All The Things You Are
The other week I had the pleasure of seeing Bill Charlap play piano at the Catalina Jazz Club.
Bill is a phenomenal New York based jazz pianist who rarely travels west of the Mississippi. He has the ability to play like Art Tatum, Bill Evans and Errol Garner all rolled into one. This video, recorded at a radio station KPLU in 2012, gives you a little sense of his talent.
In 2000, he was signed to Blue Note Records and received two Grammy Award nominations, for Somewhere: The Songs of Leonard Bernstein and The Bill Charlap Trio: Live at the Village Vanguard. They are both wonderful recordings
In this video Bill takes on two jazz standards, and gives a little talk in between the two songs. Ellington's Sophisticated Lady rounds out the set.
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