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Doug Johnson Trio at The Mad Monkfish
Courtesy of Jamme K Chantler | Posted on June 1, 2017
Where
The Mad Monkfish
524 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA
Map
617-441-2116
When
Sun, June 18, 2017
6:00 pm
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Musicians
About
Doug Johnson, piano
Soso Gelovani, acoustic bass
Evi Slivnik, drums
“One of my specialties as a musician is to use odd meters: rhythmic patterns and groupings that are nontraditional in jazz, such as fives and sevens. A lot of students come to me specifically to learn that.”
“Whether it’s in private piano lessons, labs, or keyboard classes, I want my students to come away with a solid technical foundation. Good technique is important, not just for fluency but also to avoid getting hurt. Good technique, by definition, is efficient motion. It comes not just from the fingers, but also the shoulders and all the way down to the feet. The old Russian saying, ‘You play the piano from your feet,’ is really true. It would be absurd to believe you can lift a 60-pound suitcase with just your fingers. It’s equally absurd to think you play piano with just your fingers. Putting a key down requires little actual effort, so it’s not obvious that you require the feet as a support. But not using your feet makes it very easy to have inefficient motions.”...