Kurts high notes//chords and voicings make me feel like I'm in the future at a drive in movie with in n out hamburgers with spirit family partying

@marinooliveira4204

3 ай бұрын

That's the most beautiful shit i read today

All star band! Kurt is incredible

Just look at Kurt. He absorbes himself in what is happening, eyes closed, gently swaying. So into the groove

You said it! Brad, Kurt, Larry, Joshua and Ali. Just fantastic. Brad and Kurt have taken music to new heights for me!

What a band! All amazing musicians/composers that are keeping it alive. And a psychedelic cow to boot!

Some motivic and harmonic analysis of Brad Mehldau's cadenza on "Use of Light": The cadenza is woven from an arpeggiated shape that implies mostly maj7b9#11 chords. The first chord he arpeggiates is an implied Bbmaj6/7b9#11 (the notes in order they're played: Bb G A D E A B), the next arpeggiation is an implied Dmaj6/7b9#11 (the notes in order they're played: D A B F# G# C# Eb) and then an implied Emaj6/7b9#11 (the notes in order they're played: E G# B C# G# A# D# F). Notice how the last four notes are always the same shape (two major seconds separated by a perfect fourth)? Well, at first, he uses this shape on top of the first to outline the maj7b9 sound while emphasising the b9 at the end of each arpeggiation but then he abstracts further by transposing the shape in more unusual ways. Example: using the aforementioned shape like so- shape descending from Eb in right hand and then shape descending from D in left hand with the sustain pedal held down all the while. But still, this could be interpreted harmonically as Gb6sus2 on F6sus2. That's the beauty of this cadenza really, its motivic cohesiveness remains no matter how far he abstracts the central harmonic concept (maj7b9#11s). The cadenza also demonstrates to improvising musicians that improvisation can be grounded in essentially simple things, the task is to transfer knowledge of these into more complex contexts as Mehldau has done here.

@unoaotroa

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Parker Wow! This is such a comprehensible explanation on the sound Brad is creating in the intro, but I have two questions roaming in my head. Is there any specific reason for notating this note pattern as 'maj6/7b9#11', opposed to 'maj7b9#11/13'? And, could you please elaborate a bit more on why this could also be interpreted as Gb6sus2 on F6sus2? Don't you mean Gb6sus2 on Esus(b2)?

@UkuleleAversion

7 жыл бұрын

Your notation for the pattern is probably better; I just like to think of the 13th as a 6th in this case. In answer to your second question, I didn't notate that instance of chromatic reiteration and so I think you've read one of the patterns that I did notate and assumed that that was what I meant when I said, "Gb6sus2 on F6sus2". I'm gratified that you understood my analysis, I get depressed when I can't talk to anyone about this kind of stuff.

@unoaotroa

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Parker Tom Parker You should be proud mate, I'm by no means an expert in harmonic analysis but yours was very easy to comprehend. Please keep sharing your knowledge, I'm almosts sure there are other people out there who can relate to it! Is there any music scene in your locality?

@UkuleleAversion

7 жыл бұрын

There is a music scene here in Sydney but it isn't great for jazz.

@unoaotroa

7 жыл бұрын

Tom Parker Too bad, but I'm sure my city is no better in that regard. There are maybe 7 jazz acts where I live and there aren't more than 20 people in the audience at every show. Sure Sydney is better than that, don't you think? (:

Commentaar, overmoedig om hier iets over te zeggen.Geniaal.

Man, Brad continues to impress me with his improvisational creativity. He can go anywhere! C.G.T. Ukiah, CA

@Bebopopotamus

7 жыл бұрын

Charles Tresca Hey Ukiah! Eureka here.

@TimMirth

6 жыл бұрын

For real

What a master piece!

The Lick 11:39 LOL Btw, thanks for posting. Brad Mehldau and Kurt Rosenwinkel are my favorite musicians. Actually, I love all the people is this group.

@platon2542

3 жыл бұрын

AHAHAHA how did you even catch that

He does not even look at the frets. He FEELS the next. Only a very few guitarists have that ability

I once read in an interview with Kurt, that he noticed, Brad was playing a lot of maj7b9 stuff in the intro

@UkuleleAversion

7 жыл бұрын

That's true, shows how awesome Kurt's aural recognition is. I wonder how much Brad prepared this cadenza.

I love this composition

this was a great concert!

Una genialida fuera de serie

what a beautiful tune. thanks for posting.

What a pianist !!!!

Oh and the coolest thing about that chord (maj7#11) is that it's the main chord from the Simpsons theme!

@marinooliveira4204

3 ай бұрын

No, the simpsons is a Dominant 7#11

Best of the best

9:45 so beautiful!

awesome of course. But the most awesome thing is the cow on the background. XD

All. Of. Them.

For the intro? It isn't one scale, he's playing through a load of different changes. He used lydian and lydian dominant scales in a lot of places.

is the full concert on youtube?

Wow! Brad and Kurt!

why the audiende is so "blue"? :D...anyway..kurt is one of the best new composers..

Supergroup.

jazz-burn

so cool, but what scale is that on the piano?

what would the name of the drum feel be called?

@AdebayoFayemi

9 жыл бұрын

Even 8th's

transcribe it :)

Why the lags?

A lot of Ligeti going down !

;)

9:27 tf are you doing ali jackson

Some wholetone some diminished all based on b flat maj7 #11/d maj7...kinda

If anyone knows why Kurt seems to me like an extinct star since Star of jupiter, I would be interested in understanding. Pat metheny and scofield, seem much less ephemeral... they are old suns...

guess the weather was bad, and so the organizators gave these cheap raincoats to the people...