You're Mine, You (Johnny Green, Edward Heyman)

Twentieth Century Blues

Blue Skies

Cokey

Bad Romance

Just One of Those Things

Just One of Those Things (Recorded Live at the Blue Note Jazz Club in Chicago, IL August 21, 1953)

Doodlin

Always nice to play these songs - mostly in the traditional idiom.  

This beautiful song is also the penultimate known recording of the legendary pianist Art Tatum and his Trio, October 1956 at Olivia's Patio Lounge, Washington (Import vinyl record Musidisc France, Jazz Anthology Series, 30 JA 5138).

According to our current knowledge, this number was recorded earlier as an Art Tatum piano solo by Norman Granz (MGM Records, December 29, 1953, Los Angeles) but also by Ray Heindorf (at his home in Beverly Hills, California, probably April 16, 1950)introducing an "unexpected" bridge - a performance which, moreover, after 1.5 minutes seamlessly flows into Turner Layton's "After You've Gone". 

We sincerely thank all listeners for rating our present partial rendition second highest ! 


Would You Like To Take A Walk (Harry Warren) (just The Final Part Of The Theme)

Uma versão de uma música que amo e sempre quis gravar...

Dream a little dream of me - Ella Fitzgerald

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Ladyva - 8 to the Bar [Blue Martin Records - BLM 339425]

DEUTSCH: (see below for English)
Ladyva begann im Alter von 14 Jahren mit dem Klavierspiel, inspiriert durch Musiker wie Jerry Lee Lewis, Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis und Nico Brina.

Zwei Jahre später stand sie zusammen mit ihrem Bruder Pascal Silva auf der Bühne. Es folgten Fernsehauftritte (Heitere Festival Zofingen, ZDF Fernsehgarten / Glanz und Gloria etc.). 2009 erschien ihr erstes Album. 2010 trat sie auf dem Bluesfestival in Basel auf. Auch in ihrer zweiten Heimat, in der Dominikanischen Republik, hat sie Erfolg. Sie absolvierte über 30 Fernsehauftritte.

Es  folgten etliche Boogie Woogie Festivals und Auftritte in ganz Europa. Am 6. September 2015 ist Ladyva für die Farewell Tour zum 80. Geburtstag von Jerry Lee Lewis engagiert worden und tritt auf im legendären Palladium in London. Ein absoluter Ritterschlag für die sympathische Schweizer Künstlerin aus Ipsach bei Bern.

ENGLISH:
Ladyva started playing the piano at the age of 14, inspired by legends such as Jerry Lee Lewis, Albert Ammons, Meade Lux Lewis and Nico Brina.

Two years later she joined her brother Pascal Silva to perform live on stage. This lead to TV broadcasted performances at festivals and on TV-Shows such as "Heitere Festival Zofingen" (Switzerland), ZDF Fernsehgarten (German TV-Channel), Glanz und Gloria (Swiss TV-Channel) and Boogie Woogie festivals all around Europe. On 6 September 2015 she gained her biggest success so far playing at the legendary Palladium in London to perform at the 80th Birthday and Farewell Tour of Jerry Lee Lewis.

Quite a career for the yound and talented Swiss girl from Ipsach in the canton of Bern.

Artist infos:
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8 to the Bar

Ladyva - 8 To The Bar

MD (retired), PhD, Jazz-mainstream-fan since the 1950's. Debut in 1968 as an amateur solo-pianist in Wassenaar, The Netherlands, during two cocktail parties at the home of Mr. W. R. Slee, Branch Manager of the First National City Bank, The Hague.  Former amateur-piano-player of the "House Town and Kitchen Washboard Players" - a Students New Orleans  Jazz Band at Leiden University. Occasionally sitting in with the "legendary" Leiden Bakerstreet Jazzband (they won the 2nd prize at the regional "Braassemconcours") - until the late 70's. 
In the autumn of 1971, however, this was temporarily alternated with accompanying (together with 12-string acoustic guitar player Mr. Bram Bol) the various stage actors in the Leiden amateur theater "Imperium" production : the musical "Grimmigheden" (based on Grimm's fairy tales), directed by the late Rein Edzard de Vries. This was well received (some newspaper reviews added, see below). 
In between, there was also time to sit in with “Padlás Puszta” (with Gerard “Bilstein” Bijlsma as the lead "primas" violinist, and Willem Raadsveld playing strongly-bowed double bass), the unforgettable Gypsy Quintet arising from the Leiden Student Choir and Orchestra Collegium Musicum (CM) in those years.  In this setting, an unmistakable nostalgia for the great Django Reinhardt's HCQ may have played some role too. In 1971 - 1972 (years of our Medical Master's) attending live performances by Mr. Ben Webster, receiving his signature and compliments, which proved to be true the rest of our lives. 
As a pianist accompanying, during rehearsals and a concert performance, the choir "Con Amore" (directed by Mr. Siem Cok) in our birthplace. Earlier, however, in 1966 with our father Jan, we had already been choral singers ourselves, in the street-evangelization-based interdenominational a-capella "Zaaiweekkoor" directed by Mr. H. J. ("Bert") Lemkes (a cousin of the renowned Dutch violinist Bouw Lemkes). 
From 1972 solo pianist again, e.g. during wedding receptions, like the one in Aerdenhout, The Netherlands, at the home of pioneering Dutch cabaret performer & dentist Mr. Chiel de Boer in 1974. By the way, our great-aunt Anna was married to industrialist and amateur folksinger-songwriter Mr. Jan van Riemsdijk, whom she accompanied at the piano. See also http://www.lohuizerbrink-epe.nl/collectie/veluwse-plaatsen/heerde/jan-van-riemsdijk-op-de-tippe-heerde-detail.html
From 1975 - 1979 trying out the swing jazz combo format with (semi-)professionals, such as Willem Raadsveld (bass) (not to forget our other influential amateur bass players like Johan de Kok and Ton de Goeij), and Alwin Schogt (clarinet).
Some more influences: our neighbour upstairs (1975-1977), living in the attic on the premises, playing trombone and musical saw in "The Original Michigan Ramblers of ArraWarra".

From 1980 pianist of the "Jazz Club Paramaribo" (leader Jan Simons, arranger Humphrey "Speen" Linscheer), also forming a local jazz trio with Eddy Li-Fo-Sjoe (sax) and Eddy Weltevreden (bass) in the Republic of Suriname, South America, until 1983. For a recent more historical review, see: https://www.academia.edu/66406763/K_J_van_Zwieten_2021_Facilitating_Dancing_for_Health_Retrospective_of_Some_Swing_and_Dance_Bands_in_the_West_Indies_1941_1981
 
Recently sitting in with two colleagues (who play bass and drums) as a background jazz trio, at the reception of their annual national assembly. While preparing for two upcoming local gigs (May/June 2015), the present series of solo recordings was realized. 
All added photographs were made at public performances (with free admission) over the years. 

A recent newspaper report of a 2015 local outdoor performance during a rainy April night with the slogan 'Music connects people', can be found at http://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/blboz_01658139
Next activities included guest appearances (“background piano music”) at Café De Pianist http://english.cafedepianist.nl/ Amsterdam, Summer 2016, and on August 1st, 2018 (for previous sets : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x4uk0da).

Especially in jazz-inspired piano music, to our opinion, there should be some hints of recapitulation - like in biology, ontogeny often contains elements of phylogeny. By playing piano this way, we can pay tribute to the musicians before us, who invented this wonderful kind of music ! Now to finish - freely paraphrasing St. Paul's advice to "remember those who led you" - ranged in chronological order my teachers in classical (piano) music were: Wouter de Jong, Cor de Man, Jan van der Meer, Mita Olaerts, Chantal Bohets (and Theo Paradis & Frans Vanbekbergen), Willy Appermont, Rudy Froyen and Hugo Lismont, plus our parents and brother Jan and sister Reina.

Would You Like To Take A Walk (Harry Warren) (just The Final Part Of The Theme)

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