Need help to identify song

It's a jazz piece from the movie Eyes Wide Shut. The song is not in the soundtrack, nor listed in the credits, nor posted on the imdb website. I posted on several movie forums but nobody knows what the song is. I hope someone on a jazz forum might recognize it. Thanks.

I uploaded a short video clip from the movie which plays the song in the background.

View the Video

Although it sounds like an older player, looks like it may be Brad Mehldau:

In addition to his trio and solo projects, Mehldau has worked with a number of great jazz musicians, including a rewarding gig with saxophonist Joshua Redman’s band for two years, recordings and concerts with Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden and Lee Konitz, and recording as a sideman with the likes of the late Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, John Scofield, and Charles Lloyd. For more than a decade, he has collaborated with several musicians and peers whom he respects greatly, including the guitarists Peter Bernstein and Kurt Rosenwinkel and tenor saxophonist Mark Turner. Mehldau also has played on a number of recordings outside of the jazz idiom, like Willie Nelson’s Teatro and singer-songwriter Joe Henry’s Scar. His music has appeared in several movies, including Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and Wim Wender’sMillion Dollar Hotel. He also composed an original soundtrack for the French film, Ma Femme Est Une Actrice.

I have to work now, but I will be pursuing this more later, stay tuned. Wink

Thanks, again. I'm going to check out some of Brad Mehldau best songs to see if I can't locate that piece.

Awesome. Thanks! Of course, if I find it before then I'll post it here.

I keep thinking it sounds like Oscar Peterson, lets check this song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgF7a8BFnTk

^ thats not the right song, I'm still looking. Geek

By the way, the changes to the song are similar to "Georgia" and another piano player that sounds like this is Nat King Cole.

I appreciate your taking the time to look. If I find it I'll post it here. It's a mystery why it's not on the soundtrack as it certainly is a good piece of music. Maybe Stanley Kubrick paid a composer to whip up a piece of a song just for that scene and it doesn't really exist.

Here is Oscar Peterson playing "Georgia on my Mind", its very similar to your sample.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tY_RE7tWzM

Edited by js - 17 Nov 2013 at 8:52pm

Yeah, I thought the chord changes sounded similar, but one had a guitar and the other didn't, should have thought to look for other versions of the same song. I guess that was Kubrick's little joke to use two versions of the same song.

Thus ends my internet searching, I saw a movie site where you had posted.

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	It's a jazz piece from the movie Eyes Wide Shut. The song is not in the soundtrack, nor listed in the credits, nor posted on the imdb website. I posted on several movie forums but nobody knows what the song is. I hope someone on a jazz forum might recognize it. Thanks. I uploaded a short video clip from the movie which plays the song in the background. View the Video

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35190	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 2:22pm
	Nice music, I don't recognize right away, but let me see what I can find out.

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35190	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 2:49pm
	Although it sounds like an older player, looks like it may be Brad Mehldau: In addition to his trio and solo projects, Mehldau has worked with a number of great jazz musicians, including a rewarding gig with saxophonist Joshua Redman’s band for two years, recordings and concerts with Pat Metheny, Charlie Haden and Lee Konitz, and recording as a sideman with the likes of the late Michael Brecker, Wayne Shorter, John Scofield, and Charles Lloyd. For more than a decade, he has collaborated with several musicians and peers whom he respects greatly, including the guitarists Peter Bernstein and Kurt Rosenwinkel and tenor saxophonist Mark Turner. Mehldau also has played on a number of recordings outside of the jazz idiom, like Willie Nelson’s Teatro and singer-songwriter Joe Henry’s Scar. His music has appeared in several movies, including Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut and Wim Wender’sMillion Dollar Hotel. He also composed an original soundtrack for the French film, Ma Femme Est Une Actrice. I have to work now, but I will be pursuing this more later, stay tuned.

JR_Ewing Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 17 Nov 2013 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote JR_Ewing Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 2:50pm
	Thank you. I really appreciate that.

JR_Ewing Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 17 Nov 2013 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote JR_Ewing Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 3:01pm
	Thanks, again. I'm going to check out some of Brad Mehldau best songs to see if I can't locate that piece.

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35190	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 3:06pm
	In a couple hours when I am off work, I'll try to pinpoint the actual song.

JR_Ewing Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 17 Nov 2013 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote JR_Ewing Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 3:13pm
	Awesome. Thanks! Of course, if I find it before then I'll post it here.

JR_Ewing Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 17 Nov 2013 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote JR_Ewing Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 3:47pm
	I should note that unless the song on the soundtrack is severely truncated, it is not Brad Mehldau's Blame it on My Youth which does appear on the soundtrack but is not the song heard in that scene. It's similar but it's not it and the tempo is also different. Edited by JR_Ewing - 17 Nov 2013 at 3:49pm

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35190	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 6:01pm
	I keep thinking it sounds like Oscar Peterson, lets check this song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgF7a8BFnTk

JR_Ewing Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 17 Nov 2013 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote JR_Ewing Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 6:12pm
	It could be the Oscar Peterson Trio but it's not any of the songs on the soundtrack album. Strange thing. I just skimmed through most of the songs from the Brad Mehldau discography and I didn't hear it. I'm going to try Oscar Peterson next and after that, Roy Gerson.

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35190	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 6:17pm
	^ thats not the right song, I'm still looking.

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35190	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 6:19pm
	My other choice of piano player is Gene Harris, its a bluesy player with a light refined touch, which fits Peterson and Harris both.

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35190	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 6:38pm
	By the way, the changes to the song are similar to "Georgia" and another piano player that sounds like this is Nat King Cole.

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35190	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 7:12pm
	I can't find it, let me know if you do.

JR_Ewing Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 17 Nov 2013 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote JR_Ewing Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 8:16pm
	I appreciate your taking the time to look. If I find it I'll post it here. It's a mystery why it's not on the soundtrack as it certainly is a good piece of music. Maybe Stanley Kubrick paid a composer to whip up a piece of a song just for that scene and it doesn't really exist.

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35190	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 8:38pm
	It sounds like a classic recording from the 60s or 50s, its hard for people to fake that sound on that good of a level. I could be wrong, but I think its a well known jazz piano player who has a very refined soft touch and a tendency to use blues cliches. Oscar Peterson, Gene Harris and Nat King Cole all come to mind, but there are others. The chord changes sound somewhat like "Georgia on my Mind", but those changes are similar to other songs too.

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35190	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(1) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 8:51pm
	Here is Oscar Peterson playing "Georgia on my Mind", its very similar to your sample. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tY_RE7tWzM Edited by js - 17 Nov 2013 at 8:52pm

JR_Ewing Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 17 Nov 2013 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote JR_Ewing Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 10:16pm
	I found it!! Odd thing. The title matches a title on the soundtrack but it's not the same song. The song is called I Got It Bad and That Ain't Good by the Oscar Peterson Trio. The song on the soundtrack with the same title matches a song that is played during a scene when the main character is in the Sonata Cafe talking with his friend Nick. This is the song from the Album Night Train by the Oscar Peterson Trio and is the music played during the kissing scene: Choose "Download This File" and click open when prompted. http://www.wikiupload.com/VWRFR8KE6Y12UKA Compare with this from the link you posted earlier and it is not the same: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgF7a8BFnTk This is just another mystery as to how this could happen, but I'm glad I found the song. The link to the Night Train album is actually on the same page as the Youtube link you posted, so you did help me after all. Thanks! Edited by JR_Ewing - 17 Nov 2013 at 10:21pm

js Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Visit Members Homepage Add to Buddy List Forum Admin Group Site admin Joined: 22 Dec 2010 Location: Memphis Status: Offline Points: 35190	Post Options Post Reply Quote js Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 17 Nov 2013 at 10:40pm
	Yeah, I thought the chord changes sounded similar, but one had a guitar and the other didn't, should have thought to look for other versions of the same song. I guess that was Kubrick's little joke to use two versions of the same song. Thus ends my internet searching, I saw a movie site where you had posted.

JR_Ewing Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Forum Newbie Joined: 17 Nov 2013 Status: Offline Points: 10	Post Options Post Reply Quote JR_Ewing Report Post Thanks(0) Quote Reply Posted: 19 Nov 2013 at 12:50pm
	Thank you, again, for your help. I really appreciate it very much. It takes movies to help me to appreciate the jazz music genre. I grew up with the Beach Boys, the Beatles, and Elvis. *Eyes Wide Shut* opened the door to jazz music. Thank you.