Barron/Mehldau - Billie's Bounce

[ulastein]

Barron fucks, Mehldau sucks

[beaprod]

There's a lot of good "outside" playing in their solos. Also, wow! I've never heard a jazz piano duet so solid and concentrated.

[markmarktarmann]

one of the best , least plonky piano duets i ve heard. listening staying out the way and owning the 88's. i love both their comping styles.

[zzausel]

I am not sensitive enough for Mehldau, so I am happily blown away by Barrons skills and style.

[veeveeyt]

they are both wonderful...and they interact well together to provide a complete piece of art. As the Zen saying goes: "To compare what you like with what you dislike, this is the disease of the mind, you pass over the hidden meaning, peace of mind is needlessly troubled. It is round and perfect like vast space, lacks nothing, never overflows. It is only when you take and reject that you lose the means to know its Suchness." That about sums it up!

[MarkEisenman]

Great players both, the only thing I wished for was a split screen, especially showing the interactive spots, the last 2 or 3 choruses or so...(5:45).

[HendrixcommaMartin]

I think Barron's piano sounds better.

[fuzzyfeet]

Who can say that Mehldau has a "more advanced" sense of harmony? What defines an advanced sense of harmony? Mehldau may play out of the key more often, and use more lines oriented around fourths, but what makes that more advanced except that it's less frequent?

this video is absolutely amazing, and both players are the top of the top!

[spadge1able]

widerness.how do they know where they are.incredible. 

[ReconSphinx]

Did anyone notice Barron plays the same bebop lick in diffrent ways in every sigle chorus? Brilliant use of repetition or just letting the hand play mechanicly?

[Andreeeiiii]

@ReconSphinx

haha, wanted to write the same.

you mean at about 0:31 right?

[ReconSphinx]

@Andreeeiiii

Exactly, and again at 0:42 and so it continues:)

[DangerDancer69]

@ReconSphinx interesting question, i find myself doing the same thing ALL the time, muscle memory. Its useful, when one runs out of ideas, to fall back on.

[manuelmarches]

Forcément magnifique. Obviously magnificent

[Qbafix]

it's boring after 7:05

[bballbrotha6]

i love how they both have their own ways of playing and their own creativity. That makes a true jazz master, understanding your own way of playing, and make it sound genius.

[todomusika]

awesomeness at it's limit!!!

[JHJennings]

I guess they can get more gigs in Italy than here. Neither of these guys is heard enough in the USA (where the music originated!). Aren't they great?

[gigijazzygirl]

Incredible! I could listen to this all day, every day.

[trumpetman]

Baron played the blues... somebody else did not... that will be all folks.

[witnesspodcast]

@trumpetman 

[Rvlouie]

@trumpetman Uh, Mehldau plays mad blues, and he plays the blues all the time.

[trumpetman]

@Rvlouie Sorry, he doesn't have the feel. Sounds like he never heard a blues. Great player, but no blues in the sound. Kenny Barron represents the history in all it's incarnations. Brad just kind of has part of it and seems like he ignored the other stuff. I won't say what other stuff, but important stuff.

[Modes9]

@trumpetman I'll take triadic and quartal superimposition over annoying blues cliches any day, thanks...

[trumpetman]

@Modes9 If you knew what blues was you would have never have made that ignorant statement. I don't want to hear blues cliches either because THAT'S NOT THE BLUES EITHER! Blues is not a scale or a lick, blues is the way you play something. Blues is an INTENTION. McCoy Tyner had a bluesy sound and so did Woody Shaw even though they played very angular lines. John Coltrane played the most progressive stuff you ever heard, but he never left that part of tradition behind. Did trane play cliches??? NO

[SuperSaurel]

mon dieu !!!ce sont des montagnes

[thedeservingmany]

good musicians really know how to listen to each other--you can see that here. what a tremendous duet.

[OliverDuarte88]

jai pas de mots c juste wao !!!

[Villarroelish]

Un duo rare! ces deux pianistes se complémentent , c'est plus que ça, un super duo! Whaouuu!!!

[ukijhu97]

For me bebop can get boring after awhile. Mehldau mixes bebop with contemporary jazz which i think is awsome.

[fluentc]

Yeah Mehldau seemed to me to have a deeper awareness of how to play over the chords, allowing him to be more sponaneous in his solo, and to get more abstract and "far out" while simulataneously remaining deeply entrenched in the harmony. At the same time he starts out in such a beautifully classical bebop sort of way.

[fluentc]

@fluentc One of the best things about this recording I think is that it doesn't have the feel of a cutting contest, it's so much like a conversation between two people, especially when Barron hands over to Mehldau, they play a joint chordal thing for a number of choruses as if Mehldau is taking up Barron's strain of thought, that's the best thing about it for me, the vibe the two create together.

[enzo321]

these guys sound so hip. im just waiting for a walking bass line though! xD

[bigwm]

I love how, no matter where one goes, the other is right there with them! Man I need to work on my blues substitutions!!

[KilroyWasHere11]

These guys are amazing

[aladarmezil]

loving Mehldau, BUT...in this tune Barron kicks ass :)

[altodds]

and now this two is far way out!!!

Love this duo!!!

[TheRipleys]

Ok, in my humble opinion, comparisons of two inimitable and accomplished players like this should never be to conclude who is a "better" piano player. That being said, what makes Mehldau so fun for me to watch is when he finds some simple melodic line and holds to it like he does at 2:30 - 3:00. For me, he has one of the most unique and creative melodic dynamics between left and right hand, and the way he twists those phrases as Barron works his way down. Whoowee, gives a man the chills.

[monkeywithsticks]

yeah agreed that bit is fkin maaadddd

[TheRipleys]

right?ha, you know when he takes his left hand off and starts grooving it's gonna be good -- and that everybody's about to get their ears humped.

[DavidKing1894]

@TheRipleys well said sir. 

[contrarew]

Holy fuck

[Acousticshredder24]

I saw this guy in concert yesterday, and I was blown away!

[Samickboom]

Lol the bold guy looks like a builder

[JLorz84]

I think Barron has the right balance between traditional pianism and modal\modern concepts. Great

[JazzKubko]

Precizna technika , ohnive frazovanie , hra srdcom

Tito dvaja pani vedia co robia

[davizao]

This remember me An Evening Withe Herbie Hancock and Chick Correa.

Just AWESOME!!!!!!!!

[laurens36]

I like the part 2:30 - 3:00 where Barron goes down on the keyboard en Mehldau goes along and comes up with another of his briliant ideas! Top!

[Sandemose]

I care. It does swing. You just dont notice it. Who cares if you do or dont? I dont?

Best, Sandemose

[TheDionysiac]

enthusiast? I believe a more adequate description would be jazz icon.

[joeljjison]

I think you may be missing the point... jazz isn't about stagnation and rigidly sticking to things. Oscar Peterson is influenced by Art Tatum amongst others, but not does not quite play the same. Bill Evans, Keith Jarrett, Chick Corea, Brad Mehldau. I do not say these names to drop names but to illustrate how things have changed over time. Everyone influenced by elsewhere, so rather who cares what it is or isn't.. if you don't like it, fine, but you don't need to diss exciting playing

[cybertooth49]

You are a tool.

[cybertooth49]

You accuse this of not swinging when you upload videos like your Blue Bossa clip?

lol

[globalistbrat]

this is good, good, sh*t---! Mehldau is amazing!

[JazzBrother88]

Those two Italian pianos must be so wonderful to play on... look in the keyboard close-ups how the keys bounce up...

Well, the piano is an Italian invention...

[kebgron]

I've heard only great things about Fazioli. They're supposed to be exclusive, ultra high-quality, and of course prohibitively expensive.

[JazzBrother88]

Well, I tell you: they're more expensive than the Bösendorfer Imperial, the one with 97 keys. And I think they´re the longest pianos available. The F308 is more than 10 feet long.

Just imagine the sound...

[JazzBrother88]

Barron and Mehldau are top-notch players, yet it's a pity neither one is playing a walking bass line: the low notes on those monster pianos would blow everybody's brains...

Another proof of the high quality of the Fazioli: look at 3:30, on Mehldau's close-up, the short run of the hammers under the strings. That accounts for a terrific response on the keyboard.

The Rolls Royce of pianos.

[bygota]

not so great difference, blogdocrato, not so great. in fact they wouldn't make any difference at all...

mehldau is one of a kind.

[floppzy7]

Woooooooooooooow! 4:13

[blogdocrato]

At 4:11 is where Herbie Hancock or a Chick Corea makes a great difference...

[blogdocrato]

Listen for Oscar Peterson and Herbie Hancock Duo on this same piece here at youtube...

[Thetaquo]

Proof that Jazz was a gift received directly from God. It is a miniature model of the Universe in that underneath the beauty created seemingly by randomness and chaos, there is a method to the madness.

[JazzmanJibilla]

Weee....that's an expensive pile of pianos on the stage there, with a couple of monster players.

I've had Billie's Bounce earworming me for about a week now, and after to listening to this I can look forward to at least another week.

[Santiagojimenezb]

swingggggg baby !

[pacolecce]

un'altro pianeta

[jiggity99]

(with a ?)

[AstroScorp1]

Jazz is our art and it is our science.

[jiggity99]

Anyone have a violin.

[Thetaquo]

I think it's definitely as complicated as any science!

[bobaiyun]

Know where I can get the recording?

[futboler454]

yer lookin at it

[Mikeyaw0110]

go joey!!!!!

[theblueknight99]

A MASTER and a NEW STAR!! THEY're Two MONSTER of the PIANO!

[pianolockstyle]

Uao

[Thianam]

very goood! the version of herbie hancock and oscar peterson is also very good!

[chilkari]

One of the most amazing jazz duets I've seen. Fantastic!

[ssminopoopy]

Oh MAMA! What a brilliant duo.

[godswiph]

who needs a rehearsal?

[hoolythebold]

'Just a blues...'

[ReminiscenceHr]

Oh my freaking...

[raikonomicron]

oh yeah. and...this is a F Blues?? haha amazing.

[paulvichy]

Thanks, Dilberg1!!