Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
Barry recorded Smoke Gets in Your Eyes on First Time Ever, a trio album made in 1996. In class it turns up only briefly: a question about it in a 2020 Zoom class, and a short clip of singers on it in his Manhattan class.
- moments in class
- 2
- recordings
- 2
- Barry plays it
- 3
What he teaches through it
In a Zoom class in May 2020 Barry recalls that someone asked about Smoke Gets in Your Eyes and, at the piano, starts from a B♭ minor 7 chord, asks about the tritone and points out how much the left hand can do, diminished chords included. The captions are too broken to follow what he plays.
In class
Every moment he works on it, with the ideas of the method it shows.
The 23 May Zoom class, part 1
- 19:01
Zoom class, 2020: takes up a question about the tune at the piano; captions too garbled to follow.
“Smoke Gets In Your Eyes” Piano Class Barry Harris Manhattan
- 0:00
A short clip of the singers on the tune in his Manhattan class, a student at the piano.
Barry plays it
- Barry Harris Trio (1997) First Time Ever2026, 58 min YouTube
- Barry Harris Trio First Time Ever2021, 58 min YouTube
- Barry Harris Trio - Smoke Gets in Your Eyes2014, 8 min YouTube
In the method
The ideas of the method these moments show, and how many moments each.