[jazz_guitar] PDF: Jim Hall's comping on "Days of Wine and Roses"

[timpaypal2003]

Hello all,

I just posted a PDF of Jim Hall's comping on "Days of Wine and Roses" from Art Farmer's album "Interaction". I also transcribed Art Farmer's solo and have the two parts are listed side by side in score form.

The transcription is a great study of understated comping: Jim uses a lot of 3rd and 7ths (guide tone) voicings and octaves for comping. Also, I found the transcription revealing as to what changes they are playing for the tune - they differ in a few areas from what was in the old Real Book for the end of the first half. The changes on the recording seem much more natural to me.

You can find the PDF on my site under "Transcriptions."

Tim Fischer
http://www.timfischermusic.com/

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[sonomatips]

Thanks Tim, nice work!

"The transcription is a great study of understated comping: Jim uses a lot of 3rd and 7ths (guide tone) voicings and octaves for comping."

Yes, I just looked at it, looks like his usual approach to comping: very melodic, attempting to complement what the soloist is playing.

[John Amato]

Tim ... excellent!
 

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Subject: [jazz_guitar] PDF: Jim Hall's comping on "Days of Wine and Roses"

 

Hello all,

I just posted a PDF of Jim Hall's comping on "Days of Wine and Roses" from Art Farmer's album "Interaction". I also transcribed Art Farmer's solo and have the two parts are listed side by side in score form.

The transcription is a great study of understated comping: Jim uses a lot of 3rd and 7ths (guide tone) voicings and octaves for comping. Also, I found the transcription revealing as to what changes they are playing for the tune - they differ in a few areas from what was in the old Real Book for the end of the first half. The changes on the recording seem much more natural to me.

You can find the PDF on my site under "Transcriptions."

Tim Fischer
http://www.timfischermusic.com/

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[rguitarjj]

WOW!

Thanks for posting.

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[igorogogo]

Tim, excellent job, thank you very much..

igOr OGOGO

[JamesM]

"Tim, excellent job, thank you very much.."
igOr OGOGO

Tim, I second that emotion and those eyes. I don't have this recording, but I can hear it in my imagination and have read through your transcription. It strikes me that one of the many great gifts that Jim Hall has given us is that little chord in 4ths. How beautiful, how ambiguous it is. Add a bass note for a thicker texture or play a melody or counter melody on top of it - or both. Change any note or two for cool voice leading. Thank you for sharing your wonderful enthusiasm and effort. And, man, your Sick Leo transcription, as well as others, looks like a sick amount of dedication and work. I will be studying this for a while. Thank you. And by the way, you play with real style and taste.
Jim

[rguitarjj]

The thing that I love about Jim Hall's comping, which is brought out so well in this tune, is that it is, for want of a better description, a second part in the arragement. That is, it is melodic, it traces the harmony delicately, there is tremendous but subtle movement, it leaves space and it completely avoids the usual guitar style based on pounding away on big chords. He approaches the tune like a pianist -- one who constructs a part rather than just hammering away on chords.

[timpaypal2003]

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> The thing that I love about Jim Hall's comping, which is brought out so well in this tune, is that it is, for want of a better description, a second part in the arragement. That is, it is melodic, it traces the harmony delicately, there is tremendous but subtle movement, it leaves space and it completely avoids the usual guitar style based on pounding away on big chords. He approaches the tune like a pianist -- one who constructs a part rather than just hammering away on chords.
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Thanks for the kind words. I am glad that people are finding the transcription useful.