Jazz Improvisation: The Art of the Ballad

[Simmons62948]

Kenny G has seen this once

[JazzCapacitor]

Love what Gress has to say about sound. Bloom's cool. Gress and Hersch are Jazz Superheroes! Thanks for posting. Peace.

[pizza351]

hey is that piano out of tune?

[Fips1928]

@pizza351 yeah.. totally...

[idigmusicjohn]

love the sinatra

[icedsauvignon]

Beautiful music - reflective and interesting. Thank you.

[saxflute45]

Thanks a lot for sharing.

[Terkel7]

But... This video is VERY LOOOONG!!!

Why?

[mrpossibilities]

Man, Fred really made it happen on that tune, which is really hard both because of the tempo and because of the configuration. Without a drum, it's really easy to loose sense of time and the solo can very easily wear out of energy and loose "tightness". But he just kept it there, always taking creative and melodic turns. A true master.

[jamssmith]

that piano is a Yamaha U-7 ...well accepted as one of , if not the best , verticals ever manufactured. Inarguably the most precise workmanship... this is not an opinion

[JimmyKissMyAss]

too much talking...sounds like church...who cares.

[bijouxmusic]

Drew Gress gets such a beautiful tone out of the bass!

[williamlarsson]

ooooffff

A little less Kenny G thanks.

Fred and Drew outshine Jane with lightyears!

[kevinm4435]

@williamlarsson i dunno, i think that bloom has a wonderful sound!

[daerp]

Wonderful insight. Phrases like "Emotional Rhythm" are a great way to describe the pace and place of playing a ballad with intensity and sustain. This is an important discussion.

[drmhouse]

I thought Fred sounded GREAT on the crappy piano, it gave it a certain character

[luigiferrarajazz]

GRADE SCUOLA!!!!

[perfectbeat]

Very interesting and entertaining. I enjoyed it, thanks for posting. It was also a surprise to see Fred Hersch playing on (what looked and sounded like) an old upright piano.

[milongaface]

thank you so much for posting this....such generous insights into fertile music minds. all the comments, no matter how seemingly mundane, made me relax, and feel welcome to trust my understanding of jazz...and so made me love it even more.

[keysivory88]

so happy to see that. Look how Fred is making a shit piano sounds beautiful. this is art. Jane amazing as usual.

[PocketGroove82]

Yeah, it would have been nice if, during the 6 minutes of racketeering, resume reading, and name dropping, they had just called in a piano tuner instead! Or better yet, moved the performance to somewhere with a grand piano and enough space to actually have a drummer present.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoyed the discussion and thank you for posting so much interesting content.

[jazzted]

this is great!!!