Piano
This piece is from Brad Mehldau’s album, Largo, recorded in 2001. The head of this piece features similar chord changes to the Jobim tune, Waters of March. The form of this piece is intro, chorus, outdo. In this performance, the intro and outdo and performed by solo piano. The chorus features the piano accompaniment playing triplets while the groove and melody are duple meter. This performance also features a piano and drums solo. Featured performers are Caleb Grabowski on piano, Martha Diaz on bass, and Garrett Morris on drums.
The best-selling book, I Cover The Waterfront, written by Max Miller, inspired this song. Max Miller was a newspaper reporter who wrote this book about “covering” the coast in search of his next big story for the newspaper. Lyricist Edward Heyman took this title and idea and transformed it into a love song about a person searching for love. The song was a hit initially, but then lost steam. Then, jazz artist Artie Shaw picked up the song followed by Billie Holiday. These recordings cemented the song into the jazz standard repertoire. This performance of the song is based off of the Chris Thile and Brad Mehldau version off there album, Chris Thile & Brad Mehldau. The performance will feature Lauren Brasesco singing and Caleb Grabowski on piano.
This song was originally written for the Disney movie, Alice In Wonderland. It was later adapted into a jazz tune by making some changes to the original melody and chords. The Disney song transformed into a jazz standard through recordings by jazz piano players, Dave Brubeck, Oscar Peterson, and most importantly, Bill Evans. Bill Evans’ recording of Alice In Wonderland from his album, Sunday At The Village Vanguard, is one of his more famous recordings. This performance will feature Caleb Grabowski playing solo jazz piano. I started with a Bill Evans-esque introduction to the piece but then move through different stylistic territories.