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- 22 Feb 2022, 14:48
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
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Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
As a side note, one of Lennie Tristano's students was the jazz teacher in my father's music school in Mt. Vernon NY. The name Mosca, just popped into my head. We had a set of 78s of Tristano, a trio I think, and I would listen to it in amazement because it sounded so strange. Mosca (or whoever) inv...
- 22 Feb 2022, 10:31
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
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Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
By learning jazz from a chord-scale approach and not a musical "language" based approach, we end up with a lot of very technically proficient players that can always play "correct" notes, but don't have much to say. Can’t find the exact source in the moment but there is a quote ...
- 22 Feb 2022, 10:21
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
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Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
When I first started improvising using lead sheets I was always bothered by the fact that the bass lines were not present, having done quite a bit of theory using figured bass. (You'll have to factor in that I am a "classical" musician and think of the bass line as just as important as th...
- 21 Feb 2022, 19:47
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
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Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
This looks to me like they cut off the piano part from xeroxed original sheet music and put a lead sheet together from only vocal, lyrics and chord names. It is from a fake book called "Million Dollar Library" that came in ten volumes a few hundred pages each! No wonder the FBI was chasing...
- 21 Feb 2022, 17:56
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
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Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
This is what they looked like.Fred G. Unn wrote: ↑21 Feb 2022, 15:46 One brand of legal ones were Tune-Dex cards. Plenty of illegal ones too of course.
Is the music written with a music typewriter?
https://blog.library.gsu.edu/wp-content ... uneDex.jpg
- 21 Feb 2022, 17:50
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
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Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Maybe someone out there knows about international fake books. Regarding European fake books: There are the French ones that as far as I know were compiled by French jazz musician Philippe Baudoin (who also wrote the two volumes of “Jazz – Mode d’Emploi”). They consist of two parts (two books? I hav...
- 21 Feb 2022, 17:16
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
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Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
I should have thought twice. Of course you as a pro know what rhythm slashes are. Sorry, no offense intended.John Ruggero wrote: ↑20 Feb 2022, 23:14 I know what rhythm slashes are and see them in the Monk part. My comment was in response to Fred comment about the D 11.
- 21 Feb 2022, 17:12
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
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Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
Typically a D11 would have a G appearing a minor ninth (or displaced by one or more octaves) above a F#, hence the 11th. Otherwise it would be C/D, Am7/D, D7sus, etc. It's not super common, but examples are found easily enough. The pyramid in Charlie Barnet's Skyliner is a fairly well-known example...
- 20 Feb 2022, 18:52
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
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Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
The very last from my manuscript collection and off-topic regarding chord symbols:
Some lyricists prefered typewriters over pens and pencils:
Some lyricists prefered typewriters over pens and pencils:
- 20 Feb 2022, 18:46
- Forum: Notation Rules and Standards
- Topic: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
- Replies: 52
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Re: Positioning Chord Symbols and Rehearsal Marks for Jazz
And finally Jaki Byard