Technical advice for chord melodies?

[Banksia]

I had a long look through the Jerry Hahn site. It includes the curriculum for Jazz Studies at Wichita State Uni (or is it SUW?) The Seniors are required to be able to perform songs from a prescribed list. The newest song on the list (I'm not sure of my dates) is Days of Wine and Roses or maybe Girl from Ipanema. Clearly graduates of WSU (or SWU?) will be well-prepared to carry Jazz forward into the 1950s, and will silence all those critics who claim that Jazz is dead.
If that is the state of jazz education at any tertiary institution, then Ira Gershwin was right: "Let's call the whole thing off!"

[JohnW400]

You're right Banksia. There's not even Chick, Herbie, Steve Swallow or any of the other 'modern' composers from the Real Book from the late 70's. Looks like all they did was to take the more common tunes from that book and use them. If that's what they're teaching at the University these days, It's nice to know that I'm "up to date" n my studies

[Shel]

ANyone able to give the Beatles' 'A Day in the Life" the CM treatment?
bEGGING in advance in CaLifornia!