![]() ![]() Incidentally, the story is that Miles wrote down Gm A7+, handed it to Bill and asked “what would you do with that?” Bill allegedly said “dunno”, but went off and wrote Blue in Green. TROUPE: Bill Evans, who starts this tune, this masterful tune, and ends it, and with Miles and Coltrane and the bass up under it, played this circular movement inside of the song. It was Trane that really went on into modality and not-quite blues. Perhaps the possibility for chaos in the “this scale for as long as you like” approach puts people off teaching and performing it.Īlso interesting that having broken fresh ground with this album, Miles pretty much immediately abandoned the territory. Interesting that no-one ever seems to do Flamenco Sketches. In the same spirit, Tommy Flanagan had to prove that he could actually play Giant Steps after not exactly nailing it first time round. I guess some situations must rankle with players and they feel like setting the record straight. About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. Strikes me as an odd choice of tune for his style though, and I’d have thought surely he (of anyone) would have got the “non-tune” concept of the tune. I suppose there might have been an element of “I can do it, honest” to Bill doing Freddie. But have been listening to it over and over again for more than 50 years, even heard Jimmy Cobb’s Kind of Blues remake band live in Paris, well after the demise of all the others., And of course have been playing all the tunes… except Flamenco Sketches… certainly the most complex and haunting track and the one that best demonstrates the depth of melodic and modular harmonic invention of all the soloists. I bought the album as a 14 year old in 1961 thinking it was a bluesy trumpet thing and for about a week found it weird, challenging everything I believed jazz and Miles to be (which wasn’t a lot). Interesting to note that when Bill Evans finally recorded it in trio (I guess to show that he could play every tune on Kind of Blue!) he played it straight - without Wynton’s bouncing riffs - and the damn thing sounds dull. Click HERE to get started with my video course along with my personal. As a piano teacher, I ‘ll share with you what I learned from my own piano teachers, including jazz legend Billy Taylor. ![]() It’s Wynton who provides the riffs that turns it into a tune. Blue In Green (from The Jazz Pianist’s Ultimate Guide To The Real Book) To access this content, you must purchase one of the available memberships. ![]() Don't worry, you'll get to play Monk soon enough, or at least your version of his tunes, but I'd hold off on that for now.Freddie was one of series of quasi blues that Miles liked to play with, like No Blues (sometimes called Pfrancing) which is nevertheless closer to a classic blues. One of the foundations where Bill got his stuff. "Anthropology," his covers of Monk tunes, "Parisian Thoroughfare," all the classics. ( EEETA that's off Bill's album "New Conceptions in Jazz," as is the original, abbreviated form of "Waltz For Debbie," but "WFD" is a jazz standard recorded by.well, pretty much everybody knows that tune.)ĮETA Well, to go back to back to your larger point, I'd back to Bud Powell. "Five"'s a good one - at least to me that's one of the more challenging rhythm-changes tunes. The heads to all his tunes are easy enough, it's just IMHO being able to find something interesting to play over them that isn't just copying Bill. I don't have the CDs in front of me now, to remember what tunes he did on which album, but while something like "Nardis" is not that difficult a tune, it gives you so much space to explore that, if you're at all like me, you'll just stay stuck playing the form and not really doing the tune in a free manner, taking liberties with voicings and soloing with a kind of.freedom. If I had to pick one and only one Bill album to concentrate on, though, I'd just stick with Explorations. I believe he does "Blue in Green" on that one, which might line up with your sense of chord voicings on the fretboard. I believe most of it's been transcribed, fairly accurately IIRC. Granted, it used to be back in the day that playing in triple meter was considered pretty da**, oh wait, this is a childrens' forum, so I'm supposed to have so pretty gosh darn heck a lot, ultra-avant-garde in jazz, but I don't think it's been that case since the 1950s.ĮTA, Yeah, there's no question Portrait in Jazz is fundamental. Many live recordings by Bill exist, as well as transcriptions. Blue in Green (Miles Davis/Bill Evans) Piano Transcription Mike del Ferro Piano Transcription of Blue in Green (Miles Davis / Bill Evans ), played by Du. I think "Waltz for Debby" is a fantastic tune, and surprisingly can hold some challenges for a simpler piece. ![]()
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