Pure Imagination-Blues Etude

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7 жыл бұрын

One of my favorite songs, combined with a tribute to the great Oscar Peterson! Audio and video by the great Justin Rollefson! www.justinrollefson.com

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@dtetech4061 11 ай бұрын

Did my dude really scratch his nose at 4:16 without the slightest hiccup to his tempo or played notes? That's ABSURD talent, this needs WAY more views!

@randomcitizen9909 11 ай бұрын

It would take an equal amount of talent to not scratch his nose and deal with the itch and maintain the tempo or notes played.

@happypercussionist1 9 ай бұрын

@@randomcitizen9909And nobody would know if he didn't scratch his nose..

@Shift2Movies 8 ай бұрын

I agree! After about the 4:30 mark his playing goes up into the stratosphere!

@Mehdi-qp1tz Жыл бұрын

How does this performance of a lifetime only have 20k views? it deserves so much more exposure

@FriPilot 11 ай бұрын

People were turned off by the high treble notes on the piano. Definitly not a Steinway. It's a Yamaha with lockwashers. (A Bosendorfer.. owned by Yamaha)

@Mehdi-qp1tz 11 ай бұрын

@@FriPilot sounds good enough for my untrained year. finally an upside of not being born with perfect pitch haha (or just not being sharp enough to notice these subtleties). but still, I think the raw talent here outweighs non-optimal sound. this is the single best iteration of Pure Imagination I've ever heard in my entire life. it's been saved on my phone and on repeat for almost a year now. I would love to have the music sheet some day.

@FriPilot 11 ай бұрын

@@Mehdi-qp1tz That was more of a joke than anything. I'm just a big believer in Steinway.

@mitchelldortch794 10 ай бұрын

Don't worry, the views will grow.

@howard555 10 ай бұрын

first time watching. i agree

@1515327E Жыл бұрын

Lovely rendition of Pure Imagination and then: Blues at 1:19 Boogie-Woogie at 2:49 Honky-Tonk at 3:33 Jazz a l’Oscar 4:17 Plus others…beautiful.

@-AndAllThatJazz.. Жыл бұрын

oh aye . . diamond beauty 🤩

@andrewgarcia5675 11 ай бұрын

I've watched this 5 times in the last hour, the rendition is so good. The change to blues and the reaction of the two ladies at 1:19 is great.

@Shift2Movies 8 ай бұрын

I watched it twice in a row W/O getting bored!

@timotejbernat462 3 жыл бұрын

I’d love a transcription of this, great performance

@chiefbeefofficer 6 ай бұрын

YES! The beginning call is everything and essential. So many covers I've listened to skip it al together.

@alexthompson6529 3 жыл бұрын

Legitimately amazing start to finish. Loved the Oscar stuff, but man I'd love to hear your take on Pure Imagination start to finish!! The bit you did play sounded so damn full and rich, lots of harmonic interest too... Ridiculously controlled and tasteful. Loved it!

@itmsjim 3 жыл бұрын

Agreed!! Loved the OP take, but yes on the ballad. Rich, harmonically wonderful. But the stride and boogie? Yes!!

@-AndAllThatJazz.. Жыл бұрын

Rollercoaster ride . Man sure beats high tide 🥸

@michaelsalcido3736 6 ай бұрын

At first I was like (w many others) how about some sheet music, them as it progressed, I was like I can do this, then, as more time advanced, I’m like, huh….no! This is, by far, beyond my level and I consider myself advanced. Whew! What a performance. Bravo 👏👏👏. And yes, the intro has nuances that many other (good) arrangements have, but this is original so he intro was great and unique as well.

@emforcarbean2549 9 ай бұрын

This is one of those songs that you either love or hate. Hard not to love this version. Very classy.

@michellevo6652 2 жыл бұрын

Back again in 2022 to this highly underrated arrangement of Pure Imagination. The change to blues at 1:19 will never fail to impress me :)

@aBachwardsfellow 9 ай бұрын

you may also enjoy this arrangement and performance (replace with "." and remove spaces): youtube com / watch ? v = ILNML7Ppnjs

@ModestNeophyte 9 ай бұрын

that first chord feels like childhood.

@mcrohof 7 жыл бұрын

First!!?? Well, *applauds* - it always warms my heart to hear an Oscar fan playing a tribute to the Giant. Thanks for the joy you have in playing and sharing!

@susanrayman2035 6 жыл бұрын

Wow!

@michaeljacksonearthangel5849 4 жыл бұрын

oscar peterson would be very proud of you. you are awesome, man....etude, indeed.....especially on his instrument of choice....the bosendorfer.....

@fullrusa 5 ай бұрын

Beautiful..🤍🖤🤎

@Shift2Movies 8 ай бұрын

OMG! With out question this man is among the greatest piano players of all time!

@Roger_L. 2 жыл бұрын

I can’t help to watch this video over and over again, just amazing performance !

@Idkmyusernamewtfbruh 5 ай бұрын

I wanna learn to play the piano just so I can perform this song for my kids whenever they’re in the dumps.

@ricardomorlarios4830 3 жыл бұрын

"A humbling experience"...Thank You...👍

@dynoroad Жыл бұрын

That last bit especially was mind blowing..

@mathuehodge312 Жыл бұрын

This is fantastic!

@PianoScenesMoviesandSeries 3 жыл бұрын

This is lovely

@karenschreiner-mccormack8219 6 жыл бұрын

Wonderful to hear such talent!

@walterscott2286 Жыл бұрын

Just exquisite! Piano Heaven. This guy is a pure natural. A Master of his craft who plays with unparalleled ease and flair! What a Joy!!👏👏👏👍

@stans2942 3 жыл бұрын

WOW. That was awesome.

@Eyran Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your wonderful, swinging, elegant and virtuosic performance! And what a heavenly piano🥰 Warm regards and best wishes, Eyran 🤗🎹🤗

@Shift2Movies 8 ай бұрын

I second that!

@pianoman0609 4 жыл бұрын

Beautiful performance!

@avrahamkorchia9660 2 жыл бұрын

Bravo ! perfect !

@lyndaunknown720 2 жыл бұрын

😳Absolutely fabulous!😊❤❤❤

@errepi75 Жыл бұрын

Brilliant! 👏👏👏

@brettonbuttered 9 ай бұрын

SUPER inspiring!!!! Love the variations!

@beawong911 9 ай бұрын

Love this brilliant performance ❤

@kenelliott8944 9 ай бұрын

Just amazing!!!!!

@brickrunner9279 11 ай бұрын

Well that took off! Amazing!!

@charlessmith3492 Жыл бұрын

OUTSTANDING!!!!!!!

@user-jp7hu3jh4e 3 жыл бұрын

This was superb, I reminisced about my childhood this was amazing. Thank you so much!!

@donnali8346 3 жыл бұрын

are you kidding? Absolutely fantastic!!

@nicholasb1471 4 жыл бұрын

First time I've seen someone use the extra Bosendorfer keys in a concert situation. Makes me feel excited inside.

@ZSYStriker Жыл бұрын

Huh? When was that? Timestamp?

@nicholasb1471 Жыл бұрын

@@ZSYStriker 3:17

@ZSYStriker Жыл бұрын

@@nicholasb1471 Are you sure about that? The video isn't clear and I don't hear it. This piece is composed I think -- not improvised. It's hard to believe the composer included bass note(s) that can't be played on a regular 88-key piano. Busendorfer Imperial was designed to play some of Bach's organ pieces that had bass notes that normal piano didn't have. I think Busoni wanted to play them.

@flippery321 Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! Apart from a few of the LH boogie woogie figures that pay homage to Oscar’s Blues Etude, everything else is actually fully improvised! Nothing was written down.

@ZSYStriker Жыл бұрын

@@flippery321 Wow, that's fantastic. So I have to ask. Did you play the Imperial bass notes?

@789armstrong Жыл бұрын

A brilliant performance of an unknown masterpiece.

@luis-azanza 9 ай бұрын

You are amazing!! Truly an inspiration to me 🥺 thank you!! Congratulations for the great talent and all the hard work 🙏🏻

@andrewwright6893 Жыл бұрын

Superb playing

@rastroredjoan3313 2 жыл бұрын

M'he quedat sense paraules,fantastic,maravellos,un geni,wowwwwww

@valerie_handani_pianist 2 жыл бұрын

Wow, this is really a super performance, very high fingering skill, master class melodic-line and groove, what a talent!!👍👍⭐⭐ Warm greetings and respect.🙏🙏🙏

@flippery321 Жыл бұрын

Thank you so much 😀

@valerie_handani_pianist Жыл бұрын

@@flippery321 It's a pleasure!🙂🙂 I am delighted to have found your wonderful KZfaq channel and watched its videos.🙂🙏🙏

@cohansen1779 4 жыл бұрын

Very nice and cool touch on the keys :-) It`s one thing...Oscar in the house .-) Give you 10 of 10...

@szoid 3 жыл бұрын

Bösendorfer is my favorite sounding grand. So deep and rich and melodic 😍

@MikeM91320 6 ай бұрын

Had to just get up and dance as this talented artist starting rolling! Loved the Pure Imagination opening...such a beaufitul song.

@davestahl6676 8 ай бұрын

Really beautiful, technically amazing

@theodoreplayspiano3029 9 ай бұрын

I love Oscar Peterson and you’ve done such a great tribute with this ! ❤

@dontheshark 10 ай бұрын

Astounding performance.

@bh5606 9 ай бұрын

Love it.

@cicholasnage Жыл бұрын

This absolutely needs more attention! btw, is it just me that thinks the majority of the listeners just looks so vegetative.. I mean if i was there i'd be tapping my foot like crazy😂

@gintarasmameniskis4980 Жыл бұрын

Bravo!

@harveyardman 6 жыл бұрын

Gorgeous

@mister088 6 жыл бұрын

WOW!!! splendid performance... Oscar meets Eldar meets Justin!!!! amazing.. Love the look on the brunette behind pianist trying to contain herself. well done!!!!! Keep going!!

@bobbyvan7770 4 жыл бұрын

These people are in the company of a WORLD CLASS musician, and the blonde looks like she is bored. This musician is FLAWLESS!!!!

@KTK-mm2wi 4 жыл бұрын

Amazing

@marquamfurniture 11 ай бұрын

Brilliant!

@j81851 9 ай бұрын

This song, the one man that could sing it in its context and the "feeling" it brings is all but lost to this heathen world where human life is devalued and truth is an inconvenient commodity. Willy Wonka and the Candy Factory was made I believe in 1971 just 52 short years ago (I was 20) Yet we have totally lost the magic of this wonderful film. It is amazing a bright young man like this can recreate that "magic" of a positive and inspiring atmosphere for a few moments. Gene Wilder was nervous he could not "capture" the magical moment in the movie as he wanted to (he was fully engaged in "being Willy Wonka") and worried it would not work. But the miracle of this almost eternal moment in the movie is it worked better than the wildest expectations and has stood the test of time. If you want those tingles, goose bumps, doo dads like back then just play the clip of World of Imagination. It's about as timeless as a group of humans can create.

@MarkKlett Жыл бұрын

Bloody awesome man!

@wyshwood 7 ай бұрын

Exquisite, sir.

@mushicram 4 жыл бұрын

¡Bravo!

@jerrybeaver4677 6 ай бұрын

Great arrangement

@paulwhetstone0473 3 жыл бұрын

From the sublime to the frenetic: a musical feast all the way. Josh should have been issued a speeding ticket towards the end, tho.

@reginamelopereira2660 7 ай бұрын

Sou Brasileira e amo ouvir essa canção no piano....belíssimo!!!!!

@Powerslider 4 жыл бұрын

Insta sub. Hats off to you sir!

@jameshernandez5766 Жыл бұрын

The girl to his right has the..would this guy finish all ready look.

@Sunseahl 2 ай бұрын

That Hermine Grainger's a really stuffy one, yea? xD

@madchef898 Жыл бұрын

YESSIR!!!!!!!!!

@theloganshow3602 6 ай бұрын

I think he likes Oscar Peterson 😂 Seriously though, absolutely amazing I really enjoyed this performance.

@moo639 4 ай бұрын

Wow!

@agt5jx87 Ай бұрын

Hey, you're pretty great at that piano thingy!

@Gimbergp 5 жыл бұрын

That escalated rather quickly

@StarWars5691 9 ай бұрын

this was stupidly good what the flib flab hecking goo nad somebody fan me

@jackd8602 9 ай бұрын

Here is one more!!!!

@JohnNyerges 6 жыл бұрын

Spectacular!! I know your brother but never met you. 2 great talents in the same family. What a pleasure to hear & see you play. This at Ithaca? Added fun to listen to since it's an excellent piano of course and the video/ sound is great too.

@flippery321 6 жыл бұрын

John Nyerges So great to hear from you-I am glad you enjoyed the performance! I actually studied with you way back in 2007 at a Summer at Eastman camp-this is actually at Arizona State University!

@joniverson8121 Жыл бұрын

This arrangement is terrific! I'm wondering if there's a print copy of it. I'd purchase it immediately. Kudos!

@Mehdi-qp1tz Жыл бұрын

I'M LISTENING TO THIS AGAIN AND AGAIN AND I DON'T HINK I'LL EVER GET BORED

@Mehdi-qp1tz Жыл бұрын

think*

@aBachwardsfellow 9 ай бұрын

ok - so we got about a minute and a half of development on the theme with a nice jazz waltz thrown in. Then we get blues and boogie woogie which has its own typical shape and form, bearing no resemblance to the theme or anything else except itself which, if that's what you like, fine. OTW it became mostly predictably monotous harmonic repetition of various jazz styles with some fairly nice technic thrown in along the way.

@Koko_mimi_mom Жыл бұрын

역시 잘하는 사람은 다 잘해.....

@stephenrobertson217 Жыл бұрын

How the hell do you learn to play like this ? Superb

@IrregularGuyYT 10 ай бұрын

This is a great example of how my explanations go: Starting off with the basic idea of what I'm trying to communicate in mind, until 1:19 into the subject, I think of something that is similar, but not quite as relevant; then by the end of it (about 10 minutes later), I have no idea where I am anymore or what my original point even was. XD

@Oisphoot 10 ай бұрын

That’s phenomenal man!!! I love the Oscar nod but also wondering what you could do with imagination for 6 minutes? I’m guessing it would be amazing if you ever decide to record it!! Please do !

@JoeLinux2000 9 ай бұрын

Very close to Oscar

@chromemox3319 9 ай бұрын

Hate how all the other musicians are just sitting there stone faced like they aren’t witnessing some absolute banger shit

@JakeBgood 9 ай бұрын

The string players silently judging and trying to count in their heads when he transitions to swing is hilarious 1:20

@lyndaunknown720 2 жыл бұрын

😳😮😮❤

@MrDriller36 11 ай бұрын

large portions of this are taken from Oscar's boogie, as played by the great Oscar Peterson

@michellevo6652 3 жыл бұрын

loved this arrangement!! do you have sheets for purchase?

@flippery321 3 жыл бұрын

Hi Michelle! Unfortunately at this time I don't have anything written down, but I'd be happy to talk to you about how I came up with some of the harmonies and the form itself! :)

@michellevo6652 2 жыл бұрын

@@flippery321 That's quite alright! I've never been too good at understanding music theory, but I just know that this arrangement was AWESOME. Listening to it from time to time brings me joy too :)

@user-jy1sp3xq2t 3 жыл бұрын

Here's really entertainment!

@no_i_dont_want_no_slugs 10 ай бұрын

i wish there was a place to get the sheet music, this is beautiful

@sdla10 8 ай бұрын

As if we could play it!

@no_i_dont_want_no_slugs 8 ай бұрын

@@sdla10 you can do (almost) anything you set your mind to, given enough time on this earth

@sdla10 8 ай бұрын

@@no_i_dont_want_no_slugs I think this pianist has demonstrated that

@novellmusicmedia6895 9 ай бұрын

Wow you swing

@RyanHDR 5 ай бұрын

Ellen Page in the back is impressed.

@marcellomarianetti1770 9 ай бұрын

Congrats man!! By the way I can't tell if the blonde girl behind you was super impressed or super unimpressed 😂

@darnfirefingers 4 ай бұрын

Maestro, do you happen to have written out the sheet music for this?

@IucidDreaming 3 ай бұрын

“Want to be a dreamer” favorite line from the song

@markbritton1295 Жыл бұрын

Love the blond girl who looks so bored and peed off that he’s got so much talent!!

@scotth1992 9 ай бұрын

True! 😂😂😂

@aahz42 6 ай бұрын

Incredible. I was kinda bored the first few minutes but it transformed into so much stuff. I think you were developing your own idea. I would rather listen to an improv hangout than some performance like this. Great thing though.

@donnali8346 3 жыл бұрын

this really does not seem humanly possible