The Summer a Blackbird Sang

[ted]

The final few minutes of yesterday's very long, rather blue reverie.

[dogperson]

Very nice, Ted
Perhaps it should be called ‘Blackbird mourning winter ‘

[ted]

That's the quickest response I have had for ages. Thanks for listening. I suppose poor David April and Keith Jarrett could have had some bearing on it, although not consciously. There really is a blackbird actually. He sits on top of the chimney, converses with my treble and has an unusually large vocabulary for a blackbird. So I have been recording mostly at night.

[j_tour]

Very inventive:  it's a disservice to you to compare to Keith Jarrett or somebody else.  I like this better.

Fluent, coherent, and indeed evocative.

If anything, it reminds me of blackbird singing in the dead of night.

I won't apologize for this, but I'm going to use some of your ideas for my own stuff, when I get around to it.

I particular like the LH quick runs/smears on the whole tone scale (well, there's a lot the LH does, but at various points)....yep....I'll be listening to this more than once and try to abscond with some of the lessons.  One of the lessons is how flexible one might be, regarding distribution of voices and chords between the hands.  At some point, I think most people would agree, there's no such thing as RH/LH:  it's a coöperative effort, and this is a marvelous illustration of that principle.

Yeah, I consider your recording a kind of lesson in piano, as it can be played. 

As such, you deserve recompense, but all I can offer is thanks for the thorough schooling in some possibilities.

[ted]

Very inventive:  it's a disservice to you to compare to Keith Jarrett or somebody else.  I like this better.

I expressed myself ambiguously. I was not referring to the actual music of April and Jarrett, but to the horrible things which recently happened to both of them and the possible unconscious effect on me at the time of playing.

...there's no such thing as RH/LH.. 

Musically I entirely agree. Either hand is liable to do duty anywhere at any time. It sometimes seems to me I have one big hand with ten fingers.

Yeah, I consider your recording a kind of lesson in piano, as it can be played. 
As such, you deserve recompense, but all I can offer is thanks for the thorough schooling in some possibilities.

As I have frequently stated, anybody anywhere is welcome to my entire improvisational output. The catch is that over five hundred hours of decent quality mp3 needs physical posting of a 64gb USB stick, internet sites being inadequate.

I have seldom tried teaching and never for money. I don't think I am much good at it aside from the one glaring success of "Derek" on this forum. But the ineluctable drive to create was in him from the start so I don't think I did much.

Thank you for listening and for your kind words, rather too kind I think. I am very pleased that you find features you can use in your own music.

[quantum]

That blackbird could write a couple operas with the wealth of music expressed.  There were many ideas, but somehow they all seem related, connected in a meta relationship.  I liked the ending, it seemed to connect everything together. 

Very enjoyable!

[ted]

Thanks for listening Neil. Of course it is inevitable that a player will prefer some recorded improvisations to others over the years, and I am quite pleased with this one myself although I cannot claim any rational basis for it. I was very tired that night and my technique was not up to much owing to training and labouring in the garden all day, so I do recall a greater concentration on purely aural feedback while playing. Perhaps I should take that approach more often.