A good blues for chord-melody?

**Guitarzen** · 10-02-2016, 04:29 PM

Originally Posted by mr. beaumont

And the venerable (as in gag me) "Summertime."

I always cringe when I see / hear yet another version of Summertime, and then Kreisberg nailed it in his solo arrangement. I now like Summertime again ;o) JK's version is on my list of need to transcribe eventually. For those who might not have heard it, here's a nice live version:

**Guitarzen** · 10-02-2016, 04:40 PM

Try also West Coast Blues. I just did a quickie 5 min arrangement of it and it seems to work really well, with the melody in either the lower or higher octave both working well.

**fasstrack** · 10-03-2016, 01:03 AM

Originally Posted by robguitar

Not me, but Emily Remler's B Flat Blues (based on Wes Montgomery's D Natural blues)

That's not Emily! Who is it?
Pretty swingin', whoever it is...

**grahambop** · 10-03-2016, 03:22 AM

Originally Posted by fasstrack

That's not Emily! Who is it?
Pretty swingin', whoever it is...

Christophe Pons, or so it says on YouTube.

**robguitar** · 10-03-2016, 04:01 PM

Unfortunately the original Emily video I was thinking of is no longer available, which explains why I couldn't find it. Probably available through All things Emily on DVD, for a marginal price though.....too bad, there were some good lessons on you tube.