Jazz context. Tunes we call standards— originally contemporary popular songs that everyone knew, that were a standard part of a working group’s book. These terms arose when there were regularly working bands and an active […]
Category: standards
Updating the book
Time to rework the book for my events band again. It’s been eight years, and I really don’t want to see most of those tunes ever again. I always felt too obligated to make this some […]
Ten tunes: heavy standards
Ten more tunes. These are some standards that have kind of a serious aura, that are reasonably-to-very likely to get called. They’re not necessarily very hard, but they demand to be approached with respect. It’s […]
Another list of standards
On George Colligan’s Jazz Truth blog there is a group email sent out by a student who sounds nearly as dickish as I was in college, with the heading: The George Colligan Standards List…LEARN THEM […]
Putting some things in
This is me at my most masochistic. I’m back in updating my events band’s book again- it’s a long, tedious process- and thought I would continue to share the gory “thought” process with you. Previously […]
Keeping the band happy.
More notes from revamping my book (my events band’s performing repertoire, that is). Here I thought I would share some of the tunes I use to keep the band from going nuts over the more […]
Updating my book
In preparation for a benefit gig this evening, I’m adding some new tunes my group’s book, and more importantly clearing some of the ample dead wood. In case you’re curious about the “thought” process that […]
Solo transcription: Jack Dejohnette – God Bless The Child
Another example of that ECM gospel feel with my original transcription of Jack Dejohnette’s famous solo on God Bless The Child, from Keith Jarrett’s Standards Volume 1: Keith Jarrett – Standards, Vol. 1 ECM B000VAKNLK […]