Saturday 30 November 2019

"LOTUS BLOSSOM"  A superb piano solo. I had just posted comments on the magnificent Billy Strayhorn  song "Lush Life."  It is his most famous composition , a song Sinatra thought was so complex, he gave up trying to record it. I suggest you listen to a fine piano solo of Lotus Blosson, played by Fred Hersch.
So perfect is the piece, that Duke Ellington, Strayhorn's mentor and collaborator, always played it as written , believing that improvisation could not improve upon Strayhorn;s unique composition. As you listen, it is possible that the song could have been written by  Chopin or Ravel, so perfect is the melody and harmonic structure. Fred Hersch does the song full justice.

https://youtu.be/N3lzKxt20Zo

No comments:

Post a Comment