Something interesting about the chorus of 'It Could Happen To You' (sheet music)

[kris]

This version of "Footprints" seems to be very popular among young jazz adepts...

[Christian Miller]

This version of "Footprints" seems to be very popular among young jazz adepts...

I’ll take your word for it… all the ones around my way seem to be Bud Powell obsessives.


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[grahambop]

Where did Miles and Parker and Ahamad Jamal and Thelonious Monk learn these old tunes?

Don’t know about Monk etc., but I was just reading the Sonny Rollins biography and it says that when the young Sonny and Jackie McLean wanted to know the changes for a tune, they would go round to Monk’s house and ask him!

Can just imagine Monk hearing a knock on the door and thinking “Damn it’s those pesky kids again, what do they want this time, changes for ‘It Could Happen to You’?”

[kris]

Don’t know about Monk etc., but I was just reading the Sonny Rollins biography and it says that when the young Sonny and Jackie McLean wanted to know the changes for a tune, they would go round to Monk’s house and ask him!

Can just imagine Monk hearing a knock on the door and thinking “Damn it’s those pesky kids again, what do they want this time, changes for ‘It Could Happen to You’?”

He could have sent them back to the jazz museum.... he was very nice.

[kris]

[kris]

Che Baker's chord changes-very nice.

[grahambop]

He could have sent them back to the jazz museum.... he was very nice.

yeah it seems Monk took the younger musicians under his wing and let them hang at his apartment for hours (even though it was tiny, and he had a family). Sonny Rollins in particular spent a lot of time there. Sometimes he would sit next to Monk for hours in silence, just sort of soaking up the vibe.

I love reading these sorts of details, it really brings the history and the players to life.

[kris]

yeah it seems Monk took the younger musicians under his wing and let them hang at his apartment for hours (even though it was tiny, and he had a family). Sonny Rollins in particular spent a lot of time there. Sometimes he would sit next to Monk for hours in silence, just sort of soaking up the vibe.

I love reading these sorts of details, it really brings the history and the players to life.

Thanks Graham

[AllanAllen]

Haha I called Time On My Hands and Rose Room at a big jam once. No one knew the tunes but me. I was quite shocked haha. I learnt that actually, no one knows everything. No one knows all the chords and all the lines. No one can hear everything perfectly once and recreate it. No one knows every style/subgenre intimately and can play it convincingly.

I used to think that Pasquale Grasso was the pinnacle of guitar playing (in some sense he is, I mean, come on...) but he doesn't have much of the prewar blues or swing idiom down much and when he does it, I'm not super convinced.

Dani Rabin, another fusion shredder who is so ridiculously competent in multiple genres and music in general was criticised for having a bad la pompe technique/sound. I thought the guy had everything down, but to some, apparently not.

This is a not a knock on them because, really, who has time to specialise in everything? We love them for what they do very specifically. At the end of the day, we're all doing the best we can with what limited resources, time, bandwidth, inspiration etc we have.

Very important to remember this is the reality.

As opposed to guys here who swear they can do it all, but their recorder just broke, or the record label they just signed with banned them from posting clips… you know what I mean.