And it's time for awesome things now! (piano + voicepost meme!)

[eponymous_rose]

First off:

Since Oscar Peterson's death just before Christmas, I've been working up the nerve to get myself back into jazz piano - I've got my RCM finished, thirteen years of classical piano training under my belt, and enough jazz listening growing up to have at least some level of instinct for the genre.

So this is my latest project: Oscar Peterson's Hymn to Freedom.

(Not me playing, hee!)

You may recognize it from a House episode - he played a bit it at some point. It's extremely straightforward up to about 1:50, at which point things get a little nuts. It's awesome.

Anyway, yes. This is gonna be a long, long-term project, but it'll be fun. Whee!

Second thing:

It's time for a meme! A Voicepost Interview Meme! Simple enough - ask me something (anything), and I'll answer it in an upcoming voice post. Got something you've always wanted to hear me say/do? That's good, too!

(I reserve the right to come up with clever ways to get out of doing stuff I don't wanna do. Apart from that, anything goes!)

Edit: Now, why do you suppose people would be setting off fireworks tonight? That's interesting. Almost as interesting as the car parked sideways across our back alley. Hm.

Also Edit: Oh. Said car is stuck. And it's the same one that got stuck there last night. People, there are cleared-out parking stalls not too far off! Go for them!

Comments

[manji-chan.livejournal.com]

I wish you luck on that one. Despite years of playing jazz (on a jazz oriented instrument no less) I still fail spectacularly at it. Though, not as much as the cello players in the pit orchestra.

As for a question...where are some of the places you've traveled? Any particularly interesting anecdotes?

[rachelbeann.livejournal.com]

That song was fun - I vaguely remembered it from House, but after it "went nuts" I became increasingly more impressed. Good luck with that!

As for the meme...I wonder, can you do any impersonations? It's always weird to hear someone whose mastered a wonderful rendition of Elmo's World, or can mimic a president perfectly. Attempts are great, talent or no!

[wondygal.livejournal.com]

Oh, that's awesome. I really love the last twenty seconds or so. My thing with jazz is, I really like it, but I feel I don't know enough about it. So I feel silly talking about it, because my opinions mostly consist of "ooh! shiny!" But that is quite shiny indeed.

[(Anonymous)]

Jazz with two hands? That would be accomplishment, indeed. Right now, I think I'll stick to clarinet and my composition.

Don't suppose you could play something on your violin/a piano? The sound quality probably won't be that great, I know, but *shrug*

[northern_magic]

And that should teach me from posting at 1AM, but of course I'll forget the lesson entirely.

[ayuamarca.livejournal.com]

I want you to say something in an Irish dialect. It'd be funny.

[thesoulwithin.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, when he went nuts, that was just spectacular.

Well, could you do your best pretend/real-Chinese for the voicepost?

[eers.livejournal.com]

I went "Hey, I know this" and then realised that you wrote it was in House at some point. (Don't worry, I've been doing this kind of thing practically the entire day already. I'm just having a weird day. Then again, when not...) It's beautiful. When you've completed learning to play it, I'd love to hear your version. :)