'Too Young To Go Steady '- a solo jazz piano tutorial

Too Young To Go Steady - a solo jazz piano tutorial. Another under-played standard. I associate this most with Coltrane, but the version by Keith Jarrett stands out for me.
I played this as a very slow ballad - and found myself playing right at the extreme end of the piano for quite a bit of the time. I have tried to notate this with the up-an-octave '8va' sign, but on the basic notation options that I had available, this might not be entirely clear - you can hear it however, and see the high treble playing on the keyboard display.
I have tried to notate the out-of-tempo sections as logically as I could so that the notation follows the original 32 bar format, and the chord symbols line up correctly. However the interpretation of this is open of course. The printable transcription is on my DVD - http://www.bushgrafts.com/jazz/DVDbuy.htm -
(over 120 printable transcriptions of these videos and more than 9 hours of high quality video for $25 !)

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[ankhaton]

What a Joy to be able to play like this Doug ++++++

[mallonet]

So quiet...so good...!!!!

[EffortsatImprov]

I guess my video response wasn't good enough, or you're on holiday or sick or something. Hope you're not sick and maybe you could tell me if you liked my rendition, I thought it was sensitive.

Best wishes,

Mike

[effortsatreading]

Absolutely beautiful!

I know it's streets ahead of my rendition of Andre Previn's arrangement but I hope you allow my video response to be associated with this masterpiece.

Mike

[chatoXvato]

im not the greatest player but I know with intense pratice. I can master that.. I just need a keyboard with 81 keys instead of 61 :(

[2723552]

Wish I could play

[wolf1750]

Charmingly introspective ... Wolf

[desertlight]

Gorgeous Doug!

When I first heard this tune as a kid in the 1959 R&R era I never thought of it as jazz probably because of the common I-VI-II-V sequence in the verse.

Then I heard the first jazz arrangement as a vocal and my perception changed. The bridge is more jazz harmony than R&R and somehow the whole piece sounds great with the right jazz artist playing it.

You're the man, Doug

[737flyhigh]

thanks