Brad Mehldau - My Favorite Things @ Jazz a Vienne 2010
@josiah566
2 years ago
Something that continues to impress me about him is that he never shies away from the bottom half to the keyboard. It's a place a lot of people (or just I) tend to avoid because it's easy to muddy and it's hard to hear the nice tensions you can create with closed voicings but Joey navigates it PERFECTLY. He redistributes tensio... See more
2 years ago
Something that continues to impress me about him is that he never shies away from the bottom half to the keyboard. It's a place a lot of people (or just I) tend to avoid because it's easy to muddy and it's hard to hear the nice tensions you can create with closed voicings but Joey navigates it PERFECTLY. He redistributes tensio... See more
Mk Mnn • Joey Alexander - Jazz at Lincoln Center Gala - 2014
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Jazz piano prodigy Joey Alexander playing Round Midnight at Lincoln Center Gala 2014 (NYC)
Search YouTube for “Best of Liszt” (Halidon Music):
Ferriss, Timothy • Tools of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Seycara | Alice in Paris! [Full Album]
youtu.be“Everyday” by Carly Comando “The Aviators” by Helen Jane Long “Divenire” by Ludovico Einaudi “Mad World” by Michael Andrews and Gary Jules “Festival” by Sigur Rós
Timothy Ferriss • Tribe of Mentors: Short Life Advice from the Best in the World
Listening to a classical composition from 1957 (The American Scene, by William Grant), and it really brings a beautiful and eerie moo around existence, childhood, society, and nature. It’s a frame-breaker.
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“The concert(s) of the Argentinian pianist Martha Argerich. She is just superhuman. She is quite elderly now, but she still plays. She’s coming to the BBC Proms this year. She has cult status in our world.” TF: I now routinely listen to her. To have your mind explode, search “Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto No 1 FULL Argerich Charles Dutoit” and check o
... See moreTimothy Ferriss • Tools Of Titans: The Tactics, Routines, and Habits of Billionaires, Icons, and World-Class Performers
Listen to Count Basie’s recording of “Li’l Darlin’” if you want to hear how this is done at a very high level of virtuosity.