Stephanie Trick plays Liza by George Gershwin stride piano

[@bigstriderman]

I have nothing but praise for you, Stephanie Trick. Your playing is so clean! What a gift!

[@BegToDiffer99]

I've watched this a hundred times and always amazed! She wraps it up with that smile. Whew

[@peterz1peterz]

Stephanie Trick is a national treasure!

[@zoranpetrovic7257]

I do not agree. She is a kind international.

[@danmart7135]

@@zoranpetrovic7257 Both ;-)

[@richardherbst488]

She'd bring tears to George's eyes! He'd rearrange for her.

[@jude4jazz]

I've never heard of this girl before - found this quite by chance - all I can say is that she's fantastic - so talented and so young! Now I'm going to listen to her other videos.

[@jesserussell7242]

That is just one of the greatest versions of the George Gershwin classic Liza that I have ever heard. Stephanie keep on tickling those ivories I think you and your husband Palo make a great try team both of you are my favorite pianist one of my favorites anyway besides Art Tatum James P Johnson among other great stride pianist.

[@larryhjerpe10]

Wonderful entertainment.a pleasure to hear ,and music that is joyous and uplifts spirits and heals making people happy with such God given talents.

[@aknabea]

You are just great!!! Thanks so much for your music!!!!!!!!!!!

[@TheSapanone]

Excellent video, great sound recording! And Stephanie - what more shall I say... She is a goddess, travelling around the world making people happy. I don't forget George Gershwin. Great, great composer and musician!

[@beverleye7853]

Just fantastic wonderful playing . You are a very talened , gifted young lady

[@mikern2001]

George is looking down, and smiling. Big grin. HUGE GRIN.

[@lenlaviolette]

Excellent! Gershwin genius played with soul!

[@VicAmor1944]

Stephanie Trick and George Gershwin go well together!

[@faalonglongwaytorun]

Oh wow...I absolutely love this arrangement!

[@WheresMyFlyingCar]

Really great, love the arrangement!

[@girvanpaterson1098]

WOW! Now THAT'S talent! Beautiful girl too.

[@aknabea]

I would love to have a QRS piano roll cut by you on a piece like this one. It is fantastic!! You never cease to amaze me with your gifted playing!!

[@bvscfanatic]

"Stride piano" is a technique popularized by James P. Johnson and Fats Waller that involves the playing of bass chords with the left hand while playing melody (often improvised) with the right hand. Johnson was the master, and Fats was his disciple. Stephanie executes "stride" with great elegance and control.

[@MrCrowebobby]

Great technique but a touch too soft and "polite" for me. Would have given 20 years of my life to have had her skill though.

[@PiotrBarcz]

not quite the accurate description. Stride piano was an offshoot of ragtime where a march bass line in the left hand was played while a syncopated right hand melody was also played. Stride piano took this further by adding heavy improvisation over the right hand and dropping most of the 1 and 3 beat bass notes in the march bass line about an octave or two down imitating an upright bass. The octaves were almost always not present unless used for emphasis. The bass notes also followed the melody of the tune.

[@aknabea]

One of my favorites that you play!!1

[@PeterSchips]

A beautiful young woman with big talent !

[@rovingeye5]

man, you really started to "swing" when you came in with the "stride" -I love this song-thanks for the post- good improv!

[@Italblessings]

Fantastic.

[@NiceOldBoy]

Why didn't I practice, when I was young??? Thank you for the music! ;-)

[@blackwingy]

Ummm....amazing! What else can one say? Wow.

[@philippevinot4798]

Un exemple de respect du style ET de l'esprit du morceau !! bravo

[@tophatandtails]

Clean!!

[@todd3386]

Wow, I was looking around for versions of this tune, listened a bit with ho hum impression until she cut loose with the full stride at about 2:00. She really rocks this one!!

[@peterdare6843]

One of the great pianists around to-day, Frederick Hodges, once famously said of Stephanie, "She plays like a 300 pound black man." When you think about it, that's high praise indeed. And she has only got better over the years.

[@josemanuelgarciacheda4866]

Si queréis , podeis comparar la interpretación que hace de "Liza" su propio autor (Gershwin) con la de S. Trick. Qué abismo infinito! Y, sin embargo, también Gershwin, componiendo, es, sencillamente genial. Dos maravillas¡

[@17bobbyboy]

Yikes. To any pianists out there, listen to when she starts the stride rhythm about 1:16. She uses that sustain pedal so sparingly. She doesn't slop through anything at all. Rock solid left hand and right hand technique.

[@dchawcroft]

christ almighty. i started out tonight following the trail of earl bonie on clarinet and somehow wound up with stephanie... now i don't think i'll ever need to go anywhere else..... that might be a bit of an exaggeration but you know what i mean... she is something else again..... i mean, even the videos all seem to have a good quality of recording... all the numbers she plays seem to be 'good' numbers (that's gotta be subjective, surely).... and we've covered some years.... her hair is shorter in this vid than any I've seen so far and I saw a comment she's married now... yet it all seems to be of the same quality..... you don't get that much, following youtube vids of some performer... lovely, lovely, lovely....

[@josiah566]

@rtpress Teddy Wilson also did an excellent version with his Orchestra which I found out about on the album Gentleman of the Keyboard. Just piping my know-it-all mouth in there. :D

[@bigknoxy777]

teddy Wilson pure brill,

[@stevecerri973]

Love the James P. Johnson reference at 2:50

[@giovanniivanosapienza5743]

from 1,16 we fly!!!😍😂

[@josiah566]

@brabazon10 the lines are kind of loose when we refer to pianists from the 30s. Fats Waller and James P. Johnson, although being stride pianists, also used some boogie piano in their songs, and Art Tatum (as well as Teddy Wilson) often play with a more lyrical style that most people like to call "swing piano". I think that calling Art Tatum a stride pianist is really the best we can do, since that was one thing he seemed to do consistently for his career.

[@rtpress]

You might want to google "Harlem Stride" to find out a little more about the music style. Other famous Stride piano players who have recorded the piece include James P Johnson, Art Tatum, and Donald Lambert.

[@BerlinBo]

The Secretariat of stride. His feet were made to run, her fingers were made to play.

[@CBLOVE2856]

she improvised yes

[@TheRoneZone]

FIRST OF ALL....who is this? And why haven't I heard of her before?....SECOND OF ALL...who is this? And why haven't I heard of her before? haha. Amazing stuff!

[@geraldjampol3120]

This rivals Johnson's version.

[@brabazon10]

you're doing Art Tatum a disservice by calling him a stride pianist. He was plain n simple a pianist who just happened to be a genius, and didn't fit in to any particular genre. Stephanie Trick is one brilliant pianist who's carrying on the stride tradition.

[@helmut4lyfe]

dude she's in her 20's..

[@motus]

very good playing, not my favorite arrangement, but it's a good tribute to the song

[@grandelfe]

I'm throwing away all of my recordings of players over 10 years old.Little kids play the best.You make up for the total lack of phrasing, by zillions of quick little notes.

[@Huckabeezer]

Stephanie combines several playing styles in this piece....The stride part of her playing starts at 1:18. If you're familiar with James P. Johnson, the second half of this version should sound familiar to you from his late 1940's recordings. Steph is already one of the premier stride artists in the world....

[@Huckabeezer]

@grandelfe I take it that you can't stand Luckey Roberts and his zillions of little stride notes?

[@VicAmor1944]

Stephanie Trick and George Gershwin go well together!