The Finger Breaker (Jelly Roll) played by Stephanie Trick 

She is an incredible talent. I love her playing!

this song was in legend of 1900!

When she starts pounding away with the left hand I lose it LOL. Wonderful

Absolutely Amazing. The girl must have a few invisible fingers that make this performance possible! Thanks for this post! 5 STARS! RagJazzMonkey Tom Warner

One of the most astonishing piano performances I've ever heard in 40 years of pursuing this line of music. I must say that even the great Jelly Roll himself would have taken his hat off for this, which is near perfect and played at a faster tempo than Morton's main version. I'm in awe...

Ms. Trick has a bag full of tricks. She is delightful and this was a joy to hear live!

She's awesome!!

could listen to her all day and wish I had practised when I had the chance.

Stephanie...BEST Stride pianist nowadays mein!!!!!

Stephanie just gets better all the time

Lovely pianist, Im Impressed with this difficult number!!

Brilliant, she is absolutely brilliant.

Please don't break your fingers Stephanie !! They are precious.

loving the outfit!!!

RU-vid's Piano Queen. Nothing less.

damn girl! keep on playing!

oh i remember this it was on the movie: the legend of 1900

Wow! Amazing!

....the "scarbo" of jazz pianists....amazing!!

Incredible!!!

You are Incredible !

I'm in love.

Alors là, j'ai un respect immense pour cette demoiselle.

Stephanie must be one of the top players in USA. She's 21 here. I always thought she was alot younger because she look like a teenager here.

Really, really good!

Que linda vc é e com seta habilidade no piano, é sinal de grande trabalho e dom musical parabens

wow! what talent! very good!

Amazing!

Now this is amazing ^^ Uff...I wanna play like her

I'm glad. Well for her.

Bravissima!!! World class!!

What a delight! Keep it up!!

She's older than I thought. She was born in 1986, so she's 22 now and was 21 at the time of this video. A bit of news: Stephanie will be performing this weekend in Boswil, Switzerland, at the Stride & Swing Piano Summit. And of course, she'll be at the 2008 West Coast Ragtime Festival in Sacramento next month.

You can actually see the person with the horn honking it if you look up the video called "Brad Kay and Janet Klein, Automobile song". It's a funny song from the earliest days of the automobile too. (There were a lot of songs that suggested that automobiles were terrible, infernal machines; this one suggests that automobile owners were just as bad.)

amazing!

Fingerbreaker?It breaks my heart to hear it played at such speed and to such perfection.She is truly a wonderful pianiste.A joy to listen to and to behold!What a a pleasure.What has Missouri done to earn this?

WOW!!!!

At the time of this recording, she was 21.

Wow! Nicely done.

For free is unlikely as Keepr 1st said. But you can get an exact transcription of what Morton played (reproduced fairly closely by this lady) in a book by James Dapogny (the reference is in the wikipedia page for Jelly Roll)

This girl can really play stride with the feeling of ragtime, which is what Jelly intended.

It's not how fast it's played. This girl isn't the fastest I've heard ( Excellent. This girl has the feel of ragtime down pat!

GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

amazing O_O

She's got supernatural hands. Unbelievably superb.

"B R I L L I A N T" I second that! Knock your socks off! RagJazzmonkey Tom Warner

Pity it's played on such a 'tinny' piano, even though many might argue it lends some 'authenticity'. Great playing of a REALLY difficult piece. Well done.

Yes, I agree!

Stephanie now has a web site with information about her CDs and when her next performances will be. A link has been added to the description of this video (stephanietrick with a dotcom at the end). She also now has a RU-vid account, "stephtrick".

Impresive

O M G

good song cinè

And she needs a web site or something so people can find out where she's performing or how to get recordings!

Clapping with a bike horn?!? (at the very end)

I've had comments in many languages over the years, but yours is the first in Mongolian! Neat!

My dad can stride faster than anybody I've ever seen/met

At the time of this video, she was 21.

❤️

I don't think a piece with this title can be played "too fast" as long as you play it cleanly. The point of it is to play it as fast as you can.

I like how every uploader comment dissed the one that he was responding to hahaha

Not sure... 18 or 19 now I think. She was part of the Youth Concert at that festival, but also was listed among "Performers 18-25" which suggests she was 18... but she's been an undergraduate since at least 2006 and is expected to graduate college in 2009. I've never actually asked her age nor recall anyone mentioning it.

Well, ragtime music was/is often called "intoxicating"!

Does anybody knows/have the music sheet of this piece I need it for my examination

So it should, since that is the time period it came from, though this tune is from quite a bit later -- 1938.

Well, this festival happens every November, and Stephanie has become a fixture, so it's likely she'll be there again this year. You have time to plan! She'll probably be playing at the Scott Joplin Ragtime Festival in Sedalia too, since she lives in Missouri. That festival happens the first weekend of June. There's time to plan!

not bad for her age... really cool

Dear Stephanie! Would you like to merry me? Andy.

lol this is what morton plays in the legend of 1900 XD

This is just great. Better than Dick Hyman's (amazing) version, because her time feel is better. She's got a very solid underlying rhythm, she's not rushing at all, and her sound is very rich and deep. Awesome playing. YOU GO, WOMAN!!!

bloody hell! best performance of this piece on here! [and I've just sat through quite a few!!!] very impressive! how old is she?

@Keeper1st She is Alien D:

sheni mona var dgeidan :D

@MsCaleb79 Uh, no. She's from St Louis, Missouri.

oh...

Yep, that's her bowler.

Supernatural

@ASirensSoliloquy art tatum has the rcon

That's a 9-foot Yamaha. It's definitely not a tinny piano. The camera only recorded audio at 11 kHz though. That's what makes it sound a bit weak.

Having been published in 1938, and thanks to the Bono Bill that froze the passing of anything into the public domain at the year 1923, the sheet music for this is still under copyright, so alas, you're not likely to find it available for free, even though music this old isn't popular enough anymore for anyone to attempt to make money off of it. Sheet music from the '20s and '30s largely must be passed around from person to person. I don't have the music, so can't let you "borrow" it...

The only other person who approaches the speed of Dick Hyman's version.

@NinjaDaddy She's American.

That was awesome ! I would have liked it even better if it was played a bit slower but it was great nonetheless.

how old is she? that must have took ages!

ive uploaded dick hymans version after not being able to find, have to say this isnt very far away from perfect

This is really just an exhibition piece. You must appreciate the lightning hands and precision. But most great pianists can do this piece. I don't consider this to be music. It is finger gymnastics calculated to impress the uninitiated. Look at some of Stephanie's other posts to see her real talent.

No swing but the execution is perfect, clean

She recently became engaged.

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She got them all right, But no swing in it.

Hehe :D

I guess she is just full of TRICKS ;p

I hope I won't get struck by lightening if I say that this version is a bit better than JRM's. Her technique is at least at the same level, and she wisely changes it towards the end where he overdoes the glissando thing. This doesn't mean she is necessarily a better pianist than he was. He never played the same piece the same way twice, so you never know what he would have done if he could play it now.

Why doesn't she perform any Tatum pieces?

Quanto Cristo sei bravaa?? Magari sapessi suonare io il pianoforte!!!

Stephanie Trick plays at a high level, usually only certain people can play. Select your level of piano!: 1. Easy 2. Medium 3. Hard 4. Asian I guess stephanie tried it the asian way...

@MCCXK120 you gotta be kidding, his "psudo-arrangement" is playing 1320401234040 notes nothing to do with the real piece, there are "arrangements" and things out of context entirely. This is a marvelous performance of THE PIECE. Dick Hyman is a Pro Pianist, but this piece "played" by him has nothing to do with the real piece.

Her performance is better than Jelly himself!

See Dick Hyman's version- better by a country mile.

Is she married? There's one place opened here :D

I think it's way too fast, but still really well played.