I started playing piano when I was 4 because my older brother played and I wanted to do whatever he did. I won a bunch of classical competitions but didn’t really get into music until I joined my high school jazz band. More than the actual genre of jazz, it was the freedom of improvisation that I couldn’t get enough of. I studied jazz and classical piano at Arizona State University and took a bunch of lessons with some amazing pianists like Fred Hersch, Kenny Werner and Uri Caine. I worked as a full time gigging jazz musician for a long time but I don’t think I found my true calling until moving to Japan. A month after I moved here I lucked into my first job arranging 15 songs for a solo piano album. The CD sold really well and more arranging projects came my way. Over a few year period I came to realize that arranging, composing and teaching was my true calling so I quit plThanks for checking out my channel and feel free to visit my homepage for more information. www.jacobkoller.com
Bosendorfer is warmer than Yamaha which is sharper, fresher whereas former has a vintage old wood touch. Steinway is somewhere between the two but closer to Yamaha. All three are amazing.
So good. Spain is my favourite song, starting from Joaquin Rodrigo's Concierto de Aranjuez. Chick Corea was incredibly daring to build on this wonderful piece to produce one of the most iconic and complex jazz standards.
I think ghis vuy should have a good hard look at Kurzweil, their latest leave every thingb dark. I dont work for or recieve anything from these people so i can go by what i hear and see. The latest 2700 is something a whiole lot different from all the rest.. I do own a Kurzweil but not one of these, however i would adives anyone looking for a really magic keyboard to take a look. The top pianos are without doubt very nice indeed if you can afford on but even my keyboard has about 16 differnt pianos all of them good and very in relation to what they represent. Its real catch is the nuge amount of things it can do ALL of them sounds we dream about plus a whole load of sound building by layering, the keyboard feels like a good piano action that is very sensative to the players needs.!!!!!
Can you connect your other instruments like a synthesizer into the piano and play it from the piano's keyboard? I mean MIDI out from the piano to the synth and then audio out from the synth to audio in on the piano. So the synths sound plays through the transacoustic "soundboard-speaker". That would be great especially if there is no noticeable latency/delay which I suspect bluetooth audio can suffer from.
It’s been years I listen to this play. Pops up randomly in my mind once every month or so. And I don’t listen so much piano solos but this is sur a piece of art. Please never take it down from the internet !!!
Hello Jacob, being a big fan of Elton John. I love the Jazz version of Rocket Man, which you covered. You gave me the taste and the desire to take up the piano again. And thank you for that 😍
