Jazz piano solo and musical/historical discussion of the jazz standard “Alright, Okay, You Win,” popularized by Count Basie and Joe Williams, with a different way to focus on walking bass lines.

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General thoughts on learning jazz standards 0:00
Interpretive approaches to “Alright, Okay, You Win” 0:31
Focusing on “swinging” with the left hand walking bass line 1:08
Melodic imitation between the two hands in a jazz context 2:01
Left hand comping 2:27
Using a left hand quarter-note boogie-woogie pattern 2:46
Varying the left hand boogie-woogie rhythms 3:00
Leaving lots of space between the right hand improvised phrases 3:21
Referencing the melody 3:58
Minor Pentatonic scale 4:13
Harmonica-like bluesy tremolo 4:30
Bebop phrasing 5:04
Thelonious Monk-inspired rhythmic displacement and pianistic flourish 5:39
Blues Scale 5:47
Returning to the melody, over a pedal point in octaves 5:42
Imitating the Count Basie band on piano 6:02
Personalizing the boogie left hand style 6:17
Challenging ourselves by learning new tunes 7:20

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Ron

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