Easy Living

TEXT: [email protected] piano over sequenced bass and drums
MARKER: Improvised piano over sequenced bass and drums
MARKER: Chords arpeggiated downwards
MARKER: 'Surrounding' Dm chord tones with neighbours
MARKER: Black note glissando on Ebm7 / Ab7
MARKER: Glissando ends on 1st Melody note of Bridge
MARKER: First a surround of the root of Fm7 then ...
MARKER: On Fm7/ Eb7, an Eb Major run
MARKER: Run finishes on the root of the Ebm7, on downbeat of Bar
MARKER: Surround Bbm7 chord tones with upper and lower n'bours
MARKER: On G#dim a whole/half dim scale
MARKER: On Eb7#11, the 5th and #11 alternate with chord tones
MARKER: 'Locked Hands' block chords - on Gm9 -  arpeggio
MARKER: Ab7 - a Db Major scale run
MARKER: Chord tones played rhythmically twice
MARKER: One of the Art Tatum runs on F7 (badly executed !)
MARKER: Short melodic idea is repeated over the turnaround chords
MARKER: Left hand  - short right on the beat chords
MARKER: Sort of quasi Errol Garner
MARKER: 3 note phrase moves up in scale steps
MARKER: Phrase on Fm7 - multiple notes  surround  the root
MARKER: On Dim chords- easy to arpeggiate 'locked hands' style
MARKER: LH rolls up onto bottom note of each chord inversion
MARKER: Last bit - LH plays chordsin triplets- 'classical' style
MARKER: 'Bluesy' figures over the final few bars
MARKER: LH and RH in unison play blues phrase
MARKER: F Maj7 - Bb7#11 - FMaj7#11  on Coda
  • Path: Disklavier Jazz 1/069-Easy Living 3.mid
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  • Updated: January 31, 2026

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