Terence Koo: JESSICAS THEME (Stuart & Sons Piano)

Terence Koo (www.terencekoo.com) - Professional Jazz Pianist from Newcastle, Australia, plays his rendition of "Jessicas Theme" (From the Man From Snowy River) by Bruce Rowland. Recorded at the Stuart & Sons Piano Factory. Video by Ian Dunn. Audio by Phillip Sawyers. Digital downloads and other songs available at: http://iTunes.com/TerenceKoo

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• Terence Koo
• Jazz Pianist
• Piano
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• Australia
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• improvisation
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• Pieces of Rain
• smooth jazz

[TerenceKoo]

GreenLifeSource - you've made my day!! :)

Thanks for watching - more videos to come soon.

[TerenceKoo]

Thanks everyone for your great comments and feedback. The Stuart Piano is truly a beautiful instrument, and I was very fortunate to have the chance to record on it. I agree that my music doesn't yet fully use the extremes of the keyboard, however, this is not to say that one day I won't feel the need to push the boundaries of conventional piano playing.

Thanks again for watching :)

[alaitain]

very very good, i like the emotion u put into the playing

[GreenLifeSource]

14 extra keys or no, this man can make a piano come to life. A lot of people have learned to play the piano, but only a true artist can move you with his/her capabilities. This man does more than simply play, he takes the listener to another place.

[limosince2007]

@trumpman87 This wasn't written in the classical or romantic period. This for written for the film 'The Man from Snowy River' (1982).

[allygaloo]

I have great admiration for Terence Koo's playing and lovely music. I was surprised to read the posts below by trumpman. Surely TK would not play this piano if he did not like its sound and enjoy what it offers. The number of keys not only gives more scope for composition and extemporising, but also the extreme low and high notes add to the resonance giving more colour to the overall sound. Bosendorfer built a model with 97 keys for Busoni so that he could play his Bach organ transcriptions.

[trumpman87]

Most pieces written in the classical or romantic period rarely go into the extreme high or low register of the standard 88 key piano, because those compositions were written for a 70 key piano. If they do it is only for a brief few seconds or notes. What will and extra 14 keys do if we don't use them? I don't even see modern compositions using this piano. All Props to Terence Koo, but this piano is not fit for his playing style or pieces.

[trumpman87]

I am sorry but this is absolutely ridiculous. This Piano was designed with and extra 14 keys, which are not even being used in any of these video's or compositions. Therefore, we don't even know how the piano sounds in those ranges ( low or high). The most Perfect Steinway or Bosedorfer pianos are still more clear and have a much more beautiful quality to them than any one of these wiry and metallic sounding , overpriced pianos.

[AndrewDBarker]

I have to say as someone who has perfect pitch, that the Stuart and Sons is just a blissful instrument to listen to. This is what the piano should have been years and years ago.

[moronslave]

magnificent!