Posted by Peter Monticup on 12/26/2022 to
Monticup's Music
AUTUMN LEAVES
Enjoy Peter's rendition of this classic played on his new Yamaha electric piano!
Jazz historian Philippe Baudoin called the song "the most important non-American standard" and noted that "it has been recorded about 1400 times by mainstream and modern jazz musicians alone and is the eighth most-recorded tune by jazzmen."
The song was recorded steadily throughout the 1950s by leading pop vocalists including Steve Conway (1950),[9] Bing Crosby (1950), Nat King Cole (1955), Doris Day (1956), and Frank Sinatra (1957). It was also quickly adopted by instrumental jazz artists including Artie Shaw (1950), Stan Getz (1952), Erroll Garner and Ahmad Jamal (separately in 1955), Duke Ellington (1957), Cannonball Adderley and Miles Davis, Vince Guaraldi (all 1958), and John Coltrane (1962, maybe earlier).
Roger Williams made the song a number-one hit in the U.S. in 1955, the first piano instrumental to reach number one.
4 Comments
Bob
Date
12/28/2022
Peter, you are so talented, not only as a magician, but playing the organ, too!! Wishing you and your family a very HAPPY NEW YEAR. Take care. Bob
Lorette Pinto
Date
12/28/2022
I enjoy your humor, magic and musical talent. Happy New Year Peter.
Guy lintner
Date
12/28/2022
Beautiful as always wish I could be able to play like that.
Mr. G.
Date
12/28/2022
Piano has a very nice sound. Hope the key action is decent. Peter played beautifully ! Thank you and happy new year!!!!