More Than You Know - jazz piano improvisation

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Dear friends listeners, and here we are again, the music never leaves us alone :-)
In this video ....it is the beginning of an july evening .... Fortunately, many guests had not yet arrived, shortly after there where over 100 people, and also a caus of noise......
However, from as you can see I (as usual) I have changed a lot the song, but maybe this is one of the things I enjoy most .... change the character of the song, .... if I had to play as the original song. then .. I'd rather not play it and place a disc :-)
Good summer evening to you all.
Video Info:
Piano: Yamaha C2
Audio & Video: ZOMM HD Q3
Performed by Alfonso Gugliucci
Music by Vincent Millie Youmans
About the Composer:
Vincent Millie Youmans (September 27, 1898 -- April 5, 1946) was an American popular theatre composer and Broadway producer.
Youmans was born in New York City and grew-up on Central Park West on the site where the Mayflower Hotel once stood. His father, a prosperous hat manufacturer, moved the family to upper-class Larchmont, New York. Youmans attended the Trinity School in Mamaroneck, New York, and Heathcote Hall in Rye, New York. Originally, his ambition was to become an engineer, and he attended Yale University for a short time. He dropped out to become a runner for a Wall Street brokerage firm before he was drafted to fight in World War I. He took an interest in the theatre when he produced troop shows for the Navy.
After the war, Youmans was a Tin Pan Alley song-plugger for the TB Harms Company and then a rehearsal pianist for composer Victor Herbert's operettas. He collaborated with lyricist Ira Gershwin on the score for Two Little Girls in Blue, which won wide acclaim. His next show, with lyrics by Otto Harbach and Oscar Hammerstein II, was Wildflower. His most enduring success, however, was No, No, Nanette, with lyrics by Irving Caesar. This was the biggest musical-comedy success of the 1920s in both Europe and the USA and his two songs "Tea for Two" and "I Want to Be Happy" are considered standards.
From 1927, Youmans also produced his own shows. He had another major success with Hit the Deck! (1927; including "Hallelujah"), but his subsequent productions were failures, though many of their songs remain popular. His last contributions to Broadway were some songs for Take a Chance (1932).
Youmans collaborated with the greatest songwriters on Broadway: Herbert Stothart, Otto Harbach, Oscar Hammerstein II, Irving Caesar, Anne Caldwell, Leo Robin, Clifford Grey, Billy Rose, Edward Eliscu, Edward Heyman, Harold Adamson, Mack Gordon, Buddy De Sylva and Gus Kahn. Youmans' early songs are remarkable for their economy of melodic material: two-, three- or four-note phrases are constantly repeated and varied by subtle harmonic or rhythmic changes. In later years, however, apparently influenced by Jerome Kern, he turned to longer musical sentences and more free-flowing melodic lines.
Youmans retired in 1934, after a professional career of only 13 years, only returning to Broadway to mount the ill-fated extravaganza The Vincent Youmans Ballet Revue (1943), an ambitious mix of Latin-American and classical music, including Ravel's Daphnis et Chloé. Choreographed by Leonide Massine, it lost some $4 million.More than any of his contemporaries, he made constant re-use of a limited number of melodies; he published fewer than 100 songs, but 18 of these were considered standards by ASCAP.
He died of tuberculosis at age 47. At his death, Youmans left behind a large quantity of unpublished material. In 1970, Youmans was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame.

[@shaggytan]

I could just sit here and listen to this all day... *bliss*

[@nextone8]

Beautiful. Wish you upload more videos.

[@MrJuma30]

Can´t avoid remembering Michelle. trying up in the movie "The Fabulous Baker brothers". Great song,great performance by Alfonso, as usual.

[@davidvigerjr6612]

Doesn't get any better!

[@AlfonsoGugliucci]

Thanks!

[@lilbabycrush]

so smooth

[@fmiglio437]

Ci mancavi ben tornato delizioso ascoltarti

[@Crazymind2]

E' sempre un piacere ascoltarti...

[@rudbeckie1]

Velmi krásné...děkuji.

[@MrRyohei1987]

Wow Alfonso is back!

[@dclome]

Wonderful!

[@AlfonsoGugliucci]

Thanks!

[@Thorsen2008]

You my friend, are a gift to the World. Keep playing - it makes life easier, better and so much more classic

[@rjberman25]

This is fantastic

[@florbo73]

Grande Alfonso, ben tornato! che tocco, veramente delicato, mi piacciono molto le frasi che esponi a partire da 03:05, ottima esecuzione, grazie! :)

[@arcangelogorrasi9169]

Spettacolo grande

[@deanpedlar]

ALFONSO, YOU ARE ABSOLUTELY TERRIFIC. GREAT FEEL, GREAT EXPRESSION. WHAT ALL PIANISTS DREAM AND PRACTICE TO ACHIEVE. THANKS FOR THE GREAT CHOPS.....

[@Plainoldd]

Love this record

[@wolf175]

Wonderful, Alfonso !

[@SeagoingJet]

Amazing as always. : )

[@emilianopetronilli]

bravissimo, e che sinistra! Complimenti

[@Beedahpianokid]

Man, I'd come to that restaurant just to listen to you. You're great! The piece is quite mellow and subtle, quite lovely. :D

[@AlfonsoGugliucci]

Thanks , I use sometime the soft pedal (una corda) but not by the whole song. Usually the yamaha pianos have as characteristic sound of soft bell, but only if the intonation at the hammers have been made this correctly, then of course with a little help of the touch, you can get a mellow sound.

[@MrEyebrowz]

really good :)

[@Wantmorednb2]

Perfect

[@DonFetaMeta]

May I ask what piano it is you're playing! It has the most lovely mellow tone, as always used to its fullest by your amazing talent ;)

[@AlfonsoGugliucci]

Grazie Emiliano, ciao

[@AlfonsoGugliucci]

Ciao Roberto, grazie :-)

[@easteast10]

Love this arrangement. Wonder if you have a transcript?

[@AlfonsoGugliucci]

Thanks, but this is improvisation, no, i have only a jazz fake book version, but is completely different

[@Ryano526]

in the description, he is playing a Yamaha C2

[@rackball]

i need this live. Alfonso, where do u play so i can make it my next travel spot

[@angiejuan9248]

[@susannahskidmore8487]

loved it! likewise-- what's your attitude towards recording song cooperations at Bandhub =) I for the most part record acoustic bass -- We may be performing together at some point! This'll be sensational!

[@zeloskie]

0:39, 0:42 ..... I came

[@MrKeys57]

mm...earcandy...!!

[@Crusadair]

IOI

[@greob]

This piano sounds really good. Do you play with the soft pedal? If so, do you have to use it in this kind of environment?