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Hi, jazz man or jazz woman, and welcome to my 'secret project' - "Take the 'A' Train To Saratov"! On this page, my 'hidden' life as a jazz piano player is represented:). To give you an idea, my influences are (alphabetically) - Chick Corea, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Keith Jarreth, Kenny Kikland, Michail Okun', Oscar Peterson, McCoy Tyner... - well, everybody:). I sometimes play at home on my digital 'Technics Sx Px-226" - which I love so much. It has a very nice, 'real' grand piano sound and touch, as well as a simple build-in sequencer, which allows me to add bass lines to my piano solos. Below you will find some tunes which I recorded for myself during last year or so. Two songs (Ellingtone's "Take the 'A' Train" and Russian pop song of the 50-s "There're so many bachelor guys on Saratov's streets":)) gave the name to this 'album'...:-). It's all about blend of different cultures and is another attempt to prove that music is a universal language...:). The recording quality is pretty bad (first, I recorded on tape, and only later my friend gave me a device for digitizing). But what makes it even worse is that I'm not a professional piano player...:-) Still, some of my friends seemed to enjoy my improvisations, so I decided to share a few of them with the Web. If you are interested in ideas rather than in performance quality, you might even like it..:). I'd be very glad to hear your opinion anyway - please let me know what you think. | ||
| Tune (MP3) |
Size / Duration |
Comments. |
| Autumn leaves | 3.1 Mb / 4'30" | Probably the most famous jazz standard of all times. "Fallen leaves" is the other name..:) |
| Soulful Song | 4.2 Mb / 6'10" | Jazz interpretation of the Russian pop-song of the 50-s (?). |
| Yardbird Suite | 3.9 Mb / 5'40" | My favorite Charlie Parker's tune. |
| Dark Night | 3.0 Mb / 4'20" | Jazz interpretation of the famous russian song of the WW2 era. |
| Take the 'A' Train | 3.1 Mb / 4'30" | Straihorn / Ellingtone's tune. |
| Poplars | 4.2 Mb / 6'00" | Russian pop-song of the 60s. |
| Our Answer to Comrade Peterson | 0.3 Mb / 0'30" | Dedicated to Mr. Oscar Peterson's "Etudes". |
| If I Should Lose You | 3.6 Mb / 5'20" | Jazz standard. |
| Old Maple | 3.3 Mb / 4'40" | Russian pop song of... 50s? 40s? - for piano, bass & metronome...:) |
| Soft..ly(?) | 3.2 Mb / 4'40" | "Softly as in the morning sunrise". Jazz standard. (Interpreted...well, not softly at all:)). |
| My Santa Lucia | 1.1 Mb / 1'40" | ... as I call it:). Yepp. |
| I Hear Music | 1.7 Mb / 2'20" | Bobby McFerrin's song. Makes me feel so young again...:) |
| "Guys So Many Bachelor there are"... | 1.1 Mb / 1'30" | ... on Saratov's streets - famous Russian song of the 50s. |
| My Romance | 4.4 Mb / 6'20" | Jazz standard. While playing, I was kind of dedicating it to Keith Jarreth I guess :-) |
| Waltz #... | 0.5 Mb / 0'40" | ? - Don't remember where I have heard it. |
Let me know if you enjoyed or hated it, would like to share some ideas / comments, want me to send you some additional stuff / info, or just say "Hi!"... - Thanks!
