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Post by jazzalta on May 23, 2004 21:05:48 GMT -5
I used to play this a long time ago and have recently added it to my song list. The first version is from the Vanilla book.
CRY ME A RIVER
Key of Cm (Eb) 4/4
[ Cm Cm maj7 | Cm7 Cm6 | Fm7 Bb7 | Eb G7 |
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| Gm7b5 C7 | F7 | Fm7 Bb7 | Eb G7 ]
[ Cm Cm maj7 | Cm7 Cm6 | Fm7 Bb7 | Eb G7 |
| Gm7b5 C7 | F7 | Fm7 Bb7 | Eb D7 |
Gm | Am7b5 D7 | Gm |
| Am7b5 D7 | Gm | Am7b5 D7 | G |
| Dm7 G7 || Cm Cm maj7 | Cm7 Cm6 | Fm7 Bb7 |
| Eb G7 | Gm7b5 C7 | F7 | Fm7 Bb7 |
| Eb |
My version:
[ Cm Cm maj7 | Cm7 Cm6 | Fm7 Bb7 | Ebmaj7
Dm7 G7 | C7 C7b9 | F9 | Fm7 Bb7 Ab/Bb |
Eb6/9 Gaug7 ]
Cm Cm maj7 | Cm7 Cm6 | Fm7 Bb7 | Ebmaj7
Dm7 G7 | C7 C7b9 | F9 | Fm7 Bb7 Ab/Bb
| Eb D7#9 | Gm Em7b5 |Eb7#11 D7b9 |
Gm Em7b5 |Ab7#9 D7b9 | Gm Em7b5
|Eb7#11 D7b9 | Gmaj7 | Dm7 G7 || Cm Cm maj7
| Cm7 Cm6 | Fm7 Bb7 | Eb G7 | C C7b9 |
F9 | Fm9 Bb7 | Eb 6/9 |
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mahayana
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Post by mahayana on May 24, 2004 5:44:21 GMT -5
Another great R&B ballad. Did you first hear this song by Sam Cooke or Ray Charles or Joe Cocker? I guess Justin Timberlake's song is what what the young people know. Diana Krall, Natalie Cole, many others have covers.
You'll laugh, but the Amy Grant song "Cry A River" (take the bitter...with the sweet...cry a river over me) is one I'm working on.
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Post by anders on May 24, 2004 6:12:13 GMT -5
I'm currently working on a chord melody arrangement of "Cherokee" and learning the melody to the Charlie Parker tune "Au Privave".
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Post by jazzalta on May 24, 2004 11:14:26 GMT -5
Anders, keep up us to date on that Cherokee arrangement. I'd love to see what you've done with it. Maybe we can collectively see how to get it posted. Good luck.
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Post by kawe on Jun 24, 2004 8:20:14 GMT -5
i'm just learning charlie christian's "solo flight". it's a great solo and it's fun to play (even though i slowed it down a little)  . greets kawe |
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Post by jazzalta on Jun 24, 2004 14:43:40 GMT -5
That's a great tune Kawe. Charlie Christian is the gateway to jazz as far as I'm concerned. I learned a ton of licks from his recordings with Benny Goodman. Solo Flight is a great place to start.
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Post by kawe on Jun 25, 2004 3:50:18 GMT -5
yes. that's right!
what solos/tunes did you learn recently?
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Post by jazzalta on Jun 25, 2004 21:38:18 GMT -5
I'm kind of a 'standards' freak, so I'm trying to come up with a number of variations for Miles Davis' "Blue in Green." Most folks know but it has taken me awhile to get around to it. Also working on "A Foolish Heart" and "Nightengale Sang in Barkley Square."
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Post by jazzalta on Jun 25, 2004 21:38:57 GMT -5
sorry, double post
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Post by Professor1 on Jun 30, 2004 20:41:15 GMT -5
I've been working on "Watermelon in Easter Hay".
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Post by mahayana on Jul 18, 2004 17:32:27 GMT -5
Tell me about this song, Prof, if you don't mind. I'm not familiar with it. Is it something you're doing with the band?
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Post by Professor1 on Jul 18, 2004 17:57:38 GMT -5
It's actually one of Frank Zappa's more widely known "epic guitar solos". It's the next to the last track on the Joe's Garage double album. While I'd like to be able to do it in a performance, the guys I play with now are not quite up to it. It is a long solo over an ostinato arpeggio made up of one 4/4 measure, and one 5/4 measure...generally in the key of E.
Another, if not the best, of Frank Zappa's "epic" solos is on the studio version of "What's New in Baltimore" from the album, Frank Zappa Meets the Mothers of Prevention. (About when he testified to Congress against cencorship.)
The solo that most people consider his best is in "Inca Roads" from the album One Size Fits All. It's not. It's just that that album achieved commercial sales success and is well known.
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Post by mahayana on Jul 18, 2004 18:33:44 GMT -5
Sounds interesting. Have you been a Zappa fan for a long time?
How would you categorize this music? Is it jazz, experimental? He started out doing satirical rock and roll, had an underground following, like the Fugs. Did the Mothers ever have a top 40 song?
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Post by Professor1 on Jul 18, 2004 21:00:38 GMT -5
Uhh....Answering your question could take up a whole book...and that's been done before. I've been a Zappa fan since about 1975. His music covers every genre except opera. He didn't actually start in rock, but he did it to pay the bills. He started with a small. local following, but so did everyone else.
His music covers rock, blues, doo-wop, jazz, chamber music, and orchestra. There are also alot of fusions of alot of things, too. I guess you might call it 'experimental'. Yes, he's had a few top 40 tunes; See the album Strictly Commercial. He also won two grammys and is in the rock and roll hall of fame. He performed on Saturday night Live a few times and even hosted, I believe.
His music is definitely not easy listening, and alot of it takes an active listener. His Doo-Wop album, Cruisin' with Rueben and the Jets, sounds like a really conventional, and well-done, doo-wop album. Only when you pay attention to the lyrics do you realize that something is "wrong". Zappa was very funny and also quite brilliant. He is responsible for many of the multitrack recording techniques and equipment in use today as standard repertoire studio stuff. I recommend The Real Frank Zappa Book as a starting point. His discography covers over 5 dozen albums, so maybe a music listening library would be helpful.
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Post by jazzalta on Jul 18, 2004 21:10:55 GMT -5
Frank Z's always been a little "out there" for me, but that's my lack of sophistication I guess. I like it simple and prefer to play a lot of the tried and true compositions of the past. I'm a "standards" freak, probably born too late.
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