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Our standard for Mar 2017 will be Star Dust (1929), by Hoagy Carmichael & Mitchell Parish.
Some history:
Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals (Star Dust)
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02-28-2017 02:16 PM
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02-28-2017, 03:33 PM #2joaopaz Guest
This came up on my YT search. Very nice...
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Holy cow. What a great tune. Sometimes you have to do a little digging to find a few good versions of something on YouTube, but the number of truly FANTASTIC jazz versions of this tune on YouTube is beyond just about anything else I've encountered in looking at a tune.
I think I started here, but you can click the suggested versions after each and keep going for about a week:
Last edited by matt.guitarteacher; 02-28-2017 at 07:15 PM.
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Dam Feb song came and went, hardly got near the guit for last 3 weeks after starting strong. Maybe I have to break it down.
Week one objective transcribe that stunning Clarke Terry head
(or Wynton Marsalis' or Clifford Brown, oh no and I am sure Lee Morgan did a great version, might loose a week working out which one).
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I'll open the fire,caue I posted it on the forum a few weeks ago
STAR DUST NGC869 the Persea double cluster,taken from my backyard observatory in January 2017
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The verse is so beautiful, I think omitting it is a crime. ! Listen to this version by Illinois Jacquet !
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Jon Kreisberg is such a great player. He's done a few versions. This is one that is inspiring.
David
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yeah, I'm going to commit to learning the verse this month. It's a great one, and there's not a lot of great ones (night and day, anyone?)
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Here is a nice arrangement for guitar. I may be able to attempt this.
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03-01-2017, 10:53 PM #10joaopaz GuestOriginally Posted by matt.guitarteacher
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03-01-2017, 11:05 PM #11joaopaz GuestOriginally Posted by Hyppolyte Bergamotte
I mean it in the best way possible.
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03-01-2017, 11:20 PM #12joaopaz GuestOriginally Posted by TruthHertz
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Originally Posted by gtrplrfla
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Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
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Spent the night with Clifford Brown on this last night. what a wonderful experience, we are getting together again tonight.
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How about what is probably the definitive vocal of "Stardust" by Nat 'King' Cole in "G" ? With a lush string arrangement by one of the masters, Gordon Jenkins , who provided Nat and Frank with many such wonderful orchestrations.
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So good, simplicity is the most difficult thing to achieve I mean ululele jazz version
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Quite interesting... I see M-ster (well done) has titled the thread Star Dust (as opposed to Stardust). That was the original title with music by Hoagy and lyrics by Mitchell Parish in 1927 (as we're posting other peoples' versions here!):
It got a bit more shmaltzy later...
Personally I like this one by Lester. I always imagine Billie gazing at him playing, fixated, the tears starting... :-)
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I'll report back here in the year 3250 when I've finally learned the melody to this song.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
Still say it's the best tune ever.
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I am struggling with this song as well.
Didn't know the song, didn´t know what version to go from. I just took a Realbook version in C (starts on F) and tried to play the melody as correct as possible. Played it a bit dixie to make it as simple as possible to my ears. Just the melody, no impro.
Btw, I accompanied myself with the metronome on 46 plus guitar...oops, that was not easy at all, to play completely locked in. It took multiple versions to get an acceptable backing version and still you hear me rush a bit. So en passent, I got a great excercise myself. Metronome 46, or lower, guitar chords and record yourself!
Hans
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Originally Posted by christianm77
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Originally Posted by ragman1
One of the hardest tunes to play straight from the real book for sure. Speaking of which, it's almost scandalous how horrible the real book version of this tune is. I assumed it to be just the original old fashioned basic version , but then someone posted Hoagy Carmichael's original sheet on this in another thread recently. It's actually much hipper than the real book . I don't understand how you can actually make something that old LESS hip, but they accomplished it. :-)Last edited by matt.guitarteacher; 03-06-2017 at 10:42 AM.
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Originally Posted by christianm77
I'm trying to memorize the lyrics and the "important notes" in the nelody...then I think I'll be able to do an interpretation.
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Well, I know all the lyrics, and it's still friggin' hard to play. Here's a run through this morning. Rough, but I say that about all of them. Been thinking a lot about "overreach" after P Kirk's thread. Still difficult.... .
KA PAF info please
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