Laura
It’s time for some jazz! Here’s me playing “Laura” (composed by David Raksin) on my Casio Privia PX-830 digital piano. It was adapted from the theme of the 1944 film “Laura” directed by Otto Preminger. Lyrics were written by Johnny Mercer. It has become a jazz standard with over four hundred known recordings. The best known versions are by Frank Sinatra, Woody Herman, Dick Haymes, Charlie Parker, J.J. Johnson and Julie London. I hope you like it!
High quality audio track of this video is available for download at SoundCloud.
Technical details: the video was recorded using a Kodak Zi8 pocket camcorder (at 720p), cut and H.264 reencoded at 4000 Kbps using MediaCoder. The audio was recorded (at 48 kHz / 24-bit) using Ableton Live Lite 7 while running the Casio PX-830s L/Mono Line Out to a Line 6 POD Studio GX and got FLAC encoded using MediaCoder. Video and audio were combined using MKV Toolnix.
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I just heard this lovely rendition of Laura … absolutely beautiful.
I am just learning piano, and have a much simpler score by Dan Fox [words greatest standards]. I was wondering if you could tell me where I could get the sheet music that you used; unless you were playing it by ear of course ??