Summertime - Piano Improvisation

at the moment I live in Germany and here the summer is nearly always much humid one (RAIN), I hatred this type of summer and I have tried this my version of "Summertime" what mean's for me this 2007 German much rain summer.

You can also visit my other new channel:
http://www.youtube.com/JustPianoforte
There I just start to make some tutorials for Jazz musicians beginners, and more :-)


Many of his compositions have been used on television and in numerous films, and many became jazz standards. The jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald recorded many of the Gershwins' songs on her 1959 Gershwin Songbook (arranged by Nelson Riddle). Countless singers and musicians have recorded Gershwin songs, including Fred Astaire, Louis Armstrong, Al Jolson, Bobby Darin, Art Tatum, Bing Crosby, Janis Joplin, John Coltrane, Frank Sinatra, Billie Holiday, Sam Cooke, Miles Davis, Herbie Hancock, Madonna, Judy Garland, Julie Andrews, Barbra Streisand, Marni Nixon, Natalie Cole, Patti Austin, Nina Simone, Maureen McGovern, John Fahey, The Residents, Sublime, and Sting.

About the composer:
George Gershwin (September 26, 1898 July 11, 1937) was an American composer and pianist whose early death brought to a premature halt one of the most remarkable careers in American music. Gershwin's compositions spanned both popular and classical genres, and his most popular melodies are universally familiar. He wrote most of his vocal and theatrical works in collaboration with his elder brother, lyricist Ira Gershwin. George Gershwin composed music for both Broadway and the classical concert hall, as well as popular songs that brought his work to an even wider public.
Gershwin's compositions have been used in numerous films and on television, and many became jazz standards recorded in numerous variations. Countless singers and musicians have recorded Gershwin songs.

Early life
Gershwin was named Jacob Gershowitz at birth in Brooklyn on September 26, 1898. His parents were Russian Jews. His father, Morris (Moishe) Gershowitz, changed his family name to 'Gershvin' sometime after immigrating to the United States from St. Petersburg, Russia in the early 1890s. Gershwin's mother Rosa Bruskin had already immigrated from Russia. She met Gershowitz in New York and they married on July 21, 1895.[1] (George changed the spelling of the family name to 'Gershwin' after he became a professional musician; other members of his family followed suit.)
George Gershwin was the second of four children.[2] He first displayed interest in music at the age of ten, when he was intrigued by what he heard at his friend Maxie Rosenzweig's violin recital.[3] The sound and the way his friend played captured him. His parents had bought a piano for lessons for his older brother Ira, but to his parents' surprise and Ira's relief, it was George who played it.[4] Although his younger sister Frances Gershwin was the first in the family to make money from her musical talents, she married young and devoted herself to being a mother and housewife. She gave up her performing career, but settled into painting for another creative outlet — painting was also a hobby of George Gershwin.
Gershwin tried various piano teachers for two years, and then was introduced to Charles Hambitzer by Jack Miller, the pianist in the Beethoven Symphony Orchestra. Until Hambitzer's death in 1918, he acted as Gershwin's mentor. Hambitzer taught Gershwin conventional piano technique, introduced him to music of the European classical tradition, and encouraged him to attend orchestra concerts.[5] (At home following such concerts, young Gershwin would attempt to reproduce at the piano the music that he had heard.) Gershwin later studied with classical composer Rubin Goldmark and avant-garde composer-theorist Henry Cowell.

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[KonstantinosMin]

hi i would really appreciate if you had any of your music in midi,spectacular piano playing!

[PianistaItaliano]

@KonstantinosMin Thanks it's much appreciated.

For a midifile, just have a look to my last video upload "the show is over"please. Thanks again

[anandamide199]

I don't get it - how is the song improv when written by someone else?

[PianistaItaliano]

@anandamide199 Hi Greg, in jazz, there are thousands of musicians who improvise on songs written by others composers. I will do a superficial explanation: actually a song is just made​up a melody and harmony, in this case I play the harmony and melody in the first part, in the second part I use the same harmony of the first part, but not the melody, and then instead of the melody I try to improvising at the moment, as you do with jazz. :-D

I hope I explained myself well.

[JazzielFunkard]

why isn't this on the album? can i buy this track?

[PianistaItaliano]

@JazzielFunkard hi, this track is not for sale, sorry

[PianistaItaliano]

@willetheG Because Youtube is better ! :-D

[chopper84a]

I admit it; I am very, very jealous!

[MrDriller36]

@anandamide199 look up the word IMPROVISE, and then you will get it.

[yuckfou312]

@anandamide199 jazz music is written in lead sheets where you only get the basic melody line and the chords that go along with it. it's almost like writing in short hand for music. it's meant for the musician reading the lead sheets to make their own improvised version of the song, unlike classical music where every little detail of the piece is written in the sheet music and that's exactly what is played. hope that helps clarify things for you!

[CooCurrent]

@anandamide199 Improv doesn't just mean making up something on the spot from scratch. By definition I think it means using what you have to create something, etc. So essentially you could take the skeleton of the song, and the basic melody and improvise around it, add ornaments, runs, and different harmonies and all sorts of things too numerous to go into!

(I can improvise reasonably well - but I certainly don't understand all of it technically, but I'm working on it! xD)

[usaokun1]

Muy elgante!

[MyleneChristie]

MAGNIIIFIIIQUEEE!!!

[fatfatat444]

I like Jazz. I play piano and bass!!!! I LIKE THIS.

[MrPoulicnaLampa]

oooooooooooooooooh i love it

[t3med]

Unbeliveable... I'm brazilian and I am impressioned about it!!! omg is this really ab improvisation? I can't believe... I studied classical piano and I think this is absolutely amazing!!! jazz pianists need to study a lot to play it!