This is an impromptu piece, inspired by the beauty of a summer day. I hope you enjoy it and invite you to join my YouTube channel where you can view it here https://youtu.be/z5EmzZwYTow. Sheet music to be released soon at SheetMusic Plus where you can find all of my original music. ~Jackie Perks

Essence De L'été

My name is Jackie Perks and I am a classically trained pianist and composer.  To me, music is fantasy and also the greatest universal language that transcends space and time. Here I showcase all of my original works, which are a combination of raw improvisations and structured pieces.  People tell me that my music is a fusion of classical, jazz/blues, and sometimes with a New Age or cinematic sound and that it inspires and relaxes them. Music to me is essential, just like the air we breathe and I love to free my emotions by playing my piano and composing the music that I have heard playing in my head since I was 4 years old. In addition to my originals, you will also find classical pieces here that I have arranged myself.  In June of 2015, I was discovered on YouTube and one of my improvisational covers was used in an HBO Documentary. To see me playing live, please visit my YouTube channel. There you will find these original works, classical pieces and covers of many genres.  I also love to create videos to create ambiance and further drive the meaning and emotion behind my music.  I hope to see you there, too. http://youtube.com/classicaljams.  

Wishing you all much peace and love.   

With warmest regards,

~Jackie

"Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art". 

~Frederic Chopin

Hello and welcome. This is where I repost tracks I like. Enjoy !
Bonjour et bienvenue. C'est ici que je reposte les morceaux que j'aime. Bonne écoute !

My warmest thanks to everyone stopping by for listening to my tracks, the most of the representing a  'REVIEW   OF THE PAST TIME PIANISTS' INTERPRETATIONS ON THE HISTORICAL PIANO ROLLS, and in addition to them, also to a minor but growing  LISTS of MY MY OWN RENDITIONS, all of the latter representing a variety of piano music, & some pipe-organ classics, - and  TO THE Growing LISTS OF (just lately done and reproduced)  TRANSCRIPTIONS OF VARIOUS CHAMBER MUSIC CLASSICAL PEARLS FOR TWO PIANOS.
A HEADSET IS RECOMMENDED for optimal sound experience!
This kind of 'touching' on these old pre-sound-rec. era works by the great performers of the past, and giving my sound to these old 'punch rolls',  makes me feel  deep humbleness, .and I wish that this modest attempt to bring these  performances alive will satisfy you listening to them!
To introduce myself...
I am a Finnish M.D., PhD. and Hand Surgeon (now retired), previously when young with 10 years of professionally orientated piano studies at Turku Conservatory in 1965-1975, partly  along with medical University studies. 
The digital sound techniques have become very familiar to me already from 1980's along with my university research work  
and my musical activities.
As continuation to my musical and professional experience, I have, during the last few years of my retirement, adopted a music historical challenge
to bring the past time major and minor pianists, prior to sound-recording era, onto the same 'start line' with the present pianists, by making their presentations, played onto 'punch rolls' i.e. piano rolls, audible with modern digital techniques. This wouldn't be possible without the pioneering  efforts of Richard Stibbons, Wayne Stahnke, Terry Smythe, Warren Trachtman, Spencer Chase, and others, who developed the optical digitizing techniques of the piano rolls, and digitized them.

The main part of my recordings here in SC consists of selection recorded by me from optically digitized piano-rolls** (from 1910's on or earlier, classical and 'vintage era'). These recordings of mine are not and will not be commercially unavailable. - The rolls were first optically scanned and converted into a digital form by diverse operators** (see also to the info of each piece). The pieces here were partly (minor part) picked from various open net sources, publicly available, but mainly from the huge archive (n=ca.5000) of digitized copies copies of the original reproducing piano rolls, made available to me by one of the pioneers of roll digitizing tehchniques (willing to keep anonymous), and then recorded from this archive mainly with virtual grand piano (called by me 'Bluethner Model One') modified/re-designed by me, as well as the rec settings. 
Also a minor selection of my own renditions among my records can be found here, included on my playlist 'Bach Goes Virtual', the name of the list telling something about the techniques used for getting the end result... The list includes various organ works by J.S.Bach and others, and also a few piano renditions of mine. Then there are included also various pieces which have been in my repertoire, but here played mainly by the  'guest' great players of the past (before the sound recording era).
MY MOST HUMBLE THANKS TO THE NOBLE DONOR  OF THIS INVALUABLE PIANO ROLL MATERIAL FOR MY USE!!!
My Sincere Thanks also to The Player Piano Group, UK, for providing me their permission to use the information about the piano rolls collected and provided on their web page ( https://rolls.playerpianogroup.org.uk ),  and for simplifying my short historical presentations of these renditions on their re-publication here!
AND LAST BUT NOT LEAST, MY MOST HUMBLE THANKS TO EVERYONE  OF YOU FOR LISTENING, AND FOR YOUR 'LIKES' & COMMENTS !
YOUR LISTENING & FEEDBACK IS TRULY APPRECIATED..!!.
Use of good headphones or speakers will make your music experience more enjoyable!
Best wishes, all the best
Veikko
These recordings are not commercially available, and ANY KIND OF THEIR COMMERCIAL USE IS PROHIBITED.

I find it hard to communicate,sometimes only through the piano can I express what I truly feel. I love to write music for people who love to dream.
Thank you for taking the time to listen.
Kind regards.

Thank you for visiting my profile and spending a little time listening to some music I created.
Here you will find pieces I make along the way of trying to get better at writing emotional music for solo piano and orchestral cinematic tracks as well. 
I pretty much appreciate any comment, thought or message so please don't hesitate to share if you have one. :)

Music to me means a language to describe and evoke the deepest feelings we can't have words for. 
I also like to think about music as a way of painting where harmonies are colors, melodies and rhythms give shapes and contours and where the mind of the listener is the canvas.

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I'm a counter-clock wise guy when the speed does me in,
Right from the get go, I'm mad till the end...

I'm mean, lean, cruel, obscene... Not only am I Elvis, I'm also James Dean.

ღahan 💀 ღahan, the bass player of the not-so-legendary Los Angeles based grunge band of the 1990's "Toxic Daisies" nowadays spends his time writing jingles for commercials never aired for products never sold in stores. Aside from the jingles, he also collaborates with other musicians and artists and produces musical tracks and posts them on SoundCloud. Long time sufferer of ADHD and a born-again atheist, he... (due to a sudden loss of interest, this bio has been left incomplete...!)

I ♡ Audiobake 




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...Namas`cray (the crazy in me recognizes and respects the crazy in you)

This is where Synthgrinder,  
is doing the REPOSTS from now on.
I am slowly but surely moving them from my original profile: https://soundcloud.com/synthgrinder-1 ,
And along the way, everyone gets an extra LIKE.

This is my channel for the beautiful music of my friends from the Soundcloud community

Essence De L'été

Jackie Perks - Pianist & Composer (Classical Jams)