Disklavier

The question of "why" it was done this way is a bit convoluted.  As it turns out, the first cut was done this way just because it was simpler.  After hearing the outcome, the musician felt that it really added a lot to the piano's sound...it made it more "interesting".  I agree that many times the pure piano sound is all that is required.  But, for now, this is the way it is...I'll see if I can create some without the backing electronic piano, but I don't know if it'll fly with the musician...  We never encountered the tuning issue...maybe it's because I have my piano tuned so often?  But it certainly could be an issue.

As far as solos go...I arbitrarily decided to cut most of these tracks at around 30 seconds (to keep the file sizes small).  There are certainly some piano solos, and a whole lot of short piano runs or licks.  Some of the other tracks also have horn sections which often play off of the piano...I didn't include any of those in this pass.  I'll discuss this with the musician and see if we can release a whole track.

Thanks for the feedback again, this is exactly what I'm looking for...Anyone else care to chime in?  

-Kevin




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From: Phil Blah <phil.blah@...>
To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
Sent: Sun, January 3, 2010 7:25:07 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Any interest in some high quality jazz improv?

  
Hey Kevin,

I was actually going to ask if it was an electronic piano, I first was thinking that you had a duplicate track and the built in synth was playing. I can tell a fake piano a mile away lol.

Why would you want to do this? it's great to know that the only piano is 'your own real one' and I think that's the beauty of live playing... I normally hate when you have a Musicsoft+Audio and the piano is just played over the top of the real one... also even if you have everything in 'tune' 2 pianos doing the same notes will always be slightly off.. 

Anyway they are cool, well done!

Just for the fun of feedback...since you and your muician are doing this, perhaps each song could have just a little solo for a 20 or 40 seconds just to break up the song a bit.. even a base solo would be cool ;-)

Cheers,

Philip





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From: Kevin Goroway <kgoroway@yahoo. com>
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Mon, 4 January, 2010 11:10:25 AM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Any interest in some high quality jazz improv?

  
Phil,

The other piano you hear is intentional.  It isn't an acoustic, it's an electronic piano and the blending of the sounds is something we were looking for...including the reverb effect.

I'm producing them myself along with the musician.

Glad you liked them!  And thanks for the feedback...It helps!

-Kevin




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From: Phil Blah <phil.blah@yahoo. com>
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Sun, January 3, 2010 6:53:02 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Any interest in some high quality jazz improv?

  
Hey Kevin,

Yes I am interested in these songs for sure. Nothing better than raw, warm, heart filling jazz! 

Anyway, they sound great, I can however notice the piano in the background, I suppose it's hard to have that completly isiolated from the recording without having the piano far away from each mic on the base/drums and or each band memeber in a recording cell. 

On the song "In you're own sweet way" I noticed a slight - funny sort of reverb but it's more of an pipe echo, it also reminds me of a low res MP3 compression artifact noise but it seems to fade in and out.. but this is common if you listen carfully to some other .wave audio on the Mark4 for some reason, some songs are worse than others.. 

Where did these come from?

Cheers,

Philip





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From: Kevin <kgoroway@yahoo. com>
To: disklavier@yahoogro ups.com
Sent: Sun, 3 January, 2010 12:18:41 PM
Subject: [disklavier] Any interest in some high quality jazz improv?

  
I'm trying to gauge interest in some "pianosoft+audio- like" jazz improv songs.

These would work on any disklavier that can play those CD audio+Midi formats.  I think that means some (all?) Mark IIIs and all MarkIVs.  Maybe others?

The "+audio" is basically jazz accompaniment.  So, think upright bass, and a drum kit.

All of these songs are played by a real live musician, with no editing, and no planning ahead...it's basically real jazz improv played from lead sheets.  I think that it is quite a bit better than the stuff that you generally run across.

Anyway, I've put together 5 samples of these for anyone who is interested to download.  I'd love to hear any and all feedback.  The files are zipped, and in the zips are WAV files.  To play these on a MarkIV, you only need to get them into your piano's FromToPC folder.  On a Mark III, you'd need to either burn the WAVs as an audio CD, or play them back on a computer plugged into the correct jacks on the piano.

This is a link to the "folder" where each of the files can be downloaded, or all can be downloaded at once.

http://www.mediafire.com/?sharekey=354a9ad4dadcd31c4d287c5461e4af2212241d17b18db8d24eb74d8a6cde9cae

Thanks in advance for any and all feedback.

-Kevin


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