Barron/Mehldau - Black Orpheus

[DebbSaxx1]

What a joy to watch. Those gorgeous improvised chords -- oh my !!

[lukasarkham]

Great performance!

[bboyraph]

C'est trop trop bon ....

[eran1909]

real diamond!!!!!

[MrNadav1995]

super****************



[lozruh]

The best.

[cakeplus8psycho]

badass

[Mochito88]

It's not as beautiful as it should have been played for two pianos. It's too jammy crammy. The rhythm didn't groove the mood, it collided. Almost as if they never rehearsed the song together. Latin players wound have thought it through first or at least danced the harmonies rhythmically together. Please re-do it.

[deependful]

@Mochito88 this isn't latin. it's bossa. and it's called improvisation, i'm sure they knew the tune very well but ad-libbed the complete performance. sounds like they bounced off and provided the right space for each other beautifully. how bout you 're-do' this performance and post us a copy if you think it can be done better.

[Mochito88]

@deependful -- In common musical listings in the USA Bossa Nova is under the Latin category. -- Latin musical influences formed by the colonies which landed in Rio De Janero which was discovered by a contemporary of Christopher Columbus by the name of Amerigo Vespucci 1200's (Italian/ Latino /Portuguese). He named it "Rio Del Jenero" -- "The River January" in Brazil South America. Bossa Nova is a modern Jazz/Pop musical form created in the 1960's by Brazilian artists.

[markmarktarmann]

@Mochito88 i try to imagine you at rehearsal w/your salsa band. you're the singer? or the choreographer? saying to the band "okay fellas, we FIRST need to dance the harmonies together RYTHMICALLY! " and the salseros are goin' "who the fuck is this menso?" Tom Waits once said to his band " i want this song over easy, not fried". that i can almost understand. your perfect load of shit phrase,no lo comprendo, vato . nice cut and paste. if we need wiki, we'll go there ourselves.

[markmarktarmann]

@Mochito88 context, hommes. check the context.2 150,000$ grand pianos, european sit down crowd.2 genius Jazz(marketing term musicians. improvisers, getting paid to play together for an hour. if you need solid Salsa (marketing term) for dancing go get out your tito puente. or gloria estefan( joke).you don't know WTF yer talking about.Bossa Nova (marketing term) means" the new thing."-wiki.It's a Brasilian song interpreted by US jazz musicians therefore i'm sure Luiz Bonfa is smiling down on them.

[markmarktarmann]

@deependful it's a brasilian song, written probably before "bossa nova" was used to describe the "new thing".-(wiki)i see a lot of brasilians nitpicking here about US jazzers inserting rumba into samba,ok. fine. they definitely do that here, and bop, swing, blues, deep purple,cha cha, classical lines. nice challenge to mochito88 who apparently got his Phd in "load of shit phraseology."

[pluggedin2u]

Dilberg1 . Thanks for posting such a gem of a performance. Bravo!

[kurvasignup]

their play is wonderful but the pianos have terrible sound in the higher notes.

[NelzonJLeon]

i liked very good...!!!

[123must]

They all two are among the great!

[willyjerome627]

god barron is killing it on that solo

[boblepongeu]

listen mehldau at 09:23 .. just wonderfull

[bananaboydu75]

=O

[y34r]

wow,the way brad laid back is totally awesome,

but clearly kenny barron was kind of on different rhythm ,pulse,when he's comping at first chorus of brad's solo

they are both legend,dont get me wrong.

I just did feel like that,

just my 2 cents

[MusicJo3]

@y34r xD 2 cents, nice, ya ur kinda right :) i felt like that too, but dude this is genious, is it wrong? i guess its kinda funny to see him comping on different rhythm. Let's interprete this: its the human feeling in this fckin freakin song, no human is perfect and ofc theyre all doing mistakes but the cool thing, the genious thing is u dont get it when theyre wrong cuz of theyre skill to let the wrong notes/rhtythm ... look like theyre right.

[ConradLocke]

Kenny Barron's solo is excellent, but the other one is just a fail...

[MCalixte89]

wow :D

[jazzpianist120]

i still cant get tireed of this video!!!!now what i'm waiting for is to see a Kenny Barron/Herbie Hancock duet video....that would just be AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[properbeatz]

Mehldau is such a heroin addict... I love it!

[jazzpianist120]

@properbeatz sadly to say,but its true....but then again which great pianist wasn't and isn't lol

[properbeatz]

@jazzpianist120 there must be something in the heroin...

[MCalixte89]

@properbeatz why would u love that?

[properbeatz]

@MCalixte89 I'll borrow this line with one minor edit: "I don't know why I love it, but I do."

[xguitarx5]

@properbeatz

you're an idiot

[properbeatz]

@xguitarx5 I'm pretty sure that the guy who commented negatively towards a humorous remark on YouTube is the individual with the severe intelligence deficiency.

[comiendolimon99]

best piano jazz duo i´ve seen...

[jazzpianist120]

@comiendolimon99 if you like this one check out chick and herbie going at it.... Chick and Herbie Liza... a must see!

[KrummyBear]

Get out.... 

[Schleimschlabber]

where can i download this?

[musicis101]

Such a good cover. Thanks for posting this!

P.S. Please tell me I'm not the only one who thinks Brad Mehldau looks a bit like Paul Rudd...

[1manband511]

@musicis101 THANK YOU

[shawn195]

HOLY SH**!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :)

[Xtreaming]

the absolute contrapoing 3:12 UAU extraordinary measures

[mailxqa]

AWESOME !

[guitarurchin]

genial -- increible!

[fullboxacrayons]

pocket! 

[jpstenino]

WHAT A FANTASTIC MUSICAL PERFORMANCE...THANK YOU!!

[buddingtonparker]

I love this version for four hands.

[fuckingharpsichord]

i love the intro

[wyattmilton07]

energy like this is not found in our normal realm.

superb duo

[jsuter0516]

Barron is definitely playing stairway to heaven in the intro.

[callumpassells67]

@jsuter0516 He's actually playing the coda to the song in the beginning; just switching up the arrangement. No Zeppelin there.

[po24244908]

@jsuter0516 Stairway? You should really listen to Nothing at all by gentle giant.

[brainyinaction]

que maravilla!

[wevsshangtsung]

the "duel" just before the reprise is so masterly played. funky as helll

[mdn0706]

off the planet

[zachrhea1]

Brad coughs at 3:54. I hate when that happens while you're playing. You become so aware of your body after that and it's hard to get back in the zone, but he obviously had no problems.

[14luisalonso]

@zachrhea1 i can relate to that... i've been trying for some years now to take my body along, so hopefully i dont look as goofy as I do on pics and videos... seriously... i try to bring posture and breathing into the playing situation. i play guitar.

[YukusLasombra]

muito bom !!! maravilhoso!!! pqp!!!!

[snillocmail]

one of the most amazing jazz performances i've ever seen. the energy that they build together is remarkable.

[thelifeofdoton]

Brad Mehldau is such an amazing inspiration. Spoke with him the other day at Birdland and he told me things i've never known or understood. Amazing.

[purestmonk]

@thelifeofdoton what did he say?

[KyoungjinKang]

amazing. that's all.. amazing.

[MrAvros]

nonsense: together..I STILL DON'T GET TIRED OF WATCHING THIS VIDEO!

IN ITALY!!! WHEN THE NEXT TIME??

[nonsense120]

man this is like my 100th time watching this video....still cant get tired of it...kenny barron is the most man....Mehldau too....last sememster i spent the whole semester studying kenny's swing feel....he got an amazing swing...and his improv lines are just incredible!

[ChristofferGroen]

Many piano duets can often get a bit "floaty" and rubato... but this is just SOO FUNKY. Delightful!

[arnoldhamburg]

The beginning are the completly chordline of Fantasy by Earth, Wind and Fire ?!

[nonsense120]

i still dont get tired of watching this video!

[virveh]

oh my god...

[lepoud]

@virveh

[WAMEDJO]

@virveh

ah my goddess...

[virveh]

oh my god...

[vonthadden]

kenny is the man !

[goezoe]

please whats the name of the song of the melody in the begining

[clod77]

It's the ending to black orpheus.

[goezoe]

yeah but they used it on a other song

[thepianosolo]

It's the coda of black orpheus...

[nonsense120]

its black orpheus...its part of the same...the ending actually...but he uses it as an intro

[jallenjazz]

it is the same melody as the song Manha de Carnaval by Luiz Bonfá and Antonio Maria

[goezoe]

thx you that melody come also in kiss from a rose and antoher song pretty fast song but i dont know that song

[ChristofferGroen]

You are absolutely right...

[namenottaken0]

@jallenjazz yup, it's actually the same song, just different names. The name Black Orpheus originated from the title of the movie that Bonfa's Manha de Carnaval was in.

[JulinhodeAdelaide]

But "it is" Manhã de Carnaval.

Black Orpheus is the name of a Brazilian film based on Vinícius de Moraes' play "Orfeu da Conceição".

[nonsense120]

@JulinhodeAdelaide yes

[clementleung17]

As if solo-ing and duet-ing simultaneously... that's really good.

[shnagabad]

Oh noes if only they both went to major at the end :P

still amazing performance - love the blend of styles

[pyLz]

9:00 :)

[thepianosolo]

incredible :D

[fiddlercrab3]

Love the little riff at 2:48 or so that Mehldau catches and throws back! This is quite the pairing. I see this as something of a "changing of the guard." Barron plays more traditional stuff with an emphasis on tone, whereas Mehldau's focus lies more on rhythmic interplay. The combination is gorgeous.

[nonsense120]

my man kenny barron is great on this tune...its amazing how he's able to comp and solo at the same time...and uses some call and reponse wit his left and right hand....great video

[carloamuscat]

mehldau is on fire at 6:38!

[squandermania]

This two piano setup really works well. I'm sure that they are both happy to be able to play more sparsely.

[AstroScorp1]

Mehldau can manage to make pretty much any pianist feel insecure about their playing. The consummate piano artist he is....maybe history won't understand him till much later...

[iplaymusc]

Whoops!!! I almost forgot tensions 9 and 11... 9 against sharp 9??? Thats why it sounds so weird. Great performance though!

[LukeSock]

Sh! We'll just say they meant to end on an A-(maj) chord and be done with it!

[iplaymusc]

Because its not just an A-(maj) chord. There are more tensions that clash with each other.

[LukeSock]

You can often name a chord in more than one way, especially in the case of analyzing cluster chords such as this.

An A-(maj)7 could be correct, consdering you COULD have...

G#+B+C#+E and

G+B+C+E and likely

A in the bass.

More possibilities set aside, that's kind of a way of looking at it. Although I think we might be over-analyzing, haha!

I looked at your page, see you're going to Berklee. Good on you! I really wish I could go there...

[iplaymusc]

Lol! Yeah, I know I definitely over analyzed it. I wrote that comment at the beginning of the school year when we were diving deep into the harmony aspects of theory. By the way, it sounds like you could easily get into Berklee to me.

[LukeSock]

Hahah, I wish. While I do know a fair bit of the knowledge, my skill is not up to snuff. I spent more time in highschool busting my ass for grades than I did for practicing (augh)! So now I'm trying to get caught up on that aspect.

[iplaymusc]

Haha.. at the end of the song, one of them went to a major chord while the other went to a minor. I guess that can function as a 7th chord add sharp9 on the tonic... LOL!! (I'm sorry, I'm a music geek)

[atzebrechsau]

and besides... you cannot compare their play with that what chick corea does in this style of music...

[jackthe7th]

idk what you listened to, but i hear melodies interlaced into those scales, alternative chords, impressive technique, use of the whole instrument, and a solid use of the jazz language. The same from Mehldau but with alot more repetition. He really takes his ideas and evolves them. Both are incredible.

[DDRaddict]

He is just a pleasure to listen to. The stuff he plays just sounds good and puts me in a good mood. :D