Kei's Song - Jazz Piano Solo - David Benoit

#med (Music.Every.Day)

This is video #755 of my video posting project. I have been working on this project since November 2023--learning and posting a video of NEW piano music every. single. day!

Today's piece is "Kei's Song" by David Benoit. This arrangement can be found in Hal Leonard's collection of Jazz Piano Solos in the volume called "Best Smooth Jazz". This collection of jazz arrangements was written by Brent Edstrom.

I love this one! I used to subscribe to a magazine called Sheet Music Magazine and every month I would look forward to playing through new music. (I miss this magazine!) So I did play the "original" arrangement of this in one of those issues when they spotlighted this song. Back then--didn't have YouTube, so I never heard what it was supposed to sound like. It has some tricky rhythms, but a beautiful flow to it.

This song was written by David Benoit, for his wife, Kei. Beautiful piece--you can feel the love! Brent Edstrom puts a nice spin on it -- with a bit of an expanded solo section with some lovely "noodling". Not the easiest arrangement to do, but it was a good challenge!

Tune in tomorrow for more of my #music.every.day experiment!