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I guess I have heard Herb Ellis play is numerous times and never gave it a thought. I don't call it a standard as such it is not obscure but not played much. Well the Dutch Bopper post a video of himself playing this and I decided to look it up and learn the tune. It makes a great chord melody and I have added it to the play list. Lost of nice movement and generally not hard to learn. All these years and still finding tunes I should have played long ago more.
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08-01-2021 01:12 PM
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Originally Posted by deacon Mark
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A few versions of Herb playing the tune. We'll start with Ella singing it (to Herb's accompaniment), as that really fixes the melody in one's mind.
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Bill Evans kinda made it a standard. That's how I learned it long before I even knew who Herb Ellis was. He played it at the historic run at the Vanguard
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Interesting that Herb plays it in Db, while Bill Evans plays it in C and that's the version I
heard first like many other players.
The only lead sheet I've come across in in one of the Sher New Real Book series and it's in C too.
On a search of YouTube I found one clip of Herb playing Detour Ahead in C, I wonder how he first
conceived it.
As said earlier it makes a wonderful vehicle for chord/melody on guitar.
I've done an arrangement of it that I love playing ....it's in C
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I have it in C and it makes for better chord melody can use the open E and A strings for some pedal tones. Just a very melodic tune that lays well on the guitar. Not done enough for sure.
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08-07-2021, 12:42 PM #7joelf Guest
Originally Posted by deacon Mark
Also instrumentally: Bill Evans made it popular; Ralph Lalama plays it. I'm sure Art Farmer played it at some point.
So, yes, it's not obscure...
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