Little Swingers ... a List of ... well... Little Swinging Tunes!

[jamiehenderson1993]

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[AllanAllen]

Perdido is a ii V I with a RC bridge.

I see Broadway in the list, Cute is another good Basie tune.

Honeysuckle Rose too.

[GuyBoden]

Easier songs are much more fun, because you can improv easy or complex phrases.

Also, I'd suggest: "In a Mellow Tone" and "I got Rhythm" (the slow easy original version).

[AllanAllen]

Mellow Tone is also a contrafact to Rose Room. Might as well learn that melody and Charlie Christian solo.

[mr. beaumont]

John Pizzarelli loves these tunes-- check out pretty much anything he does, you'll find some more "Little Swingers."

I love that term by the way.

And while it's fun to add more to the list, if you took the dozen or so you already had and spent a year really learning them, you'd be almost guaranteed to make great progress as a jazz player. Everything is in the tunes.

[AllanAllen]

But if he gets up to 20-25 tunes, he can start gigging with a little group. Then the progress can really take off.

[mr. beaumont]

True. 6 months then, and then another 12-13 the next 6 months.

One year from getting started to out playing would be a pretty good turnaround I'd say.

[jamiehenderson1993]

Thanks guys! That actually sounds like a great plan!

[Bob_Ross]

any other tunes you'd put in this camp?

Fly Me To The Moon
Beyond The Sea
Come Fly With Me
So In Love (usually played as a tango, but it makes a wonderfully sublime relaxed medium swing number)
You Make Me Feel So Young

[AllanAllen]

It’s Only a Paper Moon

[Robermax]

Comes Love

[joe2758]

mack the knife?