaah...

[jampro2002]

Love it, shear poetry at the keys. If I was in the nursing home, I would't let you go home! They are very fortunate people to have you.

[joeholtsnotes]

Thank you. Regardless of how high profile a gig I've played, or may play, the most rewarding, and beautiful moments happen in these care settings, particularly when visiting one on one, which, of course, are not recorded (nor are any residents visible on these posted cuts). When a resident "protests" besause it is time for me to leave, I always say with a smile: "I can't come back again unless I leave first". So far no one has abducted me :)

[fingerscarr]

@jampro2002 .... yes he's got the swing so lacking in many versions , and , not overblown at all ! ! !

[idamay1]

What better way to start the day listening to Joe Holt play "Sunny Side Of The St." You are an inspiration....definitely one of God's kids. What a gift He has given you!!!!!....and me!!

[joeholtsnotes]

You have given me a gift also :)

[AnacrozX]

favourited joe. cheers ;)

[mathiasred]

Great improv solo! Your face cracks me up! lol

[joeholtsnotes]

Thanks! Not everyone is so amused :)

[manitoulynda]

Very sunny!

I am always amazed by pianists with long play lists they are able to perform without sheet music propped up in front of them. How do you remember so many melody lines?

Fantastic!

[joeholtsnotes2008]

After 30+ years of (full time) gigging, something ought to stick upstairs :) Thanks!

[idamay1]

I listen to you play this everyday!! Just keeps sounding better and better...It was great from the first time I heard it though!!

[joeholtsnotes]

You are just too nice! - and a real encouragement - thank you!

[dondabull]

you rock!! great piece!

[Jraglon]

nice! i listen to this at least once a day!

[joeholtsnotes]

Encouragement is good - thanks!

[idamay1]

I never tire of listening to you play this tune..It is just great! They played this at my mother's funeral,,not traditional, but what is Heaven but the "Sunny Side Of The Street!" It was also one of her favorite songs

[idamay1]

Another great! One of my favorite songs, and you play it the way I like to hear it! Oh how I ejoyed!!

[wolf175]

Wonderful (both, the music and its use ...)! Wolf/Kyoto

[joeholtsnotes2008]

Thanks - a welcome encouragement, for sure!

[bvelleman]

Hi Joe thanks for your reply.

This might be a silly question...but are you well known as a pianist whereever you live, because I saw some film with other musicians. I only heard you play for the first time a couple of days ago so I'm just curious.

regards,

Bob

[bvelleman]

You don't live in the netherlands by any change so you can teach me the piano like you play it!. It is a joy to listen to you play!!!!

[joeholtsnotes]

No, I think the commute would be prohibitive :) But - I do have an new instructional series that will be listed on my website in the coming days. I'll send you more info. Thanks for the kind comment!

[meiotominteiro]

Yes, improvising at the piano is above all "making connections". Somestimes, I d'ont really know whith who or whith what this "connections" are, but Ithe feeling is always there. And I hear it in your "On the sunny side of street". No pretensionand no ego. Only some of the true feelings and a willing to share. Wonderful, Joe!

[pelzerflash]

Joe!! My name is also Joe, and I play a little bit of piano. Your talent really comes through with your right hand stuff and impeccable sense of rhythm and harmony in the left hand. I love the 7ths in the l.h. Please forgive me if I try to emulate your style. You truly have the gift!

[joeholtsnotes]

Thanks! I'm glad this connects with you. Forgive you? No - making connections and "passing it along" is what it's all about!

[tjjazzpiano]

Yes! I hope the seniors tipped you well. You deserve it.

[joeholtsnotes]

Thanks! In a nursing home environment however, something else may be understood by "tipping" :)

Appreciate the kind remark, and your playing as well.

[henar143]

You are playing it wonderfully.

How to get the medium file of this recording?

[josmex21]

Beautiful¡...Each time that I listen this song, i remember my chilhood.

Simply fantastic¡

[jlin15]

wow, wow.. thats awesome.. my 1st goal for 2008 is to learn to play this piece, i like you play it man... im a classical pianist by training... is there sheet music for this song? or is a lot of it improv?

[joeholtsnotes]

Actually, it's all improv. Most of my training (way back when) is classical, but have learned that my best expressions are "in the moment". As such, I have devoted myself solely to the development of improvisational performance. If you like this kind of playing, I would suggest looking for transcriptions of jazz pianists whose style you like. A goal for me down the road is to publish some of my own transcriptions, but I'm not there yet. Thanks for the nice comment!

[v6pete]

Gorgeous bit of playing Joe! One of the nicest performances I've heard all year.

[joeholtsnotes]

How nice can you be? Thank you! Now if it were early January instead of late December, I might have taken this differently  :)

[smtwtfs53]

Joe, that was beautiful, bless you for what you're doing.

You're one of the best!

[joeholtsnotes]

That's very kind of you. And, yes, I certainly am blessed. Bless you for encouraging others!

[Zachoreeno]

Wow, fantastic job!

[joeholtsnotes]

Thanks!

[bigstriderman]

Where can I find the Joe Holt at Maybeck Recital Hall CD? I would definitely buy that one!

[JC10255]

Brilliant Joe! Brilliant! Post more!!