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I enjoy the monthly "Practical Standards" group as a way to work through the "Great American Songbook" tunes. I have also wondered if we should have a group working through the "jazz originals" that are mainstays of many jam sessions. Tunes like "All Blues," "Four," "Graveyard," (oops, GROOVEYARD) "Joy Spring," etc. I don't even know how the list would be compiled, but as a monthly exercise that could be a fun complement to the "Practical Standards" group.
What do you all think?Last edited by lawson-stone; 01-09-2021 at 08:32 PM.
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01-09-2021 01:26 PM
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I think it’s a great idea, I find some of the old ‘songbook’ standards can be a little uninteresting at times. There are loads of great jazz original tunes out there.
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I also agree that a focus on what I call jazz-jazz-standards (songs written by jazz musicians and for their own recording, instead of a musical, play, or the movies), by a working-group, is a great idea.
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I thought if it was in the real book it was a standard.
Everybody ready for this can of worms...
What makes a song a standard?
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I'd be all about this.
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Sounds like a great idea.
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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As a latecomer to this thing, I didn't realize such tunes weren't included, or that tune selection was being done chronologically. I'd rather see that re-thought and just open the selection up to anything that is a standard in the sense of being part of more-ore-less standard jazz repertoire than proliferate the categories.
John
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Actually I don’t think the practical standards are entirely in chronological order, I seem to recall it’s based on the order of the tunes at the jazzstandards website (but excluding any tunes which have already been done in previous incarnations of the ‘practical standards’ thread - there’s a ‘sticky’ thread at the top which lists these).
I believe the jazzstandards website says it lists them in order of the number of recordings. So this does tend to prioritise the older ‘songbook’ standards, over the ‘jazz original’ tunes, which generally occur much later in the list.
At least I think that’s how it works!Last edited by grahambop; 01-09-2021 at 06:40 PM.
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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Originally Posted by grahambop
Thanks for clearing that up.
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Originally Posted by grahambop
I often find the most soulful playing on an album by many of my favorite jazz musicians is on this tune. E.g. Milt and Pass.
I guess it is all in the groove.
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There was a time when Wizard would ask for song suggestions for the Practical Standards thread. Nothing is written in stone.
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Originally Posted by AllanAllen
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
Are you proposing something like this?
andyb
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Originally Posted by fep
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
Link to said list?
I could only find alphabetical lists
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The monthly "Practical Standards" group genaraly show how to play a head of the standards.I think more important in jazz is improvisation over chord progrsions.
It takes a lot of time be a good improviser and a good jazz player.
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Originally Posted by Lobomov
Jazz Standards Songs and Instrumentals Contents
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Originally Posted by lawson-stone
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Originally Posted by kris
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Originally Posted by grahambop
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Originally Posted by grahambop
Oh .. I got Rhythm next month?
That's a big one
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Never heard of it!
KA PAF info please
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