"Charleston" four-hand piano, unrehearsed -- Brier & Swanson

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Friday evening at the 2008 Sutter Creek Ragtime Festival, someone at the Ice Cream Emporium said she would love to hear Tom Brier and Adam Swanson play four-hand piano -- something they had never done before.
So they sat down and gave it a whirl. They decided to play James P. Johnson's famous dance song "Charleston".
Tom is on bass; Adam takes the melody.
You'll please forgive mistakes; this was not planned and they'd never played together on the same piano before. But it sure was fun, wasn't it?

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@bakhirun 14 лет назад

Timeless stuff! It's the bee's knees. In a couple of hundred years it will be the music of this era that will be honored as the 20th Century's finest. Kudos to these two gents, as they truly unwound the spirit of the Charleston. Boop-boop-de-doo!

@Keeper1st 15 лет назад

In fact, if you listen closely, you can hear Adam calling out "verse," "again," and "D-flat" so that Tom knows where he wants to go with the tune.

@MadonnaImperia 10 лет назад

I keep returning to this, it always makes me smile! :)

@Keeper1st 15 лет назад

This is at the Sutter Creek Ice Cream Emporium, at 51 Main Street, Sutter Creek, California. The piano being played is a player piano, hence the vast collection of rolls nearby.

@Keeper1st 15 лет назад

Watch the Chopsticks video seen in the Related Videos section: Adam gets a lesson in how much Tom will run with things! But Adam does a great job in joining back in and learning parts of the tune he didn't know (especially the Trio section that Tom just makes up on the spot).

@RCA630TS 14 лет назад

It's always nice to out-perform the player piano. Way to go!

@Keeper1st 12 лет назад

@Rmeister007 Yep. That's pianist & composer Kathi Backus. I have a few videos of her playing the piano too.

@wwatkins92 15 лет назад

Dang it, that's one lucky ice cream parlor... For an unrehearsed/unplanned coincidence, that's pretty darn good!

@Keeper1st 15 лет назад

I have no idea. I have not heard that before. It's probably contemporary, composed for some sort of TV show or something, used for comedic effect as they did in that video.

@besos_de_cereza_nails 14 лет назад

WONDERFUL

@btbuster1 13 лет назад

This was awesome!!!!

@TorontoEd7 14 лет назад

Amazing, loved it!

@Superchokocat 12 лет назад

i like how one of the guys is in like a tux thing it looks like he prepared for this

@Keeper1st 13 лет назад

@TheGilbeeno There was more of that. Check out when they did "Chopsticks" together later that weekend. Adam just didn't know what he had started!

@Keeper1st 15 лет назад

Someone posted videos year or two ago of John playing at a gig in the UK. That's the most recent I've heard anything of him.

@Rhertelendy 12 лет назад

That woman in the background is so into it!!!

@Keeper1st 14 лет назад

That's Kathi Backus. I have a video of her playing piano too.

@Keeper1st 16 лет назад

Oh, Tom is quite at home in the Jazz Age too.

@tdub1941 16 лет назад

Hi Ron! Good one! Fun to see the boys hard at work! RagJazzMonkey

@Keeper1st 15 лет назад

There's probably a four-hand arrangement to be found somewhere, but this performance was just made up on the spot.

@Keeper1st 12 лет назад

He prepared to be playing at the ragtime festival, thus he's dressed the part. But this is just some after-hours goofing off together.

@Keeper1st 16 лет назад

Moments later, Adam said what he'd like to hear is Frederick Hodges playing four-hand with Tom. They did "Russian Rag". There are some gaffes in it, but it was really fun, and the good parts far outweigh the gaffes. Adam even joined in at the end to make it five-hand piano. Stay tuned...

@Keeper1st 16 лет назад

If someone can fund an Australian tour for some of these guys, I'm sure they'd be happy to make the trip! Perth's John Gill used to come to the States every year back in the early 1990s. He's quite a piano tickler. And I think you know Mike Woolett's videos here on RU-vid. He's a great ear-player. But that's only two people, and Australia's a big place, so yeah, I guess you are ragtime deficient, alas. An injection would do you good!

@Keeper1st 14 лет назад

@skiny145 There is another video, posted by tdub1941 of Tom and Adam doing this again a few months later. I also have a video of them doing the tune on two pianos last year.

@Zefrenm 16 лет назад

Bows and starts dancing - Zefren

@MartinHakusho 16 лет назад

aaaaweeeeesoooommeeeee

@besos_de_cereza_nails 14 лет назад

jajajajaja, la señora de atras bien prendida XD

@SugarBearMosher 15 лет назад

i have a piano roll transcription of the roll. if you want it, you must downlaod a trial of notation and look it up in search

@kukral 15 лет назад

Where is this this and what are all these Welte-Mignon piano rolls doing there on the shelf?? Great fun. The Charleston is an underated piano piece!!

@Boogiestrepitus 15 лет назад

Hot piano session!!! Full of male strength and muscle power!!!

@Boogiestrepitus 15 лет назад

Full male muscle power hit in the keys!!!

@TheGilbeeno 13 лет назад

Best bit gotta be when Adam Swason finishes but the other guy keeps going looL!!!

@omfg123123 15 лет назад

I'd like to play this piece with my piano teacher... And i found only the "2 hand" version :( Does a 4-hand score exist, or this is just an improvisation?