The Finger Breaker (Jelly Roll) played by Stephanie Trick

[John55son]

I've been listening to Jelly Roll Morton since the 1960s and I've never heard anyone do the Finger Breaker with such abandon. Brava!

[evifnoskcaj]

Far too robotic and rushed. All she has to do is tap her foot on 2 and 4 while she plays and she'll have this down pat.

[mandycatsrule]

she's asian, she came to my elementary school, but shes from St. Louis Missouri dummies

[ForzaAquila]

lol this is what morton plays in the legend of 1900 XD

[poes3000]

She got them all right, But no swing in it.

[sidney7z]

I'm in love.

[syrupticious]

I guess she is just full of TRICKS ;p

[DylHsu]

loving the outfit!!!

[svaellmen]

太急躁了 根本就不知道曲子的意义就在那边瞎弹 像在完成一件任务一样~~拜托~~那是享受~~

[MsCaleb79]

She is most likely a japan girl, they allways play the craziest songs....

[Keeper1st]

@MsCaleb79 Uh, no. She's from St Louis, Missouri.

[MsCaleb79]

@Keeper1st maybe her grand father was Jelly roll Morton?

[FBfan47721]

@Keeper1st I wish i could play as well as she can...

[ASirensSoliloquy]

She's using aimbot and wall hacks.

[DylHsu]

@ASirensSoliloquy art tatum has the rcon

[MCCXK120]

Dick Hymen still better by a country mil- listen to the jelly roll morton original.

[liluxiaorealnew]

this song was in legend of 1900!

[MCCXK120]

See Dick Hyman's version- better by a country mile.

[marvinracer88]

@MCCXK120 you gotta be kidding, his "psudo-arrangement" is playing 1320401234040 notes nothing to do with the real piece, there are "arrangements" and things out of context entirely. This is a marvelous performance of THE PIECE. Dick Hyman is a Pro Pianist, but this piece "played" by him has nothing to do with the real piece.

[MrKeys57]

wow! what talent! very good!

[MsDanielian]

Please. tell me where did you get the notes?? I want them, but can't find, please help. send to my mail danielian@bk.ru

[Nosstradamusa]

sheni mona var dgeidan :D

[whatsmylogin]

I hope I won't get struck by lightening if I say that this version is a bit better than JRM's. Her technique is at least at the same level, and she wisely changes it towards the end where he overdoes the glissando thing. This doesn't mean she is necessarily a better pianist than he was. He never played the same piece the same way twice, so you never know what he would have done if he could play it now.

[TalonusX]

Jelly roll would be proud

[CammehYaBams]

i love the rhythms in this piece

[AtlanticAvenueGroup]

Absolutely AMAZING!!!!! Stefanie If you read this you are very talented! I don't think you missed a note, I would Hire you in an Instant lots of clients would melt at the sound of you playing I sure did!!!!!!!!!!! Please let me know if you ever Come To The Washington D.C Area follow my username and add . COM

[NinjaDaddy]

She's Asian

[Keeper1st]

@NinjaDaddy She's American.

[l2chuck]

@Keeper1st

She is Alien D: 

[Schillingsanders]

Dear Stephanie! Would you like to merry me? Andy.

[MrChopiliszt]

fuckin amzing peace of shit

[princecj71]

bless her

[tsmahkri]

bellissima!!!

[hedgehogplayer]

Your piano playing excellence is something to hear and enjoy.

[KingRat355]

Stephanie must be one of the top players in USA. She's 21 here. I always thought she was alot younger because she look like a teenager here.

[TheTommyCiccio]

good song cinè

[Mrphilharmonic]

Pity it's played on such a 'tinny' piano, even though many might argue it lends some 'authenticity'.

Great playing of a REALLY difficult piece. Well done.

[Keeper1st]

That's a 9-foot Yamaha. It's definitely not a tinny piano. The camera only recorded audio at 11 kHz though. That's what makes it sound a bit weak.

[RB1865]

Brilliant, she is absolutely brilliant.

[enzo19812]

ECCELLENTEEEEEEEEEE

[FELO88ROY]

Does anybody knows/have the music sheet of this piece I need it for my examination

[KPO6859]

What a delight! Keep it up!!

[enfield3031]

Superb playing, I have the music for this but I could`nt play it at this tempo: incredible playing.

[Squarerig]

Fingerbreaker?It breaks my heart to hear it played at such speed and to such perfection.She is truly a wonderful pianiste.A joy to listen to and to behold!What a a pleasure.What has Missouri done to earn this?

[hiroshi25894]

Incredible!!!!!!!!!

[BigCoNcH5392]

how old is she???

[Keeper1st]

At the time of this recording, she was 21.

[markmusicman]

You are Incredible !

[DethP1ckle]

Stephanie Trick, please marry me :D

[Factnotfictionpeople]

In my local dialect, we'd call this the dog's bo**ocks - and I defy ANYONE to argue! :-)

[caraphyllis]

This is just great. Better than Dick Hyman's (amazing) version, because her time feel is better. She's got a very solid underlying rhythm, she's not rushing at all, and her sound is very rich and deep. Awesome playing. YOU GO, WOMAN!!!

[noizebeast]

amazing O_O

[wborgstro]

Not possible. She is beyond human. GREAT

[BachScholar]

She is an incredible talent. I love her playing!

[evifnoskcaj]

Incredible!!!

[spocki23]

This girl can really play stride with the feeling of ragtime, which is what Jelly intended.

[Keeper1st]

At the time of this video, she was 21.

[novidad]

oh...

[sinpack]

O M G

[kingkid29]

Wow! Amazing!

[harveyardman]

Wonderful.

[DajaWaja]

Stephanie...BEST Stride pianist nowadays mein!!!!!

[helmut4lyfe]

My dad can stride faster than anybody I've ever seen/met

[neckus22]

Easy. Its nasty ponce Daily Mail reading shit

[spocki23]

It's not how fast it's played. This girl isn't the fastest I've heard ( Excellent. This girl has the feel of ragtime down pat!

[mrzbomb]

She probably takes a lot of glucosamine.

[Loraitia]

Holy Cow!!! I would defintily love to get piano lessons from her! lol

[mathiasfrogg]

Alors là, j'ai un respect immense pour cette demoiselle.

[Bavadona]

da puro terrone...A FACC U CAZZ

[cipumba]

è bravissima!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lynnellsman]

Damn, I wish I could have been there to see it... If I just would have known about it!

[Keeper1st]

Well, this festival happens every November, and Stephanie has become a fixture, so it's likely she'll be there again this year. You have time to plan! She'll probably be playing at the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia too, since she lives in Missouri. That festival happens the first weekend of June.

There's time to plan!

[JamesPriceJohnson]

damn girl! keep on playing!

[woffolo]

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­

[SJEFRH]

i have the sheet music in my account, if u want to check it out lol

[RAINZHOU09]

She did a really good job.

5 stars.

(But I think I can do better)

[gowiemeister]

put up a video rainzhou

[pianomike1]

I guess she played exactly 111'111 notes in those 2+ minutes. GREAAAAT.

[tibe2003]

not bad for her age... really cool

[sjfbklllffg]

"Not bad for her age"? Huh? No actually... good.... VERY good for ANY age! I'd stake my life YOU can't and never will be able to play it - in any fashion!

[stienwayz]

wow. that was so hot!

[vsinnic]

Is very amzing - Bravissimo

[sweetbebina]

Questa è un mostro!!!! FANTASTIC!! FANTASTICAAAAA!!! BRAvisssimaaa!!!mamma mia che pelle d'oca!!!

[m0nkism]

That clown horn at the end is bad ass!

[Keeper1st]

You can actually see the person with the horn honking it if you look up the video called "Brad Kay and Janet Klein, Automobile song". It's a funny song from the earliest days of the automobile too. (There were a lot of songs that suggested that automobiles were terrible, infernal machines; this one suggests that automobile owners were just as bad.)

[shadow306k]

how old is she? that must have took ages!

[Keeper1st]

She's older than I thought. She was born in 1986, so she's 22 now and was 21 at the time of this video.

A bit of news: Stephanie will be performing this weekend in Boswil, Switzerland, at the Stride & Swing Piano Summit. And of course, she'll be at the 2008 West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento next month.

[Xieve0821]

I was at the concert in Boswil and we'll be hearing a lot more from her in the future.

She did wonderfull.

She played along with Jon Weber, Louis Mazetier, Rossano Sportiello, Paolo Alderighi, Olaf Polziehn and Ingmar Heller.

[Huckabeezer]

One of the most astonishing piano performances I've ever heard in 40 years of pursuing this line of music. I must say that even the great Jelly Roll himself would have taken his hat off for this, which is near perfect and played at a faster tempo than Morton's main version. I'm in awe...

[th3mant0th3g0d]

good playing but weres ur jazz feelings cuz right now all im hearing is someone playing some jazz piece really really fast wich doenst sound like jazz all over again

[centralperkam]

that's fucking fantastic!

[escalibur89]

laaaaaaampu e ccebbe quista toccu

[bennyboy606]

better than any chinese person!

[PoisonButterfly1993]

u were beaten by chinese b4? lol

[Luchetafight]

Now this is amazing ^^ Uff...I wanna play like her

[Skygrapped]

Does anybody know where I can the sheet music for this piece for free on the internet?

[Keeper1st]

Having been published in 1938, and thanks to the Bono Bill that froze the passing of anything into the public domain at the year 1923, the sheet music for this is still under copyright, so alas, you're not likely to find it available for free, even though music this old isn't popular enough anymore for anyone to attempt to make money off of it. Sheet music from the '20s and '30s largely must be passed around from person to person. I don't have the music, so can't let you "borrow" it...

[whatsmylogin]

For free is unlikely as Keepr 1st said. But you can get an exact transcription of what Morton played (reproduced fairly closely by this lady) in a book by James Dapogny (the reference is in the wikipedia page for Jelly Roll)

[kingky96]

hi! cousin and to your mom tita Aline, "greetings from philippines" we want you to know that we your family are supportive of your great talent. We hope you come soon!

[boletmarcillagarcia]

FANTASTIC! a very good performance congratulations!

[lazaryjczyk]

Impresive

[padleynj]

Whoa! Another gifted pianist. I wish her all the luck in the world!!!

[alehage]

Lovely pianist, Im Impressed with this difficult number!!

[zzzhacker]

Really, really good!

[tdub1941]

"B R I L L I A N T" I second that!

Knock your socks off!

RagJazzmonkey

Tom Warner

[Damzified]

That was awesome ! I would have liked it even better if it was played a bit slower but it was great nonetheless.

[ragtimemax]

Phenomenal!

[jackjiezhang]

beautiful skills, beautiful girl! watch out folks!

[beni22sof]

very nice. i like your performance, but isn't that too fast? I know that it's a very fast piece, but you can't hear the harmony at that speed. Anyway, I guess you can play it slower if you want to.

[re6356]

I would call her'ElecTrick,' the volts were sure sparking. Excellent rendition.

[victorvalenzuela87]

You have to be under a the efect of somedurg to play like it, Very Impressive !!!! o_O

Thanks for posting that!!!

[Keeper1st]

Well, ragtime music was/is often called "intoxicating"!

[monstaki]

chaplin*

[monstaki]

Interesting getup.. is that a hat on the grand

[Keeper1st]

Yep, that's her bowler.

[monstaki]

That explains the suspenders.. Somehow ragtime always reminds me of fuzzy motion pictures and charlie chaplain

[Keeper1st]

So it should, since that is the time period it came from, though this tune is from quite a bit later -- 1938.

[maddiswhale]

bloody hell!

best performance of this piece on here! [and I've just sat through quite a few!!!]

very impressive! how old is she?

[Keeper1st]

Not sure... 18 or 19 now I think. She was part of the Youth Concert at that festival, but also was listed among "Performers 18-25" which suggests she was 18... but she's been an undergraduate since at least 2006 and is expected to graduate college in 2009. I've never actually asked her age nor recall anyone mentioning it.

[Silfas]

Is she human?

[aleap9000]

WoW °_°

[aaron12345432]

cool

[playgued]

Encore! Incroyable! Young lady you are a miracle and I profoundly hope you never regret it.

[playgued]

Unbelievably fine ragtime/piano playing. UNBELIEVABLE!

[I7emon]

good player but very annoying song

[marvinracer88]

Wanna be my ragtime girlfriend? DAMN! where in hell can I find a girl like this damn! I wish I could play with you a duet somewhen :(

Ragtime 4-ever!

[tdub1941]

Absolutely Amazing. The girl must have a few invisible fingers that make this performance possible!

Thanks for this post! 5 STARS!

RagJazzMonkey

Tom Warner

[idasynco]

Ms. Trick has a bag full of tricks. She is delightful and this was a joy to hear live!

[Keeper1st]

And she needs a web site or something so people can find out where she's performing or how to get recordings!

[idasynco]

Yes, I agree!

[Keeper1st]

Stephanie now has a web site with information about her CDs and when her next performances will be. A link has been added to the description of this video (stephanietrick with a dotcom at the end). She also now has a YouTube account, "stephtrick".

[dpslm]

Wow, that was great!