Two of the greatest and most virtuosic pianists and super "good guys" of jazz in a moment of purest joie de vivre in the stratosphere of musical thought. Too cool for school.
Great pairing of the two guys Tatum cited as the best young talent in the 50's, Bebops hay day. The tune is Tad Damerons 1945 composition "Hot House" but like so many great bebop tunes it owes its heritage to the cord changes of the great American Song Book - "Hot House" is based on the cord changes to Cole Porters "What is this thing called Love"
@@zivkovicable every jazz musician since 1947, and about 80 percent of jazz fans since 1948. Plus 76 percent of registered Democrats, 67 percent of American militia members, and all of the cast of Duck Dynasty.
Damn! Woo hooo! Smokin virtuosi! Nobody in contemporary pop or even European classics can do any of that! Bach & Liszt would have grooved on this playing.
this is just chaotic random key pressing of classical music that jazz copied...listen to chopin, debussy, scriabin and bach, these low muaicians was know to crying and ashamed, listening and studying classical musics and tried to copy harder but could not do it...
JVG: I'm thrilled that the good Dr's collection is getting digitized. I hope a DVD will also result. RE: any talk of what is "contemporary": Jazz may have time line but it no more defines what is deserving of attention than it would to Classical music- it ain't a thang but a calendar date. The best of anything is timeless. Thanks for more timeless beauty.
@pyannaguy I'm more optimistic than you. I know that Jazz has a considerable global audience. Fewer live venues but more and more opportunities via the Internet on the horizon. Shortly, you'll be able to see an entire Jazz festival in surround sound on Internet TV, as well as other concerts and club gigs. I resist labels, so Golden Age doesn't fit. That Golden Age you referred, happened between 1930 and 1967. The music, and the world have changed so much since then.
@jpckrd I think you make an excellent point. From the musicians' viewpoint, though, maybe it wasn't so much about eliminating the melody, as it was stating it and then improvising over the chord changes. Creativity morphed into what was seen as self indulgence and the rest was history - and so is jazz, largely. Although, it's hardly as if all kinds of memorable tunes are gushing out of Pop in recent history. Rap's the obvious example, but there's a dearth of melody in general. Thoughts?
@Kaalec So well put! Boredom and ego and competing for who's the greatest spewer of notes and bender and hider of melody just kept taking the music farther and farther from any chance of connection with most people. I respect the skill required and appreciate Jazz's complexity, but lots of players just plain carried it away, as you say. It has the audience it has, but in The States it's gone a long way toward almost complete marginalization.
Dick Hyman is a beast... Watching these guys I learned something... piano technique is less about the fingers and more about the entire arm helping the fingers...
@Kaalec I enjoy the accessible forms of Jazz perhaps more than the next man. The center of my music library is my extensive collection of Fats Waller tracks, case in point. However, I am not so quick to say that Dick Hyman or Billy Taylor in this recording are being "Jazz Dweebs". Their playing is of a very sophisticated form, and it is enjoyable to the last degree. Furthermore, music is music. It shouldn't matter if it is accessible or not, so long as it inspires even a single person.
@pyannaguy the resurgence you seek is right in front of your eyes, buddy. In the days of TH-cam and the internet, if you know how play even the damn Triangle well, you can get paid. Even better now is, you can capture a huge niche of fans without even having to travel to world. The world travels RIGHT to your youtube channel! Think about it. Hope only dies when you run out of it. You can only run out of hope if you lose it. You can only lose it if you choose to do so.
I just find it interesting that Taylor says people think that Hyman is a specialist in the older styles when he played with Bird. Seems like Hyman can't be locked into one style if that's the case.
Dick is of course the technical giant and Billy the stylistic superior. However, because each player demands something of the other during this tete a tete, Dick will pull out something spontaneous sounding while Billy answers very nicely to Dick's technical gauntlet. Each player is growing is this piece.
Jazz started out as a very accessible, melodic and exciting form of music. Then it got high-jacked by the jazz dwwebs who made sure all melody and accessibility was sucked out of it. These same jazz weenies dismiss any jazz artists who has a modicum of commercial success (the weenie world's dismissal of Diana Krall is a case in point). Jazz is now so esoteric, it can only be enjoyed by people who like this form. You are purifying yourself into oblivion.
@pyannaguy You are not aware of how big jazz , ragtime and classical music are out side the U.S. These genre's are like rock and country are in the U.S. The people in the U. S. still do not appreciate music as it should be. In Europe huge palaces are built just so opera's and orchestra's can be held. Too bad the greater population is so uneducated so they do not enjoy this music. You may be right about the resurgence. How ever, there are plenty of jazz and classics played in the big cities.
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I work with Dr. Billy Taylor and we're in process of digitizing his video archive, so all of the Billy video comes from his personal collection.
Is there somewhere we can find it?
Everything is on TH-cam. @@itsRemco
"Oh I don't know....let's do.....(plays a short indicator)"
"Sure!"
And off they go into that marvellous performance.
Humans at their best.
The chord changes are the same as “ what ‘s this thing called love “
@Marc-Antoine MANZONI yikes
Dick Hyman is a musical genius.
Every guy that billy taylor duets with, they always know how not to step all over each other. And Dick Hyman is awesome despite his unfortunate name.
Now these are real musicians
This is terrific. Both of these guys know more about music and piano than I thought possible. Wonderful.
i love billy taylor
Two great musicians and two great teachers at the same time
Two of the greatest and most virtuosic pianists and super "good guys" of jazz in a moment of purest joie de vivre in the stratosphere of musical thought. Too cool for school.
Sublime
yes!
They both seem to be really enjoying themselves. Wish I could play like that......
Billy Taylor's smile is my favorite
This my first exposure to Billy Taylor. Like it, He is always smiling
Great pairing of the two guys Tatum cited as the best young talent in the 50's, Bebops hay day. The tune is Tad Damerons 1945 composition "Hot House" but like so many great bebop tunes it owes its heritage to the cord changes of the great American Song Book - "Hot House" is based on the cord changes to Cole Porters "What is this thing called Love"
klavier1us You have big ears, my friend.
not really; everybody knows this.
@@MrWallythedog What percentage of the population would you say?
@@zivkovicable every jazz musician since 1947, and about 80 percent of jazz fans since 1948. Plus 76 percent of registered Democrats, 67 percent of American militia members, and all of the cast of Duck Dynasty.
Tatum said that about them?
Enjoyed Dick a couple of years back in Toronto....such a thrill! Thanks for this great posting!
I love it, Billy and Dick! Two Incredible Educators, keep archiving and interviewing Bret great stuff! Incredibly Impressive output too
HOT HOUSE!!!! I LOVE THIS SONG!
and they play it so well
these guys are outstanding
That was beautiful. I love to hear music like this.
I'm really speechless...
Fantastic job. Stretching out without stepping on each others toes. Great counterpoint
wow that was awsome! replay!
i will never be this good at piano.
how could anyone enjoy listening to this. its like listening to some guitar tapping or something. never done that either
I miss Billy Taylor's segments on CBS's Sunday Morning.
Yes it is!! I was thinking the very same thing!!
Oh My! (can´t find the proper words to say how much I like this)
Fantastic Music- Video, thanks for posting!
sweeeeeet lord thats just incredible
Great! Thanks for posting this.....
Damn! Woo hooo!
Smokin virtuosi!
Nobody in contemporary pop or even European classics can do any of that!
Bach & Liszt would have grooved on this playing.
this is just chaotic random key pressing of classical music that jazz copied...listen to chopin, debussy, scriabin and bach, these low muaicians was know to crying and ashamed, listening and studying classical musics and tried to copy harder but could not do it...
JVG: I'm thrilled that the good Dr's collection is getting digitized. I hope a DVD will also result.
RE: any talk of what is "contemporary": Jazz may have time line but it no more defines what is deserving of attention than it would to Classical music- it ain't a thang but a calendar date. The best of anything is timeless. Thanks for more timeless beauty.
Sheer elegance.
beautiful
Friendly guys. Superb playing.
ahhh this makes me smile
excellent.. i love bebop.
Heavenly music!! , thanks for the upload !!
Eeco
Great job to have. Keep up the good work!!!
i enjoy it
and they enjoy it to !
Happy Birthday Dick Hyman; born on this date in 1927. {Mar. 8th}...
Great post !!!
yeah black and white belong together like the keys on a piano !
What a wonderful clip!! Keepon digitizing :-)
Joyful!
What says it all .... “What do you want to play....” plays a few notes .... everything is understood. Enough said!
Its "Hot House", written by Parker / Gillespie
Written by Tadd Dameron, made famous by the aforementioned musicians.
Epic moment.. my GOD
I'd love to see more melodies like this in experimental/ progessive metal :D
I first saw this video as I was just starting to get into jazz and it made my jaw drop. Rest in peace Billy Taylor.
wonderrfulllllll
tnx
i just love guys like dick hyman or early bill evans who look like bureaucrats but had more soul than nowaday's black r'n'b artists ...
The rocket-scientist of jazz-piano
This is so wonderful! :D
Interestingly, the one extant Bird and Diz video clip is him playing Hot House, this tune. The pianist on that clip was Dick Hyman!
@TimJim333 The tune is "Hot House," composed by Tadd Dameron.
god they cease to amaze me xD
Good stuff.
that's I call pianist! both of them...wow
How do people become so skillful?
i find it very awesome that he can hear 3 notes and know what song hes talking about. what is that song?
SWEET
music spans genders, ages, eras, races and most other great schisms in our world today.
@cricketmunchkin this is a standard piece, so they just have to quote the beginning to know what they are talking about!
@pyannaguy I'm more optimistic than you. I know that Jazz has a considerable global audience. Fewer live venues but more and more opportunities via the Internet on the horizon. Shortly, you'll be able to see an entire Jazz festival in surround sound on Internet TV, as well as other concerts and club gigs. I resist labels, so Golden Age doesn't fit. That Golden Age you referred, happened between 1930 and 1967. The music, and the world have changed so much since then.
Yes, that was in the early 50s, this is more than 30 years later.
גדול ומיוחד, תודה
Dick Hyman is another level
That you can have two people using ten fingers extemporaneously and hear NO sour notes is phenomenal.
What is this thing called Hot House!? The Masters at play and my goodness is the sh*# swingin'. Thanks so much for posting!
@daveysan smart, mindful, and disciplined practice. a good deal of it, of course; but quality above all else.
if anyone is wondering where dick hymans fingerbreaker is i have re -uploaded it so yah ^^
good stuff
This is whats up!
@squeezemahlemon Amen.
@bhcphoto I'm hip!
@jpckrd I think you make an excellent point. From the musicians' viewpoint, though, maybe it wasn't so much about eliminating the melody, as it was stating it and then improvising over the chord changes. Creativity morphed into what was seen as self indulgence and the rest was history - and so is jazz, largely.
Although, it's hardly as if all kinds of memorable tunes are gushing out of Pop in recent history. Rap's the obvious example, but there's a dearth of melody in general. Thoughts?
@Kaalec So well put! Boredom and ego and competing for who's the greatest spewer of notes and bender and hider of melody just kept taking the music farther and farther from any chance of connection with most people. I respect the skill required and appreciate Jazz's complexity, but lots of players just plain carried it away, as you say. It has the audience it has, but in The States it's gone a long way toward almost complete marginalization.
this is what happens when you practice
Not in my case ;-)
NB. It also matters what you practice.
Dick Hyman is a beast... Watching these guys I learned something... piano technique is less about the fingers and more about the entire arm helping the fingers...
nice
@Kaalec I enjoy the accessible forms of Jazz perhaps more than the next man. The center of my music library is my extensive collection of Fats Waller tracks, case in point. However, I am not so quick to say that Dick Hyman or Billy Taylor in this recording are being "Jazz Dweebs". Their playing is of a very sophisticated form, and it is enjoyable to the last degree. Furthermore, music is music. It shouldn't matter if it is accessible or not, so long as it inspires even a single person.
Yay, bebop! The word 'bebop' didn't mean anything to me just a few years ago, it just sounded funny... that was until I heard the music, cheers :)
Amazing.How to learn ?? Here it is.
@pyannaguy the resurgence you seek is right in front of your eyes, buddy. In the days of TH-cam and the internet, if you know how play even the damn Triangle well, you can get paid. Even better now is, you can capture a huge niche of fans without even having to travel to world. The world travels RIGHT to your youtube channel! Think about it. Hope only dies when you run out of it. You can only run out of hope if you lose it. You can only lose it if you choose to do so.
dat name tho
Synergy incarnate.
I just find it interesting that Taylor says people think that Hyman is a specialist in the older styles when he played with Bird.
Seems like Hyman can't be locked into one style if that's the case.
indeed.
"Bebop"
the tune is hot house
where do you get this material? it's great!
insane musicianship.
There is no bad race, nor good race. Only bad or good (or great in this case!) music.
Dick is of course the technical giant and Billy the stylistic superior. However, because each player demands something of the other during this tete a tete, Dick will pull out something spontaneous sounding while Billy answers very nicely to Dick's technical gauntlet. Each player is growing is this piece.
the song is "hot house"
Jazz started out as a very accessible, melodic and exciting form of music. Then it got high-jacked by the jazz dwwebs who made sure all melody and accessibility was sucked out of it. These same jazz weenies dismiss any jazz artists who has a modicum of commercial success (the weenie world's dismissal of Diana Krall is a case in point). Jazz is now so esoteric, it can only be enjoyed by people who like this form. You are purifying yourself into oblivion.
@pyannaguy You are not aware of how big jazz , ragtime and classical music are out side the U.S. These genre's are like rock and country are in the U.S. The people in the U. S. still do not appreciate music as it should be. In Europe huge palaces are built just so opera's and orchestra's can be held. Too bad the greater population is so uneducated so they do not enjoy this music. You may be right about the resurgence. How ever, there are plenty of jazz and classics played in the big cities.
hot house is the name of the song
could be just a phrase how taylor would play it, you know?
check out billy taylors style, than you might get it, but of course it was only my thought
this song sounds like a bird and dizzy song i've listened to before.