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Els temes que va tocar en Ray: Here's what Ray played: 0:12 Take the A train 3:35 Willow weep for me 10:36 Satin doll 14:12 Slow freight 20:03 Moanin' 23:44 Liebestraum boogie 27:12 Good morning heartache 31:36 The impossible rag 33:10 After hours 36:42 Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 41:42 St. Louis blues 47:23 Little Susie
It's so refreshing to hear and see a master like Ray Bryant playing in his inimitable blues-rooted, two fisted style after hearing so many younger artist trying "taking jazz to another level" or bring "contemporary world music" into it or something like that Thanks for sharing!
When I read a comment like yours, I think of Teddy Wilson in interviews telling how piano players had to create dance music, with a trio, quartet, or even solo. Add that to the high standards and absolute necessity of "feeling and swing" in gospel church music, and it's easy to figure out that, if you could not create a groove, a swing, a toe tapping , head bopping, make you want to get and dance rhythm, you would not find work as an early jazz musician.(30's 40's, maybe into the 60's) Trane, Mingus, Cannonball, Bird, even Bill Evans had to at least play "casuals" and create and maintain a fox trot, or cha cha, and please, yes, a swing that you could lindy hop to, or for god sakes, a ballad a couple could could sway to. That's what's missing. Excuse me, but even if it don't make you want to dance, it aint music. It certainly aint jazz. Even Coltrane at his most extreme avant grade edge had a pulse you could feel. Jazz in the hands of most kids today, i can't feel it, it aint funky, it aint jazzy. It's overhyped shiny, polished up technical exercises and memorized solos and theory and ironically delivered and flavored, some retro flavor of the day bullshit.Jazz in these kids hands, sorry, It aint got a PULSE, brother. It's gone from critical to comatose, to dead. It is too cerebral, it is taught to be played way up in one's head, instead of in the gut. okay i'm done.
@@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out i couldn't agree more ! Many thanks. Today's ( and from the 80s) jazz is Berklee school jazz. Taught but NOT felt. it is boring. Wynton Marsalis tried to revive it. He succeeded up to a point. I like his Lincoln Center Big Band. Ray Bryant was one of my very favorit4 piano players. He had that bluesy feeling and the swing. Everything he did was great.
I think this is a wonderful video of Mr. Bryant tickling the ivories. I wish I'd learned about him when he was still with us. Hopefully, he's doing his thing in Heaven.
+Pam Evans Hi Pam, Reading your words brought back a memory I'll be happy to share. In summer 2007 (?) I managed to sea and hear mr. Bryant play in an intimate setting at the North Sea Jazz festival in the Hague. He was an aged artist at the time but performed like a" klavierleeuw" (piano lion) as we say in dutch. On his way back from stage he suddenly stood before me. Didn't hesitate for a second.. I shook his hand: "Mr. Bryant, thank you for the music !". He hold my hand for a while and said looking up, with a kind of perfect shy, sweet smile : "My Pleasure !" Didn't wash my hand for days.. Wherever he might be; I'm sure he's been playing right on, Happy holidays from Holland
+lies schot How lovely for you, Lies. Thank you for sharing your experience with me. It's wonderful when some performers are approachable. I've met Barbara Morrison in Long Beach after a concert; she was so warm and willingly autographed the CD I had just purchased. I am a fan for life.
Wonderful!! Thank you. Ray Bryant is one of my all time favorite jazz piano players. This video contains "Slow Freight" at about 14:14. His own composition. Perfect jazz/blues.
Thank you! I recognised this, just couldn't place it. Stefan Ulbricht is where I heard Slow Freight. And Chris Conz's version of In The Back Room is how I found Ray Bryant😀
No Words in any language could describe the Magnificance I just saw and heard from Maestro Ray Bryant! May he RIP, Music and surrounded by the Angel's and all the other Greats who have gone before him! Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum are still the most greatest jazz pianist to ever live on earth to date! They are the Gold Standard! I'm thinking Ray Bryant is third, if I had the unfortunate task of rating the three of them! I thoroughly enjoyed Ray Bryant! Thanks for Sharing!
Tatum wasn't jazz this man is. Tatum couldn't touch Ray in this department. This man is a pianist, Tatum was a pyrotechnic piano player at piano's best and that about sums it up. Don't compare sir silliness when you're clearly uneducated in such matters...
amazing piano master. thank you so much jjazzhistory! 27:12 *Good Morning Heartache: sweet* Good morning heartache You old gloomy sight Good morning heartache Thought we said goodbye last night I turned and tossed until It seems you we have gone But here you are with the dawn Wish I forget you But you're here to stay It seems I met you When my love went away Now everyday I stop I'm saying to you Good morning heartache what's new Stop haunting me now Can't shake you nohow Just leave me alone I've got those Monday blues Straight to Sunday blues Good morning heartache Here we go again Good morning heartache You're the one Who knows me well Might as well get use to you Hanging around Good morning heartache Sit down Stop haunting me now Can't shake you nohow Just leave me alone I've got those Monday blues Straight to Sunday blues Good morning heartache Here we go again Good morning heartache You're the one Who knows me well Might as well get use to you Hanging around Good morning heartache Sit down [by Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene H Padellan]
MUSICAL MEMORIAL: PIANIST RAY BRYANT DIED ON THIS DAY, JUNE 2, 2011, AT THE AGE OF 79 AFTER SUFFERING FROM A LONG ILLNESS. HE WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 24, 1931. MAY RAY BRYANT REST IN HARMONY. FOR MORE INFO AND MEMORIALS, PLEASE JOIN MY GROUP AND VIEW MY RU-vid PAGE: TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS 1950'S AND BEYOND. FACE BOOK PAGE: TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS. THANK YOU.
