![]() ![]() There’s less “soloing” in this one and more “playing with the band.” At times you almost don’t quite realize that he’s playing with everyone else–something just seems slightly off. Part 2 (3:09) has a riff that Jon tries to follow and fails to play spectacularly. Midway through the song, bassist David Finck takes a cool upright bass solo and you can hear Jon shout “play it Joe” or something like it. All of the solos are horribly inept and pretty funny. The band even pauses a few times to give him a proper solo or four. ![]() “I Can’t Play Piano Part 1” (3:39) starts off with a rollicking sax solo and some bouncing jazz and then Jon’s tinkling at the high end of the piano. There are four main pieces on the disc “I Can’t Play Piano” Parts 1-4. There’s a vulgar joke (which I found really funny), but which makes the track unplayable for family gatherings (if you were to do such a thing). Kristen Schaal as the secretary get a very funny joke or two, but the devil (Aziz Ansari) explains that usually selling your soul is a last resort, not a first step. It includes a skit at the front called “Deal with the Devil.” It is a really funny introduction in which H. And yes, his playing sometimes sounds like an improv pianist deliberately plying wrong notes until the right ones come back into focus (although Benjamin’s never do come back in to focus). Obviously, part of the joke is that Benjamin hates jazz and this pretty much mocks improv piano. He’s certainly bad, but he’s bad within the ballpark, which makes this amusing to listen to and not intolerable. It’s not like cats on a piano playing utterly random crap. ![]() Meaning, when he plays a solo he is at least trying to sound like he’s playing a solo. It’s hard to believe that Benjamin has never played at all before, because while he’s not good by any definition, he certainly knows how to press the keys on the piano in a reasonable way. However, he has employed the talents of Scott Kreitzer (saxophone), David Finck (bass), and Jonathan Peretz (drums) to assist him. He did this despite not knowing how to play piano. Jon Benjamin released a jazz album on which he played piano. SOUNDTRACK: JON BENJAMIN JAZZ DAREDEVIL–Well, I Should Have…* *Learned How To Play Piano (2015). ![]()
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