One of the greatest pianists of the 20th century has surprisingly almost no presence on youtube, so I thought I'd contribute this song. This track is from the album "Formidable...!", I highly recommend it...
According to jazz critic Leonard Feather, "Peiffer is amazing. I cant recall any jazz pianist except Art Tatum blessed with such mastery." He expressed the opinion that Peiffer was, in many respects, the greatest living jazz pianist.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgVC_6_p3Hk
First "transcription" vid in a year, and what better choice than combining the two great stride pianists of the 20th century, Fats Waller and Art Tatum.
sorry about the poor audio...my nice mike screwed up when I recorded this, so I had to go with the mike on the camera--I'd try to record it again, but eh...I find that turning the volume down helps reduce the nastiness.
Although I only started committing this to memory about 5 days ago, I've been studying this piece for about 2 years--as well as hundreds of others by Tatum, Waller, Teddy Wilson, Oscar Peterson, Billy Taylor, Bud Powell, etc--so when I feel up to the challenge, I pick from that repertoire one that I'm more familiar with and that I feel will be easy to memorize, and voila!
happy new year everyone
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E3AFpJJD_pQ