"Just Friends" is a popular song that has become a jazz standard. The song was written in 1931 by John Klenner with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis. Although introduced by Red McKenzie and His Orchestra in October 1931, it first became a hit when singer Russ Columbo performed it with Leonard Joy’s Orchestra in 1932. It charted again the same year in a version by Ben Selvin and His Orchestra and has been recorded often since by WikiPedia
During playing, it's also important to hear other people, but the rhythm in which one inheres is a problem. Rhythm of a piano is very unstable.
A rehearsal just became faster than the supported tempo, and it's useless, isn't it? An amateur regrettable performance. An animation of the reflection purpose.
I wanted to do more various things, I wanted to make a pitfall and play in particular. A not enough performance.
May 8, 2016 Takasaki Kuimonoya Ryo
Hideaki Kohga (p), Yasuo Sakai (p) Yuki Ito (dr)
"Feelings" is a 1974 song with lyrics written by Brazilian singer Morris Albert, set to the tune of "Pour Toi," separately composed by Louis “Loulou” Gasté in 1957. Albert recorded "Feelings" as a single and later included it as the title track of his 1975 debut album. The song's lyrics, recognizable by their "whoa whoa whoa" chorus, concern the singer's inability to "forget my feelings of love". Albert's original recording of the song was very successful, performing well internationally. "Feelings" peaked at #6 on the pop and #2 on the Adult Contemporary charts in America.
by Wikipedia 2016.3.21
A theme of a piano provided for a performance simply by this performance. Because an idea with the drum pattern is discussed with the pattern of the base, it's necessary to begin to compose a piano trio. I take the place where you could have a base at an image of a drum a little, to the extent, it seems good in balancing way.My ad lib had become intense hot, but the drum and the base were still. It was difficult to put the small hue of the cord.
March 13, 2016.
Kuimonoya Ryo Takasaki,
Kuimonoya Ryo Musician`s Club, Opening Performance
Hideaki Kohga(p), Sakai Yasuo (b) Yuuki Ito (d)
Karuizawa Twitter Piano Concert at Ohga Hall on May 16, 2015
Piano Steinway & Sons D 277
Bird land ( Weather Report ) , Music Exploration Company【音楽探検隊】Live at es cafe, Nov.21, 2015
November 21, 2015. Music Exploration Company【音楽探検隊】 live at es cafe
Tigar Kotetsu(g)、Takuya Aiba (as), Hideaki Kohga (key.) Masayuki Doki (eb)、Hiroyuki Kanazawa (dr)
Bolivia(2-1) Jazz Piano Trio, September 20, 2015. at Es Cafe
September 20, 2015. at Es Cafe, Maebashi, Gunma, Japan.
Hideaki Kohga(p), Kozo Watanabe (b), Hiroyuki Watanabe (dr) Es Cafe (群馬県前橋市) 2015年9月20日 甲賀英明(p)、渡辺好造(b)、金澤洋幸(dr)
Summertime, Jazz Vocal at Tea House Maya, June 7,2015
"Summertime" is an aria composed in 1934 by George Gershwin for the 1935 opera Porgy and Bess. The lyrics are by DuBose Heyward, the author of the novel Porgy on which the opera was based, although the song is also co-credited to Ira Gershwin by ASCAP. by Wikipedia June 7, 2015. Maebashi Tea House Maya , Maebashi, Gunma, Japan
Kazu Sekine (vo)、Hideaki Kohga (p)、Koichi Yamanaka (b)
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
