Remarkable rendition of a jazz standard by young piano prodigy Georgie Dave. This version was developed by Professor Doug McKenzie. After 2 1/2 years of music instruction at a college in his hometown, Georgie shows his unusual talent in a studio jazz session accompanied by professional musicians: bass by Edwin Proaño (his ensemble professor), and drums byFidel Vargas (professional drummer).

Jazz Festival Vitoria-Gasteiz 2006 Brad Mehldau – piano Larry Grenadier – bass Jeff Ballard – drums

Learn how to play jazz piano like Charles Crawford does in How High the Moon. This jazz piano solo is incredible and will teach you how to play jazz piano. For more videos, check out www.charlescrawfordonline.com

Check out my book: bit.ly The point of this tutorial is to show you how easy piano improv can be. There’s a lot of mystique surrounding jazz piano, blues and other keyboard improvisation styles. And it’s true that to improvise at a high level takes a great deal of skill and practice. However, getting started with piano improvisation is dead easy. The trick is just to realise that you don’t have to use the whole keyboard at once. You can start with just one note. The way I get started here is by improvising different rhythms on middle C. I then add a single note at a time, working my way up the blues scale. If you take this approach it allows you to start improvising with something very, very easy and push your boundaries gradually. In the whole tutorial I only cover five notes in the right-hand. But you can do an enormous amount with those five. For example, you don’t have to play just one note at a time — you can form simple chords and use them to create rhythmic effects and jazzy licks. It’s important to remember that the piano is a percussion instrument, so you should really explore what you can do with rhythm and the quality of sound you get from hitting the keys in different ways. So far, so easy. Piano improvisation needs left-hand work as well, though. What I do in this tutorial is used a simple repeating left-hand pattern. There’s quite a good lesson here: you can achieve an awful lot with a very simple left hand. As long as it provides some harmonic context and …

Great Oscar Peterson plays solo! “I can’t get started” Variant in HD quality here: www.youtube.com All jazz books and transcriptions you need for educational purposes www.learnpiano.narod.ru

Lesson on building and jamming with rootless jazz piano chords. Apply these voicings for soloing and for playing behind other instruments. www.freejazzlessons.com

My Romance – jazz piano Lesson. This is another re-cycled midi file done some time ago. After the solo first chorus, I tried to get the ‘collective improvisation’ feel with bass, drums and piano responding to each other – even though I was playing all parts – this involving re-recording each part several times. I was hoping for a High Definition video here, as it is difficult to read the notation without it. There is a high quality video free to download at www.bushgrafts.com On my video – http there is a printable copy of the notation and the bass and drums backing track.

This song is a real pleasure to play. The natural flow of the piece is very melancholy and inwardly directed. Bill Evan’s version is a stand out. Nina Simone gives an amazing, haunting vocal rendering of this tune. If I were to be self critical of my playing on this piece, I think I overly relied on runs. I come close to derailing the melancholy mood with too much movement. If I do it again, I think I will focus on a more economical use of notes and pare it down a bit. I used Ivory Steinway patch and Yamaha CP300 as the keyboard controller.

www.PianoClubhouse.com This is a tutorial to play “ON BROADWAY” by George Benson. For access to more full-length tutorials, visit PianoClubhouse.com.

www.PianoClubhouse.com This is a tutorial to play “I SMILE” by Kirk Franklin (Hello Fear album, 2011). For access to more full-length tutorials, visit PianoClubhouse.com. ===================