Jim Hession Plays All Blues by Miles Davis/jazz waltz

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Jim Hession records this Miles Davis standard on solo piano. The original cut of this on the "Kind Of Blue" Miles album was improvised in the studio.
It remains one of the most definitive blues of the 1950's jazz repertoire. After stating the initial themes, Jim improvises with various rhythmic approaches, including 3/4 boogie. A great jazz waltz!

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[hypocrita]

2:46 is particularly amazing!

Could you make a comment about this passage?

Thanks! Nice video!

[jazznbear]

The passage you are referring to uses melodic double octaves in both hands, two octaves apart. The supreme masters of this particular technique would be Phineas Newborn Jr. and Oscar Peterson. The rest of us just do our best.

[elkwolf]

Ever since I watched Dick Hyman play the viper's drag in the honky tonk professor part 2 I've been trying to find out how to play the fatts waller waterfall. It is too fast for me to hear what is going, I mess around with a pentatonic scale to get a similar sound but not quite. Can you explain what it is? Thanks

[jazznbear]

Fats Waller's "waterfall effect" usually involved ascending/descending patterns of 6th, 7th or 9th chords in semi-regular structure, altered at will depending on the musical moment. Fat's use of these 32nd and 64th note runs primarily outlined the existing chord, unlike Art Tatum's use of non-chord tones and daring harmonic substitutions with similar rhythmic figures.

[bibulous]

Amazing stuff. Are you just running up and down a blues scale at 2:28 or is it something different?

[jazznbear]

The right hand passage at 2:28 is a spontaneous combination of a G blues scale and a C9sus chord. In an older style Fats Waller used a similar device known as the "waterfall" effect, using 6ths and dom.

7th chords. Variations of this effect are found also in blues players.

[KwameNewton]

Wow, I've learned a lot about jazz piano just by reading this page! Being a saxophonist, I never really took the time to learn anything about it. . .

[CruorLacrima]

O_O

[elkwolf]

I saw Dick Hyman do the fatts waller in the end of vipers drag in the honky tonk professor part 2. Ive been trying to learn how to do this but it is too fast for me to hear well. The only way I can get it to sound a bit like it is by messing around with a pentatonic scale (i dont know the mode name but it would be the one found on C D E G A all white notes). Could you explain how to do the Fatts Waller water? Thanks a lot. Great playing

[tonyjaa0070]

Can u you send me this music sheet please. I really want it. Thankyou

[cakeplus8psycho]

different interpretation of that song..interesting