OT: Keith Emerson jamming with Oscar Peterson

[pmfan57]

I guess this was a show Oscar had. Mick Fleetwood on upright bass and
Carl Palmer on drums believe it or not. What a change when the real
jazz trio of OP's takes over.

OP was so locked in this groove the second he starts playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZvQIobg0BwU

[pmitc...@hotmail.com]

How weird! Like a murky old sepia photo suddenly turing into vivid
colour when the sections and soloists change. BTW, I can't imagine
what Mick Fleetwood would be doing on the tree. Looks suspiciously
like Roy Babbington from Soft Machine to me.

Paul

[Phil]

Thanks -- that was fun to watch. I don't think that's Mick Fleetwood
on bass either.

Emerson's piano, though a grand, has a curious "barrellhouse piano"
sound to it. I don't know anything about pianos -- is it detuned a
little to get that effect?

[pmfan57]

I was just guessing on Fleetwood. That trio sounds so rinkty tink
compared to OP's. But to be fair, he is playing boogie woogie and OP
is playing jazz, leaving aside for the moment just how incredibly
great OP is.

[marks...@gmail.com]

Yeah, the rockers are trying to rush. :) That's the Meade "Lux" Lewis
tune on the Smithsonian collection.

BTW I just found out from the DVD that Meade "Lux" Lewis is the piano
player in the bar in Pottersville in "It's a Wonderful Life".

Mark Smart
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[Dave]

> Yeah, the rockers are trying to rush.

If Palmer was on drums, they had no choice. I don't know about now, but
back in the ELP days his time was terrible--always rushing. Good thing
Emerson had the chops to keep up!

[Keith Freeman]

> Looks suspiciously
> like Roy Babbington from Soft Machine to me.

I can't confirm that either way, but I did see Roy play with the Stan
Tracey Quartet several years ago and he was fantastic. Great time, great
lines, wonderful sense of humour in his solos. I have a very fine LP of the
Tracey & Babbington duo playing Ellington on the Mole label, though I don't
know if it's ever been released on CD.

-Keith

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[Des Higgins]

That was a BBC (I think? or I saw it on BBC) show from the 70s called
Oscar Peterson and Friends. Every week, Oscar would invite a "friend"
on to play with. I saw it when it came out when I was maybe 15 or
16. At that stage I was just about growing out of ELP (had been my
favourite band) and was getting in jazz a little. OP introduced KE as
"another pianist that I have a great respect for" or something like
that and I tried to get my folks to hear that so they wouold realise
the "noise" I was listening to was actually serious music. It failed
because before they played in the studio they showed a quick video
clip of KE at an ELP gig with a seat belt on playing a rotating piano.

Des

[Des Higgins]

ok, it was this clip or similar (KE on rotating of "flying" piano).
http://youtube.com/watch?v=uSm5IQFaTZA

It is simultaneously one of the most impressive and one of the
silliest things I have ever seen.

Des

[marks...@gmail.com]

Yeah, I really love ELP (despite Carl Palmer rushing all the time).
Tarkus is one of my favorite albums. But I can do without the rotating
piano and using the Moog ribbon controller for, well, you know:

http://homepage.mac.com/alimar/.Pictures/Emerson-3.jpg

Mark Smart
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