Playing Piano in a Big Band (How to Play Impossible-Looking Charts!)

[@Andreascph]

So useful!! I have been playing Thad Jones' Groove Merchant in a big band and didn't know what to do with all the chords. So this is perfect. Thank you.

[@benphillips3042]

This is really great Jeremy - no one ever really talks about this skill! Great to have it articulated so clearly 👍🏻

[@Capwnql]

Aside from playing in my town's big band, I also got the chair for this semester in our uni's big band, so this was a good reminder and recap for me, of what to actually pay attention to in such a setting. :)

[@alonwiesz3180]

Im just about to join a big band for the first time in my life and this video was so on the nose its amazing

[@arnauportfernandez90]

Loved that very helpful! Would love to hear more about how to interpret big band charts as a pianist and what to look out for! Thanks a lot!

[@rockstarjazzcat]

Your “competitor” Tony Winston brought me to your channel. Very nice video to come across. Cheers, Daniel 🤙🏻 (favorite school supply? lol trapper keeper and hp rpn calculator perhaps?)

[@brw4807]

I remember in college going to jazz festivals with our big band and getting high marks for my piano playing-even during sight reading. I attribute this to a few things: I was actually guitar player (long story), I couldn’t possibly read the charts that fast, and I rarely soloed. Add in a Count Basie ending and I was good to go. Such a great opportunity.

[@spacedoodle6989]

Very helpful, thank you.

[@robpallot5058]

People talk about how Miles Davis played the rests - Here we are literally playing in the rests. Great video - thanks!; you should do more on big band piano playing - very little quality online content regarding these topics cyrrently avaliable. You could even do the differences between Bassie and Ellington big band piano styles, or best big band piano voicings...

[@chieflief]

Nice flex reading all those chords haha! Lunch kit.

[@lenpoche3478]

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[@cioccolato2124]

I played this version of All Of Me with our college big band last year, I really could've used this ahahah, this arrangement has so many chords that feel pretty unnatural rythmically and and harmonically

[@donm3986]

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