Dill Pickle Rag on three pianos
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- Опубликовано: 6 сен 2024
- Tom Brier, Patrick Aranda and Frederick Hodges play Charles L. Johnson's Dill Pickles Rag. Hilarious ending - several false finishes as the pianists try and play the final bars faster than each other - very funny.
Let's not forget also that Tom had been up until 3 a.m. the previous night (at one time watching a four-piano version of Dill Pickles!). On Sunday, after being up until 4 a.m., he had a set with the Raspberries on a piano that was a semitone flat, so he had to read the music but play in a key a half-step higher than written, on the fly. It was pretty amazing.
I love Tom brier, I really hope he fully recovers because he played the piano so well!
Ok that is crazy!
Speaking as a fellow musician, that is a phenomenal level of ability and one possessed by few musicians , past or present.
This video is excellent with great (for the day) visual quality and especially audio quality. It is especially great to hear almost all of what Tom is ACTUALLY playing, including the wonderful authentic sounding countermelodies and fills that he adds on the fly. Truly remarkable duet playing.
Most of the other ragtime pianists at today's festivals aren't really trained or schooled in duet piano playing, and only really know how to play solo, and so just bash/flail away noisily when paired together in duo-sets.
Tom is a major exception, where he would find the things that needed adding to a piece of music (if any) and put those in at an appropriate dynamic level to match, play under or over the other pianist, depending upon who had the lead.
You could just play the tune as written from the sheet music, and if you played it accurately, Tom could fill in the other parts and flesh it out, and really make it sound stupendous.
That's what he did with Nan Bostick on their two duet albums.
Frederick also excels at duet playing, but in my opinion (coming from myself, the son of a world famous jazz musician who has grown up hearing jazz legends), his gift for improvisation is not nearly so supernatural or I would say genuis-level as Tom's.
Practically no other living person I know could IMPROVISE an authentic, period-appropriate ragtime piano ACCOMPANIMENT or secundo part, as Tom can. Especially with that level of musicality and feeling.
My Dad's best musician friends certainly are/were in that level, or above, BUT with later styles of music.
Not 1 out of 100 of them could do this either, because their entire skillset/field of interest and study is with different and later music genres.
Had some of them applied themselves to studying this music as seriously and (here's the important word) REVERENTLY as Tom, doubtless many of them would also be able to do this, of course in their own delightful individual styles.
I like how Tom and Patrick are so animated when they play and how Frederick is so stiff and perfect about everything hahaha, not a note misplaced!
Hey have you done a transcription of this yet?
@@fantasiedepiano4523 Unfortunately I think this is beyond me and my transcribing algorithm xD I've tried a piano duet by Brier and Foundring, it would take well over 3 hours just to clean out excess notes!
@@PiotrBarcz no prob, just wondering.
Tom was/is amazing in being able to be animated AND precise at the same time!
@@andrewbarrett1537 Yeah I know, but compared to Hodges both him and Aranda look a bit more loose when playing, Frederick seems like he has the whole performance laid out in his mind before he even starts playing xD
I love this, thank you for sharing. Even though my comment is going on 11 years into the future, it still brings me great joy seeing Tom enjoy what he loves most, music. Again, thank you. I really enjoyed this entire video from start to finish. Incredible work by all three pianists.
I love the way tom "bounces" when he plays and the keys do the same and as do I!
The end is so ridiculously funny :D
What a great presentation by these three wonderful musicians! What a spectacular ending!
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...Are we not going to talk about this amazing roll up AND back down the piano? That's not something you see everyone do.
That’s just a standard glissando in C, but he does play it flawlessly.
This is a rare sight of Tom from *inside* the piano!
Love this!!
This video is absolutely amazing!!!! I can't even begin to imagine how amazing it would have been to see this in person!!
I went to a couple of these sets various years and yes the atmosphere was electrifying
Spettacolare!!
I believe its over 200 rags and counting
the people who dislike probably don't like the great music
Different angle of the exact same piece: ruclips.net/video/EHtZC1WZvas/видео.html
Playing rag to fast