I'll be posting music transcriptions from this and other works of the great pianist and composer Jaki's Byard.
A story: We were in Boston to hear him play at the Regattabar and there was a power outage that night so it was cancelled. Well, he felt bad for us and played anyway- we migrated to the piano out in the lobby - a terribly substandard instrument- as we sat on the floor around the piano. It was such a generous act. Even though we were given refunds he knew we were there to hear him play. It was beautiful to see a musician of that calibre willing to set his ego aside and play for us regardless of the out of tune, bad piano.
When I hear him play I hear love and kindness.
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