MARTINIQUE | Stephanie Trick & Paolo Alderighi
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- Опубликовано: 14 окт 2024
- Thomas “Fats” Waller wrote the score for a successful musical in 1943 called “Early to Bed.” This was the first Broadway musical with an almost all-white cast and music by an African-American composer. The story is set on the island of Martinique. Fats was very proud of the music he wrote for this production and it was one of the last things he did in his short but very full life. Some of the songs he wrote “Early to Bed” include “This Is So Nice (It Must Be Illegal),” “Slightly Less Than Wonderful,” “There’s a Man in My Life,” and a tune with a Latin tinge that shows his versatility and multifaceted nature, “Martinique.”
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Thank you so much for watching! ✨
Ha ha ha very entertaining, outstanding!
Cute! Catchy! So well done!
Thank you for introducing me to this Waller, which I had never heard!
You two keep surprising me with not only with your piano skills, but your knowledge and love of music and past geniuses. I was not aware of this piece or the history behind it. It seems that the final verdict on the veracity of greatness of a musician and music is whether it stands the test of time.....Fats Waller's work obviously stands up....and what you two are creating will also....I truly believe.
Fat Waller's might be responsible for me playing the piano as i first heard him in 1998 on an American Jazz 3 CDs box in a public library where his song " I have no one" left me bewildered and stunned by how its continuous story like musical flowed from beginning to end without a single bar that felt like a filling. I was beyond impressed, i was transported. That song stayed in my mind for years as a natural musical composition written like a letter that transported me to the 1930's. I remember staying in a Chicago Youth hostel a winter during a snow storm, the building huge with high ceilings was historical and it had a piano and i could feel the atmosphere of 1930 jazz piano. Because of that song i later picked up the classical guitar and then the piano and I have been playing the piano ever since. That song is so well written that i sometimes think mistakenly that it has lyrics and then remember it's just an instrumental piece.
Another delight delivered with great panache. But.. I keep repeating myself. Your every interpretation is a gem! 👏👏👏💐❗️
I have just returned from meeting you after your concert in Ruston this evening. You two are as charming as you are talented. Thank you for sharing your gifts… 🎹😇♥️
Stephanie & Paulo, we are in Westport, CT visiting our daughter and grandchildren and all of them love your music!
What a really beautiful arrangement of Martinique you compiled! Despite the tremendous complexity, and great demands on your every facet of your musical abilities and timing, you played with such art and feeling!! Thank you much, Stephanie and Paolo!😊😊
Thank you for your kind words, Alan!!
Excellent arrangement and performance. Well done.
WOW another absolutely stunning performance the way the two of you make it look easy a pure joy to listen to
Delightfully fresh!
Wow, this is one of my greatest favorites! Beautiful arrangement and interpretation as always, Stephanie and Paolo!
Thank you so much Riccardo! 🙏🏻🙏🏻
Hello from the UK. On Saturday I was listening to a programme called Jazz Record Requests on BBC radio 3 a station that specialises in classical and other specialist music. This hour long show features the greatest recordings this week by Ella, Art Blakey, Muggsy Spanair. I wanted to let you know that the first track they played was Stephanie's 2020 recording of JP Johnson's Keep Off the Grass. Hope that the BBC remembers to pay royalty lol !
Beautiful vibe and a unique skills by both, thanks ✨👋
I didn’t know this one! Simply delicious. :)
Brava how inspiring again!
A new tune for me, your abilities are beyond belief, truly remarkable. Thank you so much.
Bravooooooo…superb as always ..
Just beautiful! Like magic how you make Fats sound so good!
super! 😀👍👏👏
I can't believe that I never knew about this piece or indeed this musical and it sounds quite different from the better known Fats Waller stuff. I can't help but wonder how Waller would have developed his music had he lived longer. Sadly his life style meant that he would inevitably burn out when young! Nice arrangement as always
I love the fabulous spin you two put in your arrangements.
I never heard that before and that's an amazing arrangement too! Just goes to show what a great musician Fat's was. Now I want to hear the other songs! 🙂
Just heard this splendid rendition at 1:40 Pacific Standard time. Apparently it's Hot Off the Press. And speaking of "hot" it really sizzles. Congrats to you both.
Thanks!! I really love your version of that song!! Have I ever told you two just how fantastic you are!!!😘
Martinique is a French department, its people are black but they are actually mixed with European blood and culturally have a strong European side. Fat Waller was also not purely of African blood, he was mixed, and he knew it. Maybe it's one reason he liked Martinique he could feel the exotism and the mix of cultures. By the way Martinique makes the best Rhum Agricole in the world especially for cooking recipes or for fruit punches. Make sure it is labelled "Rhum Agricole", it's a different distillation process than all the Caribbean English islands Rhum big brands that are hard and lack the fruitiness.
Where does she get all those fabulous clothes?
Milano!
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Actually the tune was written by Wilbur de Paris in the 1950's
What fun! How did you learn all that? When Paolo has an accompaniment part, it should be more subdued. When all four hands are playing at the same dynamic level all the time, the music can sound like undifferentiated clatter. You're great, but you need more contrast, nuance and balance.
I didn’t know this one! Simply delicious. :)