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Beautiful Love Song
One of the most popular minor key jazz standard songs in jam session. Written by Victor Young, Wayne King & Egbert Van Alstyne.
Composer Victor Young, Wayne King & Egbert Van Alstyne Lyricist Haven Gillespie Form A-B-A-C (A-B-A-B’) Style Swing
Art Pepper + Eleven Album recorded by Art Pepper in 1959
Art Pepper + Eleven Musicians Art Pepper,Charlie Kennedy Richie Kamuca Bob Enevoldsen Med Flory Al Porcino,Jack Sheldon Dick Nash Vince De Rosa Russ Freeman Joe Mondragon Mel Lewis Art Pepper,Bud Shank Bill Perkins Art Pepper,Herb Geller Jack Sheldon,Pete Candoli Charlie Kennedy Art Pepper Bud Shank Tracks Move Groovin' High Opus De Funk 'Round Midnight Four Brothers and more....
Minor Tonality Theory Basics about Minor Tonality; Natural Minor, Harmonic Minor and Melodic Minor. Especially about scales and chord category.
Diatonic Chord and Diatonic Scale
Diatonic Chord Function
Classification By Frequency Of Use
Parent Scale
In A Sentimental Mood Song
One of the most popular Duke Ellington's ballad tunes among jazz musicians.
Composer Duke Ellington Lyricist Irving Mills, Manny Kurtz Form A-A-B-A Style Ballad
Bye Bye Blackbird Song
One of the most popular tune among jazz musicians. Written by Ray Henderson.
Composer Ray Henderson Lyricist Mort Dixon Form A-B-C-A' Style Medium Swing
Red Garland Musician
Red garland is one of the legend bebop pianist, who popularized a block chord piano style. Also well known as a pianist of Miles Davis quartet.
Birth Name William McKinley Garland, Jr. Born May 13, 1923
Dallas, Texas Died April 23, 1984
Dallas, Texas
Ray Brown Musician
One of the jazz bass legend between bebop era and modern era. Also one of the pioneer of jazz cello. He is known as a sideman, a band leader and an educator. His style bases on very basics so his bass lines are used to study basic bass lines very widely.
Birth Name Raymond Matthews Brown Born October 13, 1926
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States Died July 2, 2002
Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
Diatonic Chord Theory Basics of Diatonic Chord: chord category, voice leading and functions.
Function
Tonic
Sub dominant
Dominant
Sub Function
Saturday Night At The Blue Note Album recorded by Oscar Peterson in 1990
Saturday Night At The Blue Note Musicians Herb Ellis Oscar Peterson Ray Brown Tracks Kelly's Blues Nighttime Love Ballade~If You Only Knew You Look Good To Me Old Folks and more.... Remarks
Ben Williams Quote
My motto has always been to “stay ready” so you never have to “get ready.”
How High The Moon Song
One of the most popular medium up swing tune among jazz musicians.
Composer Morgan Lewis Lyricist Nancy Hamilton Form A-B-A-C Style Medium Up Swing
Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise Song
One of the most popular minor key jazz standard songs. Written by Sigmund Romberg.
Composer Sigmund Romberg Lyricist Oscar Hammerstein II Form A - A - B - A Style Swing
Cherokee Song
One of the most popular jazz standard songs which are played very fast in jam session. Written by Ray Noble.
Composer Ray Noble Lyricist Ray Noble Form A-A-B-A Style Swing
Chord Inversion Theory
Technically, this is not jazz theory. This is classical music theory.
1st Inversion
2nd Inversion
Notation
Function
La Enciclopedia del Jazz, Vol. 1 Album recorded by Various Artist in 1949,1960,1947 & 1948
La Enciclopedia del Jazz, Vol. 1 Musicians Sonny Rollins J.J. Johnson John Lewis Gene Ramey Shadow Wilson Kenny Dorham Leonard Gaskin Max Roach Sonny Stitt Nelson Boyd Teddy Edwards Benny Bailey ,Emanuel Brooks Addison Farmer Roy Porter Emanuel Brooks Duke Brooks Ernie Henry James Moody Cecil Payne Dave Burns,Elmon Wright Hen Gates Teddy Stewart Art Blakey Chano Pozo Tracks Audobon Don't Blame Me Elysee (Elysses) Opus V Hilo and more....
The Ten Shades Of Blues Album recorded by Richard Bona in 2010
The Ten Shades Of Blues Musicians Richard Bona Nandini Srikar,Shankar Mahadevan Bob Reynolds Michael Rodriguez Marshall Gilkes Niladiri Kumar Satyajit Talwalkar Vivek Rajgopalan Frank Mc Comb Grégoire Maret Obed Calvaire Sylvain Luc Jean-Michel Pilc Christian Howes Bailo Baa Jojo Kuoh Ryan Cavanaugh Bert Van Den Brink Tracks Take One Shiva Mantra Good Times M'Bemba Mama Kurumalete and more.... Remarks
The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album Album recorded by Kenny Dorham in 1960
The Kenny Dorham Memorial Album Musicians Charles Davis Kenny Dorham Tommy Flanagan Butch Warren Buddy Enlow Tracks Stage West I'm An Old Cowhand (From The Rio Grande) Delilah (Theme From Samson And Delilah) Butch's Blues Stella By Starlight and more....
The Way I Really Play Album recorded by Oscar Peterson in 1967
The Way I Really Play Musicians Oscar Peterson Sam Jones Bobby Durham Tracks Waltzing Is Hip Satin Doll Our Love Is Here To Stay Sandy's Blues Alice In Wonderland and more....
Jazz At The Philharmonic: The Ella Fitzgerald Set Album recorded by Ella Fitzgerald in 1949,1953 & 1954
Jazz At The Philharmonic: The Ella Fitzgerald Set Musicians Norman Granz Ella Fitzgerald Hank Jones Ray Brown Buddy Rich Charlie Parker Flip Phillips Lester Young Roy Eldridge Tommy Turk Herb Ellis Raymond Tunia J.C. Heard Tracks Introduction Robbin's Nest (Just When We're Falling In Love) A New Shade Of Blues Old Mother Hubbard I'm Just A Lucky So And So and more....
Wynton Kelly Musician
Birth Name Wynton Charles Kelly Born December 2, 1931
Brooklyn, New York Died April 12, 1971
Toronto, Canada
Equinox Album recorded by Red Garland in 1978
Equinox Musicians Red Garland Richard Davis Roy Haynes Tracks It's All Right With Me Hobo Joe Equinox Cute Nature Boy and more....
The Big Beat Album recorded by Art Blakey & The Jazz Messengers in 1960
The Big Beat Musicians Wayne Shorter Lee Morgan Bobby Timmons Jymie Merritt Art Blakey Tracks The Chess Players Sakeena's Vision Politely Dat Dere Lester Left Town and more....
Playing Changes Album recorded by George Coleman in 1979
Playing Changes Musicians George Coleman Hilton Ruiz Ray Drummond Billy Higgins Tracks Laura Ceora Moment's Notice
Pat Metheny Quote
Always be the worst guy in every band you're in.
Confirmation Album recorded by Tommy Flanagan in 1977 & 1978
Confirmation Musicians Tommy Flanagan George Mraz Elvin Jones Tracks Maybe September (Theme From "The Oscar") Confirmation How High The Moon It Never Entered My Mind Cup Bearers and more.... Remarks
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It is highly recommended to ,at first, search, think and guess by yourself. Also welcome any correction and criticis.
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The Author Hiro-kazu, a bassist who mainly play jazz in NY.
He studied music theory, especially jazz theory, through private lessons in Japan and at the City College of New York.
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