Best piano player in the world

the girl next door · Post by **the girl next door** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 5:42 am

How to kick shit out of your Nord lead
Hiromi Uehara

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okWg_6mhxWY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XYBRfi_t3FA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBWxZAR_MsY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQ7gMN04zkA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5mK2fv7y9YY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ll5Fkucpfx4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gPcSvtrTY

knotkranky · Post by **knotkranky** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:11 am

My progressive rock throw-in. Had the record in high school. 1978 i think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjWu9p-GTT4

Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 6:38 am

The latest YouTube whore village idiot
Ronald Jenkees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BvWqmGpCAI

but Bill Evans kills me every time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_dHE5hQIA
talk about an e-mail checker!!! He's so emo he doesn't even know it.

snowtires · Post by **snowtires** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:47 am

that first song is absolutely awful, no matter how good of a player she is. why is it that the best players are usually the worst song writers?

snowtires · Post by **snowtires** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 7:57 am

aaaaaaaaaahahahahahahahahaha the entire time i was watching these clips, i was think, 'god, this is something only someone who went to berklee would listen to' and she is a berklee student ahahahahaha she's got chops for sure but, fuck, write some songs that aren't just constant shredding. that's such a berklee pitfall, it's like, 'hey, i can shred, i'm gonna do it all the time!'

krank · Post by **krank** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:00 am

You know, I tend to agree. There's this thing with 'good taste' in any incarnation, even if it's avant-garde, that rubs me the wrong way. These players probably have a really good time, feeling all the years spent practising have paid off, feeling they're pushing the envelope musically. But it's still just a lot of fashionable bleep-bloink.

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 10:32 am

Tone Deft wrote:but Bill Evans kills me every time
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p_dHE5hQIA
talk about an e-mail checker!!! He's so emo he doesn't even know it.

+1000000000
i absolutely love bill evans. i'm always amazed how utterly happy is music is, knowing all he's been through in his life.
his last trio with jonshon and labarbera is incrdible.
incidentaly, i'm quite happy that my first EP "bill's break" was based on a bill evans sample. it's a kind of tribute.

mingusman · Post by **mingusman** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 9:19 pm

ugh, what awful music. there's no taste here; who would spend money to see/hear this garbage? i swear, prog-rock-fusion has to be the worst thing that ever happened to instrumental music...dave weckl, dream theatre, some chick corea....it's all such pointless cock-grabbing music for musicians without any sense of creating an emotional experience. i bet 99% of steve vai's fanbase is wanky guitar players with weaker chops.

for those of you who know instrumental jazz, there's this kid Eldar who's like 16 and has astounding technique, but absolutely no sense of taste. i've never heard a single artistic statement from this kid...it's like music is a sport, not an art. he'll never say anything as profound as bill evans or thelonius monk or duke ellington...

...or the guy he's ripping off, art tatum (who's got technique out the ass, all the way back in like 1930!):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aNAJlqn0nO4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MNp-ldlnf5s
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uzj6Q61h3oA

-morgan

TITBAG · Post by **TITBAG** » Mon Jul 16, 2007 11:36 pm

well i watched the first thirty seconds of that first video. what a total crock of shit.

leisuremuffin · Post by **leisuremuffin** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 1:34 am

Exhibits a and b:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyoHb2eE ... ed&search=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmm_XUiW ... ed&search=

music is about more than what notes you play.

some people have emotions, not techniques.

even if you go way out, phrasing and feeling still wins for me over soulless exercises in pyrotechnical virtuosity (exhibit c) :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yomesyf8GFY

although there's a time for pyrotechnical displays of a sort too i suppose (exhibit d):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqWPl0AexnA

.lm.

knotkranky · Post by **knotkranky** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:30 am

Yeah, that fusion stuff is really just a circle jerk.

art tatum is truly badass,

Check out Oscar Peterson. He's a big fave of mine.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Ebo12xg4ws

philipc · Post by **philipc** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 10:43 am

I like her hair but thats about it. Her expression while playing scares me. And the guitarist looks like a young Gary Glitter.

mingusman · Post by **mingusman** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:18 pm

yeeeaah monk baby.

he's definitely got thems emotions....but you know, it's cuz of those beautiful notes he plays! he just knows exactly the right ones.

oscar peterson....total motherfucker on the piano; imagine if he and tatum did a duo album.

speaking of monk...has anybody heard of hans groiner? he "fixed" monk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51bsCRv6kI0

funky shit · Post by **funky shit** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 3:54 pm

what the hell?

im 10 times better than her...................

peeddrroo · Post by **peeddrroo** » Tue Jul 17, 2007 4:09 pm

mingusman wrote:speaking of monk...has anybody heard of hans groiner? he "fixed" monk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=51bsCRv6kI0

hahaha
thanks for this one!

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