What's your fav Ballad?

[GuyBoden]

What's your fav Ballad?

Ben Webster's breathy version of Tenderly.

[James W]

Embraceable You, Body And Soul, Blue In Green, Circle, Pee Wee, Naima, off the top of my head. Probably more if I think about it.

[pamosmusic]

Embraceable you, Body and Soul, I’ll Be Seeing You

[AllanAllen]

[GuyBoden]

Many thanks, I've never heard that live version before, I have the recordings, but Chet's phrasing whilst singing on that live version is truly outstanding.

[Greentone]

The favorite ballads suggested, so far, are outstanding.

I will, however, offer Dindi.

[ragman1]

Blue In Green, Naima, lots of them. Mostly modern rather than the show tunes.

[mr. beaumont]

My One and Only Love

[John A.]

Come on guys, we're guitar players fer cryin out loud. The correct answer is "Darn that Dream".

[garybaldy]

I Can't Get Started
Anouman

[Rolf Field]

[Rolf Field]

The entire album by Metheny and Hall is great. (oke just the ballads because of this topic) It was my steppingstone away from the blues. My playing is no where close to their playing though. But still dreaming.

[AllanAllen]

Come on guys, we're guitar players fer cryin out loud. The correct answer is "Darn that Dream".

why?

[jameslovestal]

[Perdido]

Here's That Rainy Day
It Never Entered My Mind
Spring Can Really Hang You Up the Most
Some Other Time

(Off the top of my head. I think those qualify.)

[Greentone]

Yeah, "My One and Only Love," Trane with Johnny Hartman is a profound ballad.

[John A.]

why?

Because it's just about the easiest tune to arrange for solo guitar (first one I ever came up with) and everybody does it.

[AllanAllen]

Because it's just about the easiest tune to arrange for solo guitar (first one I ever came up with) and everybody does it.

Well, I'll have to give it a shot then. I like things that are easy!

[jameslovestal]

why?

[Bop Head]

Probably that tune, but I am not a guitar only listener and like to go back to the source.

Then this one ...

... this one ...

... and this one.

[Skip Ellis]

I pretty much only play ballads - I just like pretty tunes. Favorites: Moonlight In Vermont, Georgia On My Mind, Days of Wine and Roses, I Can't Get Started, Stars Fell On Alabama, Laura, Shenandoah, Send In The Clowns. I listen to a lot of Ella, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Sinatra, Mel Torme and try to pattern my playing after their singing.

[Bop Head]

Come on guys, we're guitar players fer cryin out loud. The correct answer is "Darn that Dream".

I am first and foremost a music lover and musician not just a guitar player ... (but I really like that one)

[Bop Head]

I pretty much only play ballads - I just like pretty tunes. Favorites: Moonlight In Vermont, Georgia On My Mind, Days of Wine and Roses, I Can't Get Started, Stars Fell On Alabama, Laura, Shenandoah, Send In The Clowns. I listen to a lot of Ella, Rosemary Clooney, Tony Bennett, Sinatra, Mel Torme and try to pattern my playing after their singing.

+1 for Laura.

And nobody likes this one?

[alltunes]

My Romance has always been a fav

[sgosnell]

Naming ballads is fun, but deciding which one is my favorite would be like trying to decide which grandchild is my favorite. They're all favorites when I'm playing them.