Regardless, many of the most famous jazz pianists vocalized -- Bud Powell and Oscar Peterson to name a few. You can hear vocal sounds from pianists on a lot of jazz albums if you listen closely.
Sometimes the musicians are making these noises, but we just can't hear them because of how the session was recorded. Some classical pianists, like Glenn Gould , also did it. Gould claimed these auditory occurrences were unconscious. When Gould was a child, his piano teacher tried to cut this idiosyncrasy, but nothing seemed to work.
This little audio treat comes to us from The World According to Sound. Now if somebody could only invent Noise Reduction that would remove extraneous arpeggios from piano recordings. Let it loose on Bobby Enriquez and Dorothy Donegan recordings and see what's left Posted 12 May There are a bunch of others as well - Garner, O. French pianist Pierre-Alain Goualch is vocalizing so loud that you barely hear his piano, which is however very inspired and innovative.
As I can't get focused on smthg else while listening to this music, I tend to avoid it no matter good the music is.
Whatever Bud Powell I had was sold years ago. I don't recall specifically why I sold them but I trust my decision that I didn't enjoy listening to them enough to keep them.
Now that you mention it, I do seem to recall his moaning behind the music. It may have had a lot to do with the selling decision. I've actually just gotten into Monk in the last month or so and of the 5 discs I have, I don't recall his vocalizing to be that prevalent to where it bothered me though I do recall hearing it.
If you have to listen closely to hear it or if it's not especially notable is one thing but with Jarrett, his vocalizing is out there, prevalent, competing with the music.
Jarrett's ego may not allow it but if I were the engineer on the recording I would do everything I could to bury or eliminate the vocalizing which mars what would otherwise be wonderful recordings.
I guess I envy those of you who can listen to it without being bothered. I can't get past it. If it were possible to vocalize with your lips wrapped around a mouthpiece, you would hear a lot more--it is for some musicians a natural thing. Sensible microphone placement can at least reduce it.
When I produced a session with Earl Hines in a Chicago, we used a club The Bird House, closed for the occasion rather than a studio Riverside was on a tight budget. Earl wanted to include a couple of vocals, so we had a mic set up for that. Unfortunately, the clowns who engineered the session left the microphone open throughout, so the solos--and he rendered a particularly interesting one on "A Monday Date"--contained utterances that otherwise would not have been heard.
I wonder if any jazz ppl have been asked about this? As in, do they realize, and if it isn't unconscious, why do they do this? I'm a jazz pianist and I've noticed that when I sing when I play, it changes my playing a lot.
Hearing myself sing what I play while I play it somehow externalizes the music more than just playing it; when I sing something it usually comes out closer to the way I mentally intended it than it would on piano, so that helps me keep the direction of the solo and decide on the next thing to play.
Basically I think it's a way of getting closer to my subconscious. Before you ask: Yes, Jarrett does that distracting uvular thing of his here and there, especially noisily at one juncture on "Body and Soul. Jarrett is infamous for demanding abject silence from audiences in live performance, and even though I applaud him for so, the irony is that once he starts "singing" along with himself, it's him you wish you could shush.
Jazz pianists who make weird humming noises during their improvisations. Message Bookmarked. This is very widespread isn't it? Who started this egregious affectation? Keith Jarrett? I think it's just a by-product of improvising, but with Jarrett it became a lot more pronounced. Glenn Gould doesn't fit into anything ever. Wasn't Monk was doing this as well as clapping and singing and dancing along long before Jarrett?
Herbie Nicholls, maybe. Speckled Red! Most users should sign in with their email address. If you originally registered with a username please use that to sign in. To purchase short term access, please sign in to your Oxford Academic account above.
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