"Hymn To Freedom" - Jim Martinez Plays Oscar Peterson

I found a young gal (10milesfromnowhere) playing this piece here on MySpace. She did a fine job. I wanted to write her some tips, however, I think another video is more descriptive. I'm reading the same music from the Oscar Peterson transcription book. Although I haven't worked this one up to performance caliber, it's a quick try. Years ago, I recorded a CD called "A Musical Tribute to Oscar Peterson and Fats Waller". Even recorded with Ed Thigpen 3 times. So playing Oscar material is right up my alley. My website is www.jimmartinez.com and myspace.com/jazzpraise. Check it out if you like church hymns with a flavor of Oscar and Brubeck.

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• freedom
• jazz
• piano
• oscar
• peterson
• jim
• martinez

[joeramirez9]

When am I going to hear some Jim Martinez "originals?" You've got the technique but just like a classical pianist, you can learn all of the jazz literature playing someone else's music but a greater contribution, in my humble opinion, would be an expansion to such literature with original creations that someone else in the future will try to learn and emulate from your original!

Joe Ramirez

[itmsjim]

@joeramirez9 Joe, good to hear from you. I would invite you to go to my website and look around at some of the things I have been doing in my career. I truly hope you aren't basing your comments on some of my YouTube videos. I'm currently on a short tour in North Carolina. I'm about as busy as a musician would want to be right now. Not sure I want to stop the career to write originals that may or may not ever be heard. But I respect your opinion. Thx!

[itmsjim]

@joeramirez9 You also might not know that I do a ton of arranging and that's where my heart and focus is. Check out my latest CD, "He Keeps Me Swinging" featuring two Grammy Award winning artists. I even wrote a tune on there. This old video, if you read the info, was just a tutorial for another pianist. It does not represent what I play for a living.

[pianojazzdreamer]

lovely played , can you tell me from which oscar peterson transcription book you find the sheet ? thk you!

[itmsjim]

@pianojazzdreamer From Oscar's Note-for-Note book on his website.

[Joniweinfurtner]

the sheet on the grand piano music bothers me ;) despite this fact, well done :D

[itmsjim]

Thanks. Why should the music bother you? Read my description to the right, please. This was not a Jazz/Improv performance...I was showing another pianist a better way to approach it. That's all. :-)

[midiw]

too bad, what a shame, he did not have enough video tape to finish the song

[awwyeaboyee]

this song always kills me.

[jojotanify]

NICE work!!!

[BSraacing]

You play it sooooo nice, Jim !

God has blessed you with a big talent of playing piano ! :)

[jonwlo]

Wasn't the 10milesfromnowhere girl playing the version in B b?

[smalcolm93]

AMAZING! I could listen to this over and over again, but please, please do it again and get all the way to the end. Very exciting.

[Criticalperspective2]

Jazz on a classical structure: amazing.

[Criticalperspective2]

These 10th make all the difference!

[PynkWalkr]

Is this composition in F from the performance in Paris? Because most of the recordings floating around have a different arrangement, and in the key of Bflat.

Regardless, great playing!

[MrNefetiri]

sounds like performance quality to me lol! did you add any of your own improv btw?

[mujeresenganiadas]

I don't understand why people complain about you reading. Reading music is an art form itself, and being able to read and play with the groove that you play, that is something really hard to do!!! This performance is amazing, one of the best i've seen, clean, tempo is great!!! You manage to fit all the notes without stretching the beats (some people do this and say that is their "feeling", when is just that they can not play them)

[suzyqgirl]

verrry nice, loved it

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