Guitarists playing "Rhythm Changes" tunes
CHRISTOPHER BUZZELLI
based on "Rhythm Changes" tunes. Can anyone recommend any recording?
Any era will do but it must be a guitar solo and it must be "Rhythm
Changes" for this project.
Chris Buzzelli
Associate Professor of Guitar
Bowling Green State University
Tim Hurley
: I have a graduate student doing a transcription project of guitar solos
I own a Joe Pass CD, Summer Nights, where he is playing I Got Rhythm.
Another album of his, Chops, he is playing Oleo. On both of these he is
playing with someone, not alone. I hope this is what you ment by a
guitar solo. If not, check out any of his Virtuoso albums, there must be
a changes tune on those. If these don't work, e-mail me and I'll send
you more possibilities.
Tim Hurley
Thomas Ford Brown
In article <6OCT1994...@opie.bgsu.edu> cbu...@opie.bgsu.edu (CHRISTOPHER BUZZELLI) writes:
>I have a graduate student doing a transcription project of guitar solos
>based on "Rhythm Changes" tunes. Can anyone recommend any recording?
>Any era will do but it must be a guitar solo and it must be "Rhythm
>Changes" for this project.
Wes Montgomery playing Duke's "Cottontail" on the "So Much Guitar"
album. Turn the balance control all the way over so you just
hear guitar and drums. It's my favorite all-time guitar take
on rhythm changes.
Marc Sabatella
> I have a graduate student doing a transcription project of guitar solos
> based on "Rhythm Changes" tunes. Can anyone recommend any recording?
> Any era will do but it must be a guitar solo and it must be "Rhythm
> Changes" for this project.
Speculation: there is a rhythm changes tune called, uh, "Eat Your Grandmother"
or something like, that on Steve Swallow's latest, "Real Book", and doesn't
Scofield or someone like that play on it? The main advantage of this would be
that a transcription of the heads are included in the liner notes (an
incredibly wonderful idea, BTW).
--
Marc Sabatella
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Thomas Ford Brown
In article <steiny.781566162@steiny> ste...@steiny.com (Don Steiny) writes:
>
> Try "The Flintstones Theme" on Blues Going Up by George Barnes.
Has this been released on CD? I remember it from when it came
out, and it was pretty cool.
Don Steiny
>I have a graduate student doing a transcription project of guitar solos
>based on "Rhythm Changes" tunes. Can anyone recommend any recording?
>Any era will do but it must be a guitar solo and it must be "Rhythm
>Changes" for this project.
Try "The Flintstones Theme" on Blues Going Up by George Barnes.
-don
truth and soul
Peter Marzlin
>
> > I have a graduate student doing a transcription project of guitar
solos
> > based on "Rhythm Changes" tunes. Can anyone recommend any recording?
> > Any era will do but it must be a guitar solo and it must be "Rhythm
> > Changes" for this project.
>
Try the album "It could happen to you" by Lorne Lofsky. This is a solo
guitar album including a version of Giant Steps.
Peter
James Greeson
>I have a graduate student doing a transcription project of guitar solos
>based on "Rhythm Changes" tunes. Can anyone recommend any recording?
>Any era will do but it must be a guitar solo and it must be "Rhythm
>Changes" for this project.
>Chris Buzzelli
On Michael Brecker's album <Don't Try this at Home> they do a Mike Stern
composition calles "Suspone" that is essentially a Rhythm Changes tune.
It's one of the more recent ones I know.
- Jin Greeson
Guitar Prof at the U of Arkansas
jgre...@comp.uark.edu
Marc Sabatella
> Speculation: there is a rhythm changes tune called, uh, "Eat Your Grandmother"
> or something like, that on Steve Swallow's latest, "Real Book"
OK, I finally remembered the tune is actually called "*Bite* Your Grandmother".
Slightly different connotation, I guess. Played it at a jam session last week;
that's how I knew about it. Is there a guitarist on the album or not?
Rory Stuart
rhythm changes tunes, how about Wes Montgomery's solo
on Cottontail (reissued on double LP "While We're Young,"
which I assume has again been reissued on cd)? Note that
this is not in Bb, though I hope that is not a requirement...
And, to throw in some shameless self-promotion (:-), how
about Rory Stuart solo on Rhythm-a-ning from "Hurricane"
cd (Sunnyside 1021)? For another, less conventional approach
(a composition that alternates between free sections and
rhythm changes that cycle between Bb and G in calypso feel),
how about Rory Stuart solo on "Play" from Nightwork lp (Cadence
1016)? Both available in stores and from Cadence/North Country
(315)-287-2852. [Hope some of you other net readers will
check out these, as well as my recent duo cd w/ Glenn
Wilson... But for now, Shameless self-promotion off ... :-)]
Some wonderful rhythm changes playing by a guitarist was done
by George Benson on "I've Got the Blues" (based on Lester Leaps
In) -- *but*, the only recorded version doesn't even begin to capture
how he played this tune live when he used to play a lot more guitar
about 20 years ago. A very early Benson solo on rhythm changes
was from his "Willow Weep For Me" LP -- I forget the name of the
original tune, but it is the one that has a tag between solos
8th notes starting on the "and" of 3: G A B | D B C D E Gb Ab Bb |
Db Bb Cb Db Eb F G A|. Of course, there are plenty of other traditional
guitarist recordings of rhythm changes, such as those by Jimmy Raney,
though many of these don't do much for me personally...
The above will probably give your student a start. Then, if he/she
wants to hear some *really* great rhythm changes playing, he can check out
some non-guitarists, such as Sonny Stitt on the title piece of his
quartet record "I've Got Rhythm," Kenny Barron on his solo piano lp,
George Coleman on "Lo-Joe," etc...!
Rory Stuart
Jazz composer/guitarist
Glenn Lea
Marc Sabatella wrote:
> Speculation: there is a rhythm changes tune called, uh, "Eat Your Grandmother"
> or something like, that on Steve Swallow's latest, "Real Book"
OK, I finally remembered the tune is actually called "*Bite* Your Grandmother".
Slightly different connotation, I guess. Played it at a jam session last week;
that's how I knew about it. Is there a guitarist on the album or not?
Not unless you count Swallow's elecric bass.
--
Glenn Lea
Tom Weimer
>
> > I have a graduate student doing a transcription project of guitar
solos
> > based on "Rhythm Changes" tunes. Can anyone recommend any recording?
> > Any era will do but it must be a guitar solo and it must be "Rhythm
John Scofield approaches RC's in a really interesting way -- his sense of
rhythm and ability to imply neat harmony in RC's (like 1/2-step side slips)
is kind of refreshing to me. Check out "What They Did" (I think that's the
name - track 9 on this Quartet CD, anyway), "Grace Under Pressure" with Frissell
(again, I think this is the track, but it might be another; I never remember the
names of original instrumental tunes!), "Swing Spring", a standard on Joe Henderson's
"Miles" tribute CD (with Scofield).
Another nice RC-based tune is "Crazeology" on Akio Sasajima's "Time Remembered" CD.
By the way, does anyone know if (guitarist) Sasajima has any recordings available other
than the one above and "Humpty Dumpty" w Joe Henderson?
Can anyone suggest any artists (any instrument) that play RCs in a new way?
I'm thinking "Oleo" as recorded by Sonny Rollins, Miles Davis, etc. as the point of
departure -- that is, can someone suggest a player that goes beyond, or adds to,
a bebop approach? I've heard J. Redman, Lovano, Henderson, Bill Evans, Monk, Bird,
play them (Salt Peanuts, Rhythm'ning, Moose the Mooche, Anthropology, Oleo...), but
the with the exception of Scofield and perhaps Redman the approach was almost strictly
bebop.
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Tom Weimer
Advanced Computing Systems Company
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> CHRISTOPHER BUZZELLI wrote:
>
> > I have a graduate student doing a transcription project of guitar
solos
> > based on "Rhythm Changes" tunes. Can anyone recommend any recording?
> > Any era will do but it must be a guitar solo and it must be "Rhythm
> > Changes" for this project [ ..lines omitted ]
John Scofield approaches RC's in a really interesting way -- his sense of
rhythm and ability to imply neat harmony (like little 1/2-step side-slips)
is kind of refreshing to me. Check out "What They Did" (I think that's the
name - track 9 on this Quartet CD, anyway), "Grace Under Pressure" with Frissell
(again, I think this is the track, but it might be another; I never remember the
names of original instrumental tunes!), "Swing Spring", a standard on Joe Henderson's
"Miles" tribute CD (with Scofield).
Another nice version is "Crazeology" on Akio Sasajima's "Time Remembered" CD. Sasajima
has a great Metheny-esque tone, and writes really nice tunes.
By the way, does anyone know if Sasajima has any recordings available other than the
one above and "Humpty Dumpty" w Joe Henderson?
A grad student might want to compare RC's played with a more modern sensibility to
those of another era (say, Sonny Rollins or Miles Davis playing "Oleo").
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Tom Weimer
Advanced Computing Systems Company
3000 S. Robertson Blvd. Suite 400, LA, CA 90034 (310) 815-4858
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> CHRISTOPHER BUZZELLI wrote:
>
> > I have a graduate student doing a transcription project of guitar
solos
> > based on "Rhythm Changes" tunes. Can anyone recommend any recording?
> > Any era will do but it must be a guitar solo and it must be "Rhythm
> > Changes" for this project [ ..lines omitted ]
John Scofield approaches RC's in a really interesting way -- his sense of
rhythm and ability to imply neat harmony (like little 1/2-step side-slips)
is kind of refreshing to me. Check out "What They Did" (I think that's the
name - track 9 on this Quartet CD, anyway), "Grace Under Pressure" with Frissell
(again, I think this is the track, but it might be another; I never remember the
names of original instrumental tunes!), "Swing Spring", a standard on Joe Henderson's
"Miles" tribute CD (with Scofield).
Another nice version is "Crazeology" on Akio Sasajima's "Time Remembered" CD. Sasajima
has a great Metheny-esque tone, and writes really nice tunes.
By the way, does anyone know if Sasajima has any recordings available other than the
one above and "Humpty Dumpty" w Joe Henderson?
A grad student might want to compare RC's played with a more modern sensibility to
those of another era (say, Sonny Rollins or Miles Davis playing "Oleo").
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Tom Weimer
Advanced Computing Systems Company
3000 S. Robertson Blvd. Suite 400, LA, CA 90034 (310) 815-4858
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In article <37ct0h$k...@wizard.uark.edu>, jgreeson@comp..uark.edu (James Greeson) writes:
|> cbu...@opie.bgsu.edu (CHRISTOPHER BUZZELLI) writes:
|>
|> >I have a graduate student doing a transcription project of guitar solos
|> >based on "Rhythm Changes" tunes. Can anyone recommend any recording?
|> >Any era will do but it must be a guitar solo and it must be "Rhythm
|> >Changes" for this project.
|>
|> >Chris Buzzelli
|>
|> On Michael Brecker's album <Don't Try this at Home> they do a Mike Stern
|> composition calles "Suspone" that is essentially a Rhythm Changes tune.
|> It's one of the more recent ones I know.
|>
|> - Jin Greeson
|> Guitar Prof at the U of Arkansas
|> jgre...@comp.uark.edu
|>
John Scofield plays RC's a quartet CD or two back, called, I think, "What They Did".
Might be called "What We Do"! Track 9, anyway. RC's also w he and Bill Frissell
on "Grace Under Pressure." Great version of "Swing Spring", Joe Henderson's Miles
tribute CD; I forget the name of it -- just a release or two ago, with Scofield.
Nice RCs on Akio Sasajima's "Crazeology", a tune from his CD, "Time Remembered."
I'll second the aforementioned "Suspone" from M. Brecker's CD w Mike Stern, though
I prefer Scofield's incredible sense of rhythm, and ability to hear and imply
interesting harmony.
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Tom Weimer
Advanced Computing Systems Company
3000 S. Robertson Blvd. Suite 400, LA, CA 90034 (310) 815-4858
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Marc Sabatella
> For another, less conventional approach
> (a composition that alternates between free sections and
> rhythm changes that cycle between Bb and G in calypso feel),
> how about Rory Stuart solo on "Play" from Nightwork lp (Cadence
> 1016)?
Yes! This is great! Worth the price of the album right there. Well, that
plus the picture on the album cover ;-)