There's only one word to describe the distinctive piano playing of Ray Bryant 'SOLID' His recordings are treasured and he is greatly missed!

@BeachProphet2011

Жыл бұрын

The happiest blues piano player.

Wonderful, the great Ray, my favourite pianoman since 65 years! Believe it or not, I´m 79 and bought my first RB-album on CHESS around 1960.

Els temes que va tocar en Ray: Here's what Ray played: 0:12 Take the A train 3:35 Willow weep for me 10:36 Satin doll 14:12 Slow freight 20:03 Moanin' 23:44 Liebestraum boogie 27:12 Good morning heartache 31:36 The impossible rag 33:10 After hours 36:42 Sometimes I feel like a motherless child 41:42 St. Louis blues 47:23 Little Susie

I cannot get tired of Ray Bryant's artistry. His blues piano is particularly wonderful.

It's so refreshing to hear and see a master like Ray Bryant playing in his inimitable blues-rooted, two fisted style after hearing so many younger artist trying "taking jazz to another level" or bring "contemporary world music" into it or something like that Thanks for sharing!

@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out

6 жыл бұрын

When I read a comment like yours, I think of Teddy Wilson in interviews telling how piano players had to create dance music, with a trio, quartet, or even solo. Add that to the high standards and absolute necessity of "feeling and swing" in gospel church music, and it's easy to figure out that, if you could not create a groove, a swing, a toe tapping , head bopping, make you want to get and dance rhythm, you would not find work as an early jazz musician.(30's 40's, maybe into the 60's) Trane, Mingus, Cannonball, Bird, even Bill Evans had to at least play "casuals" and create and maintain a fox trot, or cha cha, and please, yes, a swing that you could lindy hop to, or for god sakes, a ballad a couple could could sway to. That's what's missing. Excuse me, but even if it don't make you want to dance, it aint music. It certainly aint jazz. Even Coltrane at his most extreme avant grade edge had a pulse you could feel. Jazz in the hands of most kids today, i can't feel it, it aint funky, it aint jazzy. It's overhyped shiny, polished up technical exercises and memorized solos and theory and ironically delivered and flavored, some retro flavor of the day bullshit.Jazz in these kids hands, sorry, It aint got a PULSE, brother. It's gone from critical to comatose, to dead. It is too cerebral, it is taught to be played way up in one's head, instead of in the gut. okay i'm done.

@sandraeckelhofer

6 жыл бұрын

wow! marktarmannpiano a bit too intense? I mean, let's not freak the kids out ;) they're into jazz that's a good start, the way I see it

@SlimDavenport

5 жыл бұрын

Amen

@germansurdey6525

3 жыл бұрын

@@MarkTarmannPianoCheck_it_out i couldn't agree more ! Many thanks. Today's ( and from the 80s) jazz is Berklee school jazz. Taught but NOT felt. it is boring. Wynton Marsalis tried to revive it. He succeeded up to a point. I like his Lincoln Center Big Band. Ray Bryant was one of my very favorit4 piano players. He had that bluesy feeling and the swing. Everything he did was great.

He can make the piano sound like a big band. Amazing.

Ray Bryant is my go to musican these days, and a lot of his work is available , thank goodness!

I think this is a wonderful video of Mr. Bryant tickling the ivories. I wish I'd learned about him when he was still with us. Hopefully, he's doing his thing in Heaven.

@liesschot233

8 жыл бұрын

+Pam Evans Hi Pam, Reading your words brought back a memory I'll be happy to share. In summer 2007 (?) I managed to sea and hear mr. Bryant play in an intimate setting at the North Sea Jazz festival in the Hague. He was an aged artist at the time but performed like a" klavierleeuw" (piano lion) as we say in dutch. On his way back from stage he suddenly stood before me. Didn't hesitate for a second.. I shook his hand: "Mr. Bryant, thank you for the music !". He hold my hand for a while and said looking up, with a kind of perfect shy, sweet smile : "My Pleasure !" Didn't wash my hand for days.. Wherever he might be; I'm sure he's been playing right on, Happy holidays from Holland

@pamevans318

8 жыл бұрын

+lies schot How lovely for you, Lies. Thank you for sharing your experience with me. It's wonderful when some performers are approachable. I've met Barbara Morrison in Long Beach after a concert; she was so warm and willingly autographed the CD I had just purchased. I am a fan for life.

@sandraeckelhofer

6 жыл бұрын

lies schot how sweet ^_^ lovit

Thank you for uploading. One of my favorite pianists ! 👍😊

@akeeedmead6858

5 жыл бұрын

Ray speaks to the heart and soul with his music. Really enjoyable.

Better than coffee! Fabulous early morning wake up!

Un maitre. J'ai toujours un vinyl acheté en 1962 : j'adore !

beautiful...

Wonderful!! Thank you. Ray Bryant is one of my all time favorite jazz piano players. This video contains "Slow Freight" at about 14:14. His own composition. Perfect jazz/blues.

@jrgoodland

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I recognised this, just couldn't place it. Stefan Ulbricht is where I heard Slow Freight. And Chris Conz's version of In The Back Room is how I found Ray Bryant😀

All time beautiful and so right

No Words in any language could describe the Magnificance I just saw and heard from Maestro Ray Bryant! May he RIP, Music and surrounded by the Angel's and all the other Greats who have gone before him! Oscar Peterson and Art Tatum are still the most greatest jazz pianist to ever live on earth to date! They are the Gold Standard! I'm thinking Ray Bryant is third, if I had the unfortunate task of rating the three of them! I thoroughly enjoyed Ray Bryant! Thanks for Sharing!

@juniperwoodgreen4090

3 жыл бұрын

Nah, blah...

@juniperwoodgreen4090

3 жыл бұрын

Tatum wasn't jazz this man is. Tatum couldn't touch Ray in this department. This man is a pianist, Tatum was a pyrotechnic piano player at piano's best and that about sums it up. Don't compare sir silliness when you're clearly uneducated in such matters...

brilliant. i really love his style.

Wow, great style, enjoy his playing very much!

Sheer class!

Ray always just hits the spot. He brings this atheist some spirituality.

otherworldly blues I envy the talent so much.

Damn, the man can bring it… Love this.

What a player!

Thank You I was privileged to see Ray Bryant in the UK

I just discovered this pianist. What a great technique. I love that

Fabulous Ray Bryant ! Thank You !

Thank you for such brillant performance.

Great solo piano version of "Good Morning Heartache". Thanks.

Thank You Much for Sharing! Piano Playng At Its Finest! Other Worldly!

Just heard of him via Pandora track, and loving this! What a master solo pianist.

This is great. Thanks for posting it.

@jjazzhistory6997

9 жыл бұрын

Len Bryant you are wellcome

@nickvledder

Жыл бұрын

You must be a relative of Ray, aren't you? 😀

Terrific - one of the most soulful on the piano - every

Brilliant

23:50 terrific Liszt's boogie

Excellent

Great !!!!!!

Amazing

gran pianista¡ nunca le dieron el lugar que merecia. por suerte compre el primer disco de ray en la decada del 80.

GOOD OLD SOULFULPIANO PLAYING.

amazing piano master. thank you so much jjazzhistory! 27:12 *Good Morning Heartache: sweet* Good morning heartache You old gloomy sight Good morning heartache Thought we said goodbye last night I turned and tossed until It seems you we have gone But here you are with the dawn Wish I forget you But you're here to stay It seems I met you When my love went away Now everyday I stop I'm saying to you Good morning heartache what's new Stop haunting me now Can't shake you nohow Just leave me alone I've got those Monday blues Straight to Sunday blues Good morning heartache Here we go again Good morning heartache You're the one Who knows me well Might as well get use to you Hanging around Good morning heartache Sit down Stop haunting me now Can't shake you nohow Just leave me alone I've got those Monday blues Straight to Sunday blues Good morning heartache Here we go again Good morning heartache You're the one Who knows me well Might as well get use to you Hanging around Good morning heartache Sit down [by Ervin Drake, Dan Fisher, Irene H Padellan]

Super

maestro del blues

I sense that much of this is on his "Somewhere in France" release. What a master!

@kennethhodges3187

5 жыл бұрын

I am told that this was recorded in Barcelona in 1986

I love the kind of blues that black people does, specially from Ray Braynt.

The song at 36:42 is "Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child." I sang it as a solo in HS :)

MUSICAL MEMORIAL: PIANIST RAY BRYANT DIED ON THIS DAY, JUNE 2, 2011, AT THE AGE OF 79 AFTER SUFFERING FROM A LONG ILLNESS. HE WAS BORN ON DECEMBER 24, 1931. MAY RAY BRYANT REST IN HARMONY. FOR MORE INFO AND MEMORIALS, PLEASE JOIN MY GROUP AND VIEW MY KZread PAGE: TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS 1950'S AND BEYOND. FACE BOOK PAGE: TONY JAMS MUSICAL MEMORIALS. THANK YOU.

Does anyone know maybe where this was taken?

@kennethhodges3187

5 жыл бұрын

I acquired this on tape years ago and was told that it was recorded in 1986 in Barcelona

Please, what is the title of the tune (well known, I think) that begins at 36:45 ?

@pauletheridge2412

7 жыл бұрын

"Sometimes I feel like a motherless child" is the tunes title.

What's the name of tune at 27:12?

@Danielvanderpoll

8 жыл бұрын

"Good Morning Heartache"

Holy fuck his hands make even Art Tatum's look dwarfish...

Anyone know the name of the video introduction song?

@frederickhill7181

2 жыл бұрын

Take the A-Train by Billy Strayhorn. It was Duke Ellington's theme from 1940.