About This Song
"Birdland" is a jazz-fusion instrumental composition written by keyboardist Joe Zawinul of Weather Report. The piece made its debut on Weather Report’s 1977 studio album, Heavy Weather. With Birdland at the helm of the album, the song received awards, as well as ranking high on Billboard charts. It became a jazz standard, and entered the set lists of other artists including Buddy Rich, Maynard Ferguson’s big band, The Manhattan Transfer (whose version added lyrics by Jon Hendricks), Quincy Jones, Niacin and The String Cheese Incident.
The first number of Heavy Weather where" Bird Rand" is written by keyboard player Joe Zawinul in Weather Report and is the 8th released album in 1977. This album gets album of the year of jazz in 1977. They're also a bassist and the 2nd album with which Jaco Pastrious participated. "Bird Rand" puts commercial success back and has the charm I don't have in a typical instrumental song.
This melody of Bird Rand was born taking the song recorded in 1 number of the album of an announcement "Zawinul" in 1971 and the part of the live performance as "Doctor Honoris Causa (intention of an honor doctorate)" as a start. Before Jacquot joined a band, live recording by a performance only by a pure keyboard was already recorded already, indeed the features of "Bird Rand" are picking "and" performance by harmonics with fret lessness by Jaco Pastors and a base for listening to a performance of an album and understanding.
Jazz Club Birdland
"Birdland" marked the peak of Weather Report's commercial career with the release of Heavy Weather. With the addition of Jaco Pastorius, the band was able to push its music to the “height of its popularity”, and with that came "Birdland." Weather Report's most commercially successful composition, "Birdland" served as a tribute to the New York jazz club on 52nd street that housed many famous jazz musicians. The song was also named in honor of the man after whom the club was named, Charlie Parker, the ‘Bird’ himself. It was this club, that he frequented almost daily, that inspired Zawinul to write the song. Looking back, Zawinul claimed, “The old Birdland was the most important place in my life.” (From Wikipedia Jan.03.2016)
How to play " Birdland"
Now, a base is a main song for this song. The first harmonics is beautiful. A pop theme can be written only in ZABINURU catchily. It's very difficult because of the height of its percentage of completion to break a song of Weather Report. Because a chord is complicated like a keyboard player, it's very fun. (Main theme of 1:54~) it's disturbing whether this part uses a song of strings ancestry strong in an attack or EREPI ancestry.
The start is obedient in a theme. It's to ad lib by a shuffle beat on the way. I don't like a shuffle so much. There is rarely a drummer good at a shuffle^. Whether a drum comes out at the front when why will it be a shuffle, chatters, ad lib will be, and the rhythm with the low very difficult degree of freedom.
Sound is buried, and a bad one will be the point that the sound I win becomes loud. Without burying sound in a drummer, I want you to consider the shuffle which doesn't go out to the front. They should be to which degree you do volume control of where to lay on the stress and the rhythm for which it's difficult for a drummer by its meaning where a gap is opened. A drummer is trying for various things, and is very good by this performance, but suppression will be a little more necessary to the whole.
Jazz Club Birdland
バードランド（Birdland）は、ニューヨーク市マンハッタンにあった往年の名ジャズクラブ。1949年当時ジャズのメッカであった、ブロードウェイの52丁目にオープンし、ジャズの黄金時代を牽引した。名前は、チャーリー・パーカーのニックネーム「バード」にちなんでいる。1965年に閉店。その後20年の時を経て1986年にブロードウェイの106丁目で同名の店が営業を開始した。現在は44丁目に移転し営業している。
チャーリー・パーカー、レスター・ヤング、カウント・ベイシー、ジャンゴ・ラインハルト、バド・パウエル、マイルス・デイヴィス、ジョン・コルトレーン、アート・ブレイキー、バディ・リッチ、ダイナ・ワシントンなど、錚々たる大御所ジャズ・ミュージシャンが出演し、数多くのライヴ盤が残っている。現在でもパット・メセニー、ダイアナ・クラール、秋吉敏子、八代亜紀などが出演している。
（ｗikipediaより引用一部削除 2016年1月３日）
LIVE DATA
Music Exploration COMPANY【音楽探検隊】
Tiger Kotetsu(g)@President. Hideaki Kohga(key)@Clerk, Takuya Aiba(sax & EWI)@Front Runner. Masayuki Doki(b) Hiroyuki Kanazawa (dr)@Girl Pop
November 21, 2015 at Es Cafe, Maenbashi,Mt.Akagi,Gunma.
Movie DATA
Movie : Sony HDR-PJ790V
Recording : Rolland R-26
Sound Edit : Sound Studio
Edit : Final Cut Pro X Version 10.2.2
The album, Wayne Shorter released in 1985 The first number of the " Atlantis ". Endangered Species For", intention of endangered species. There may be a lot of people who are confused at the point too different from the "Native dancer" which makes imagine the tropics in Shorter, too. This song is on the prolongation in Weather Report, and it seems to imagine the inorganic future. It's still unclear what endangered species pierces. The "lower line" set of the base and the guitar and the linear set on the incoherent sax and keyboard seemingly ignored counterpoint as Ana Liese of music, I interlock and go exquisitely. A liver is groove in difficult Shimogumi of a base and a guitar. It's unclear because whether the difficulty level as the performance technology of a base was high, first "Atlantis", then a baseline was driving. But this driving is far from groove sense clearly, and subtle laver has been lost. Shorter seems to have liked this song, and costarring with various artist is left for YouTube. Every time I run after a time, being intention makes it fast tempo little. I challenge by this band, and, the 4th year. The performance which has come here finally. A town music festival on October 4, 2015 a look/Maebashi October 4, 2015. Music Exploration Company at Kaze-no-Machi Music Festival, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan. Tigar Kotetsu(g) Takuya Aiba (as), Hideaki Kohga (Key), Masayuki Doki (b), Hiroyuki Kanazawa (dr) 1985年 Wayne ShorterがWeather Reportを脱退後に始めて発表したアルバム " Atlantis "の第一曲目。Endangered Species は"絶滅危惧種の意。Shorter の南国をイメージさせる "Native dancer"とはあまりにも違いすぎる点に戸惑う人も多いのではないか。この曲はWeather Reportの延長線上にあり、無機的な未来をイメージしているように思える。絶滅危惧種が何を指しているのかは未だに不明である。 楽曲のアナリーゼとしては、ベースとギターの「下のライン」組と、一見脈絡のないサックスと鍵盤の上のライン組が対位法を無視したような絶妙にからみ合って行く。キモはベースとギターの難解な下組のgrooveである。ベースの演奏技術としての難度が高かったためかどうかは不明であるが、最初の「Atlantis」ではベースラインは打ち込みであった。しかしこの打ち込みは明らかにgroove感からは程遠く、微妙なノリを失してしまっている。Shorterはこの曲が気に入っていたらしく、YouTubeには様々なartistとの共演が残されている。 年代を追うごとにテンポがやや速くなってきているような気がする。 このバンドで挑戦して４年目。ようやくここまできたという演奏。 2015年10月4日 風のまち音楽祭/前橋 Members : Music Exploration Company 【音楽探検隊】タイガー小鉄(g)、饗場拓也(as)、甲賀英明(key)、道木正之(b)、金澤洋幸(dr)
September 6. 2015. Takasaki Kuimonoya Ryo
Chieko Tsutsumi(as), Takayuki Yamazaki (ss), Hideaki Kohga (p)
Yasuo Sakai (b), Yuuki Ito (d)
First explanation of the original piece of music
Three of written ballet music is called by Tchaikovsky a ballet with "Mori's beauty who can sleep" "nutcracker". The scene Moscow Bolshoi theater ballet company premieres a premiere on March 4, 1877, and by which this most famous theme is the second act.
European Jazz Trio takes up Eugen Cicero already by jazz.
About an arrangement.
As an unnecessary articulation wasn't put, a theme arranged not to damage beauty of the original piece of music by an obedient cord.
When it'll be ad lib, everyone undergoes a complete change, and he's a performance of laver laver in plenty. Last theme of two soprano saxophones is very beautiful.
■まず原曲の解説
チャイコフスキーによって作曲されたバレエ音楽、「眠れる森の美女」「くるみ割り人形」とともに三台バレエと言われる。初演は1877年3月4日 モスクワ ボリショイ劇場バレエ団が初演、最も有名なこのテーマは第二幕の情景。
ジャズではオイゲン・キケロ、European Jazz Trioが既に取り上げています。
●9.12（土）1930 高崎/ケイノート K Note Jazz Project #126 Guest 樫山英人(g)、村松廣(d) 甲賀英明(p)、山中幸一(b) Part 1 Geust Session Part 2 JamSession
●9.13（日）1400頃〜 北本 / ヘイワールド 荒井雅子(ds)、甲賀英明(p)、中村真理子(vo)、風早幸夫(sax)、小川秀樹(b)、加藤茂貴(per) ◯9.15 1900 前橋/げんき21 Story of Songs リハーサル ●9.20（日）1930〜 前橋 / Es Cafe Story of Songs vol.2 西澤雅枝(vo）、甲賀英明(p)、渡辺好造（b)、金澤洋幸(d)
This video recorded the performance that I and my daughter performed a piano duet in parents section of the piano society on March, 2002. "Someday my prince will come" and " When You Wish upon a Star" were arranged like " In concert style of chick Corea and Herbie Hancock". Parents section has disappeared for some reason from this next year.（woo!）Because I thought it to be prescription, I carry it. Data March, 2002 Maebashi dream studio 2F hall
The last of the jam session in 19th May,2007 at Maebashi Jazz House Augusta Cherry (a keyboard player to respect from Kozakura Project) to a game after an interval of three years, but I lose by a knockout plainly this time.) of The cause of defeat.... The reason "is not because I drank beer too much", and the reason "is not because I chose a piano", and Cherry is too terrible.
しかし、このビデオがアメリカのMusic Video Makeovers社のMusicProducer9氏の創作意欲を刺激してしまったようです。作者からの事前の承諾確認はなく、「やられた」というのが第一印象。 脇が甘かったですね。 怖いな。それにしてもここまで凝った編集に敬服。いったい何考えてんだろ。
cherryさんが私の秘書？。（私は上司か...） しかし何でゴジラが出てくるの。（苦笑） Fatal errorを犯したようです。 ちょっと間違えただけじゃない....（苦笑) illegal Chord used って。
Exhaustion
"It's improvised." for, it's developing while repeating a reaction in the sound by which one has appeared. An important element is "good piano", "good hole", "good tuning" and "physical condition management".But the physical condition on this day was worst. With not ending easily, going home was an usual thing at 2:00am the day, but work was in the state of the exhaustion on Friday the previous day (2015-05-15). I boarded the Nagano Shinkansen in sleeping hours for 3 hours. It was rescued by the thing which was only 20 minutes from Takasaki to Karuizawa a little. A head and a body aren't functioning so much.
Still it isn't done to consider the improvised contents by force. I'll consider the pattern of the improvised first. This had been decided. The passage with an early right hand and the phrase with a grave left hand were considered. And when stalling, the pattern of the scenic conversion is prepared for how to rescue in the mind about 2. You can entrust site processing with only all that from there. I happened to stall many times, but the pattern when stalling, wasn't used. But a phrase was far from the sense which springs from a body and comes out.
Anyway interest will be light-finger and come out of the phrase one has and the scenic inside assortment of a musical experience immediately. It's probably only the one with which the limited material was combined.
While seeing a clock is, it's improvised, for, a closet also has the experience which stalled, so I'm left to my biological clock and 10 minutes in declaration time are, it's improvised, it was compared and was exaggerated for about 1 minute.
The character of the piano?
I suffer from a touch and the sound of Steinway & Sons full concert gland piano in Oga hall a little at the stage of the rehearsal.
There seem to be also no things like Bechstein in a dream studio by quite early passage well for a touch. Still I failed to grasp the character of this piano. There is also an impression which is an effort, but when it's being bumped to the fullest, an answer seems not to be returning one or a shrew or is it better to tell a mute ring?
Three beat or quadruple beat?
There is a change one will repeat to ask interest immediately, and by which oneself are quadruple time and triple time in hinkai. This, it's improvised, I'm astonished that there is a rhythm change about 15 times. The person himself isn't conscious at all. The location which is the accent by a basis and 12 chances, it can also be said as it is being changed a little.
A halftone is falling.
There are very much parts where a halftone or Hajime sound rises or falls for the tone of the base for the pattern which becomes a basis. A chord of inner voice is changing in response to this. A solution of 5 can see almost no so-called 2−.
When it's left, to go to in D also seems to be a habit.
The character of the piano
It was in the state unfortunately which is consumed from the performance front. Without knowing the character of the partner's piano, the finger and a keyboard become selfish at the well time when I was struggling in the fight state in the sense which overlooked a moving place.
When it'll be repeated to ask later, this piano seems to have been good at making a complaint, not a fight lover sound beautifully.
But it was liked by the meaning that such fight state is different when it was repeated to ask since assuming that it was improvised, it becomes improvised. It's opposite to the just after consumption state.
