Monthly Archives: August, 2008
Dick Hyman’s Lessons on YouTube
Dick Hyman is a tremendous chameleon of a jazz pianist as well as a visionary jazz educator. His conception of piano playing from the Romantic era through the mid-20th Century is phenomenal, and he is able to demonstrate with clarity and panache many of the techniques of the great jazz musicians. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lM-77RvpJf0[/youtube] All his videos [...]
Chopin’s Scherzo No.2 in Bb minor / Db Major, Op.31
This fantastically entertaining chestnut has been keeping me happily occupied for the last month or so after I enjoyed a friend’s very capable study of it. Chopin wrote four wildly popular scherzos, and this particular piece is precariously perched on a narrow margin between popularity and triteness. It remains however clear that this work has [...]
