![]() I'm almost inclined to put you on my "not to be taken seriously" list, except I don't have one, yet. He varies his tempo as well, but almost exactly opposite of the way I chose to vary mine! Ha-ha!!! Try singing along with his version! And he gets ANGRY at the end, too. Now that I hear Jarrett playing it (which is, as you know, a different version than the one you linked to for me to listen to, as we started this exchange in the Shearing thread) I am even more perplexed. Keith Jarrett "Over The Rainbow" version which Grossnick transcribed and which I got to know by reading the score and without listening to Keith Jarrett playing it, a score with no dynamic markings and a simple "tempo rubato" at the top. These sentences are truly perplexing to me. I would listen to Jarrett's recording for an example of what I think is near perfection in this area. I think sometimes you play the piece not the way you would sing it. I would think about shaping/voicing of the melody and chords. So, there are about 18 out of 70 measures in six different sections that I changed.Ģ. When I saw that idea, I decided to take it there more definitively with some of the changes that I made to the transcription and in my playing of it. It seemed as though he was trying to take a pretty little song about wishful thinking and take it to a new level, so that "Over the Rainbow" would speak of the arc of life and confronting one's own mortality. ![]() In getting to know this version and in experimenting with changes based on a few little things that rubbed me the wrong way, I began to see better what Keith Jarrett was trying to say in his interpretation. You can follow that drama in the George Shearing thread, where this recording is cross-posted.īy Arlen/Harburg, a Friedrich Grossnick transcription of a Keith Jarrett improvisation/interpretation, re-arranged a little and played by me on "The Mighty Lester" 36" spinet. I owe Pianoloverus thanks for insisting that I take a closer look at the Jarrett version, after professing my love for the George Shearing arrangement.
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