The impression im getting from u guys is that ure v big on classical piano but im interested 2 hear from any jazz pianists. Can you recommend any jazz tunes to play or listen 2?
And all you classical pianist maybe u could try and get me to see your point of view? What are the good things about classical piano?
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Rosie- from bonny scotland

I enjoy playing both Classical and Jazz music... It depends on what, though.
In Classical I like powerful stuff like Rachmaninov and airy stuff like Chopin, but I hate Bach...
Jazz is brilliant as well... Gershwin`s a great example, and Joplin is pretty nice as well.
I guess I enjoy playing both equally.

I play only classical because i find that its the only way to get really good. I`ve had my moments with jazz but jazz hasn`t got anything against classical unless you get into improv.

If you were to put Horowitz against a jazz pianist I would guess he could out-improv. him. Once I finish my classical training and bring my technique to its highest level i might go into some jazz.

My favourite jazz arrangemnts have all been done by Shearing; but I don`t know much about jazz.

jazz is for people that cant play their instrument properly especially piano

I bet Bach could out-improv lots of people.

My reasons for consistently choosing classical piano over jazz piano (both playing and listening), is that one is infinitely complex, passionate, and challenging to play well...while jazz piano is pretty much a matter of knowing a few scales and chords to play.

Obviously any of the master composers could out-improv. todays jazz artists. Beethoven improved at mozarts court when he was seventeen to which mozart responded, "Keep an eye on this one, he`ll make a noise in the world someday"

I would just like to know what today`s classical virtuosos can do in the field of improv.

I also agree that classical music has the complexities and emotions that jazz hasn`t heard of.

Jazz is more showy for the people who are too lazy to really develop technique and many aspects of styles.

Yo Olga, how could you hate Bach? His music is so beautiful! Some people don`t like him because his music sounds like a machine made them, but that`s the beauty of his music!

I would say that both are excellent in their own respects, where classical music provides powerful portrayals of emotion and jazz (mainly joplins ragtime music!:p) brings cool little tunes such as maple leaf rag, wall street rag and so on. It realy depends on which of the above you prefer.... and hey im from scotland too!!!

Where can I find jazz music for piano in the internet?

Let me put it into relative terms.

If you are interest in Jazz Piano, you should learn classical first. While classical pianists become virtuoso at their instrument, a very good jazz pianist must be virtuostic and be able to improvise. To better understand Jazz, when starting, You MUST KNOW your music theory well. You will find improvising isn`t very hard when you PRACTICE and understand the patterns. There is importance in understanding chord progressions and WHERE they go in order to improvise in good taste.

Many parallels can also be made between classical and Jazz. Forexample in a bach 4-part fugue or prelude could be translated into jazz. e.g. the top voice would represent the vocalist and the bass could represent the walking bass. THe middle section represents the actual piano part played by the pianist. Therefore when you think of playing jazz with the piano, you want to stay in that middle section of the keyboard, not interfering or doubling any notes of either the bass player or the soloist (can be a vocalist). Thus, when playing a chord (say Eb Maj 13) you would omit the bass Eb(bass player will usually play it) and play the inner voices (weird tones by themselves) which would be the, in this case, the 7th 3rd and the 6th in both hands. By itself (right out of a fakebook) this sounds kind of strange, but with a combo it fits together. This also adds the structure from which many vocalists will improv. Unless anyone is interested I will not proceed with any more technical babble.

-I prefer to be the constipated pianist (as classical pianists aren`t nearly as laid back as jazz)

First, I`m gonna set you all straight, dave your a cock, just cause you don`t like jazz doesn`t mean we can`t play our instruments, do you know Diana Krall? I`d like to see you go up to her and say "you`re sh*t at piano". And you don`t need to get ur FmusA to be able to improvise. Classical music has it`s beauty, and I can see how some people love it so much. But jazz it so much more alive in my view. You can just feel it so much more. And rosie do u have an msn?