History of Jazz - Part 4

So you see there are many styles of jazz as we're trying to show you there There's some that sound that use elements of the music that you're very familiar and some that use elements that You maybe are not as familiar as perhaps you should be when I play the piano. I like to do things that Reflect both the jazz tradition and the European classical tradition that I studied I'll show you how I put those some things together sometime For instance just to give you an idea of some of the things that happen in jazz. There's a style of jazz that has the kind of a ragtime accompaniment Now that kind of That's called stride piano and it's a the accompaniment to an older style one of the first styles of jazz As a matter of fact be very first style of jazz You may be more familiar with that accompaniment when you hear it like this So you know when I play the entertainer that's what I was using now When I do other things for instance, there's another kind of Accompaniment that was used back in days when Teddy Wilson was playing with the Benny Goodman quartet and they were playing really fast jazz These are playing things like this Now so the left hand was just running all over the place Like that and so that was one kind of accompaniment when I play jazz sometimes I use one sometimes I use another but Sometimes I use something that kind of goes really back to Studying piano when I had to learn things Things like that. Well, what do you do with that if you're gonna be a jazz musician? Sometimes you do something like this [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music]