Autumn Leaves – Jazz Piano Solo improvisation
This is my piano solo version of this nice tune.For stereo sound just go to: vids.myspace.com More informations. Autumn Leaves" is a much-recorded p...
This is my piano solo version of this nice tune.For stereo sound just go to: vids.myspace.com More informations. Autumn Leaves” is a much-recorded popular song. Originally a 1945 French song “Les feuilles mortes” (literally “Dead Leaves”) with music by Joseph Kosma and lyrics by poet Jacques Prévert, English lyrics were written in 1947 by the American songwriter Johnny Mercer. It has become a pop standard and a jazz standard in both languages, and as an instrumental. “Les feuilles mortes” was introduced by Yves Montand in 1946 for the film Les Portes de la Nuit.[1] The film Autumn Leaves (1956) starring Joan Crawford featured the song, which was sung by Nat King Cole over the title sequence. The French songwriter Serge Gainsbourg wrote “La chanson de Prévert” as a tribute to this song. About the composer: Kosma was born József Kozma in Budapest, where his parents taught stenography and typing. He had a brother, Akos. A maternal relative was the photographer László Moholy-Nagy, and another relative was the conductor Georg Solti. He started to play the piano at age 5, and later took piano lessons. At the age of 11, he wrote his first opera, Christmas in the Trenches. After completing his education at the Gymnasium Franz-Josef, he attended the Academy of Music in Budapest, where he studied with Leo Weiner. He also studied with Béla Bartók at the Liszt Academy. He earned diplomas in composition and conducting. He won a grant to study in Berlin in 1928. There, he met Lilli …
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smooth jazzzzzz…
I love your music…are you published? I can learn so much from the way you play!
great
thanks
beautiful!
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beautiful.
what key is this in?? i just want to know some common jazz keys, because i really want to start learning jazz
Wow, I wish I could play piano like this
I wish, I wish, I wish, but I can’t improvise. It’s a curse.
hey man! congratulations!!! great pianist!!! i wish play piano like thet some day…
Frumos!
i’m a drummer, not a pianist, but i’ve been very impressed by your playing… compliments
Grazie Martino
eggià mi sono accorto poi che sei italiano
bravissimo, mi hai incantato.
u r very professional
pura passione italiana….grande!
i think i can listen to this all day.
ORGOGLIOSO DI ESSERE ITALIANO!
Autumn Leaves is one of the most played and well known jazz standard: any average jazz listener could feel the original melody of this tune given the first chord. There are BILLIONS of “standard” improvs on the usual melody of this song and in order to bring the listener something new and enjoyable, one is surely allowed to thoroughly change the melody and make harmonic variations: the mixing between the improvisation you listen and the melody you have in mind is what you are supposed to enjoy.
Incredible.
What style is this? Easy-listening café jazz swing or something?
That was simply sublime.
beautiful!
Lei è eccezionale, se lo faccia dire. Io sono sempre stato fedele alla versione di Bill Evans, quasi riluttante alle altre versioni molto stolidamente, ma sono davvero piacevolmente impressionato. Complimenti vivissimi.
Grazie noconfig , molto gentile