Any jazz musicians here?

[Chris71]

Hmmm, hadn't noticed PH gaining a music forum - is this new?

Anyway.....

Does anyone here play jazz? I'm a reasonably competent amateur rock/blues guitarist and now my girlfriend who's a jazz saxophonist (amongst other things) has started talking about us doing some covers together. The thing is I can't sight read, so I really need some tunes I know (or can get hold of) along with some tablature. Can anyone recommend some 'jazz standards' that a non-jazzer would know and stand some chance of playing. So far, we have The Pink Panther and The Girl From Ipanema.

[Stig]

Jazz?

...nice

[Chris71]

Bmm Bmm

I have far more fun winding her up with band camp jokes personally

Edited by Chris71 on Thursday 9th August 15:42

[Evil Jack]

Off the top of my head - try 'My Favourite Things'


Have a listen to John Coltranes famous version - The rhythm and chords that pianist McCoy Tyner uses on that record are easy to hold down on the guitar and sound great.

Studying jazz will improve your playing no end - but you have to understand how chords are constructed in order to cope with it. Once you know the theory you will automatically know how to play a F7#9b13 without ever having played it before!
Jazz is good

HTH

[Chris71]

Evil Jack said:

Off the top of my head - try 'My Favourite Things'


Have a listen to John Coltranes famous version - The rhythm and chords that pianist McCoy Tyner uses on that record are easy to hold down on the guitar and sound great.

Studying jazz will improve your playing no end - but you have to understand how chords are constructed in order to cope with it. Once you know the theory you will automatically know how to play a F7#9b13 without ever having played it before!
Jazz is good

HTH

Will look into that cheers.

Got a free eBook on jazz chord construction from jazzguitar.be - despite the fact english isn't the authors first language, I actually understood that better than the other theory texts I've read!

What always puzzles me about jazz is how much is done by modifying a known chord shape, scale etc and how much is done by the players actually being clever enough to transpose or work out chord shapes in their head as they go along. A couple of scale shapes and plenty of distortion has me sorted for blues/rock stuff, the good jazz players must be geniuses

[joesnow]

Chris71 said:

Got a free eBook on jazz chord construction from jazzguitar.be - despite the fact english isn't the authors first language, I actually understood that better than the other theory texts I've read!

Just subscribed, thanks for the tip. I've got a big book of Django at home, but haven't found the time to play any yet. The chord book will help me get started, and add some groovy chords into my collection.

Cheers.

[robbo3112]

See if you can get hold of a copy of "Fakebooks" thousands of tunes on ther all annotated & Tabbed

[Chris71]

robbo3112 said:

See if you can get hold of a copy of "Fakebooks" thousands of tunes on ther all annotated & Tabbed

Surprised there aren't any available on the web 'for study'. My missus has a stack of them, but they're all in sax-friendly keys with proper music notation, which I can barely decipher, let alone sight read!