The Joe Zawinul classic, piano solo style. First commenter to identify what brand piano I have wins a virtual prize. Grab a beer for this one, I blow for pretty much 8 minutes over ||:G7-C7:||. So the more you drink the better I sound.
This is just a one-chord blowing vehicle. My comping is more interesting than my soloing, if you ask me. If the ending reminds you of a Miles Davis tune, it's because we shamelessly ripped it off. I'm playing my modified Korg M1. (There are more mods than just the gaffer tape over the logo.) Name the Miles tune that the ending is ripped from and win a PRIZE!
Horace Washington & Friends doing a funky arrangement of MFV. This was recorded in 1992, and all wack scene changes are in the source video, not my doing. I don't have anywhere near that much hair anymore, by the way. Horace Washington on sax, Bob Carson on bass, and Phil Collier on drums and funky navy surplus gear. Yours truly playing a modified Korg M1.
Eddie Harris's one-chord jam. In this episode, I am playing to a drum loop. I dropped it in on the final video edit cause it adds a lot. You still have to imagine the bass line though.
I'm posting this because YouTube desperately needs more Monk tunes. Certainly not because it's one of my great performances. I am putting this up because there are some really cool ideas in there in between some of the awkward spots.
my version
a few different ways to manipulate tension and release
"Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muß man schweigen."
--Wittgenstein,
Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
Another one of my favorite Herbie tunes. From the album Maiden Voyage. This is one I've never played with any band, just messed with it on my own because I like the tune so much. It's in the real book with some mistakes in the changes. Any mistakes in this version are mine, not the real book's.
This is one of Herbie's best compositions in my opinon. It was originally orchestrated for a small group with trombone, fluegelhorn and flute plus a rhythm section, and released on the album "Fat Albert Rotunda." You're more likely to find the reissue called "Complete Warner Brothers Recordings," and you should definitely buy it. This is kind of a tricky piece to pull off solo.
Okay, I felt like Youtube needed some more straight ahead blowing. So here it is, Walkin' written by Richard Carpenter, made famous by Miles Davis. F blues. I'm also playing with my new metronome I got off ebay (it's actually thirty years old and I got it new in the box), it swings.
A bunch of choruses of blowing, then the head, then more blowing, then the head.
Bronislaw Kaper is the guy that wrote this as well as another kickass jazz standard known as On Green Dolphin Street. This tune (Invitation) is brilliantly composed and a bitch to play.
By popular demand (okay, one dude asked) I'm presenting this in the first-person perspective rather than the easy-to-get oblique shot from the side. I care about you guys _that_ much.
![Well You Needn\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/gLJ4F3VX3IE/2.jpg "Well You Needn\")
![Walkin\](http://img.youtube.com/vi/8SDCUimSZ5c/2.jpg "Walkin\")
