Oct 18, 2014 blue bossa is one of those tunes every jazz lover is going to play, so its good to have a few ideas and concepts under your belt to get through the tune convincingly. The craze for the real book started in the 70s when jazz players around berklee college of music created a fake book of common jazz tunes called the real book. Real book antonio ongarello italian jazz standards. The real book bb edition by various fakebook spiral bound. Blue bossa is a popular jazz standard and a great tune to learn for beginners. Jun 03, 2016 in this tutorial, you will learn how to play the jazz standard, blue bossa. Blue bossa sheet music download free in pdf or midi. The melody in the real book is pretty complicated looking campared to anything else ive read up til now. One other person in my class said it makes sense if you follow the music rather than the storyline. Blue bossa is an instrumental jazz composition by kenny dorham. Bossa blue takes you back to the whisky soaked juke joints and jazz clubs where the blues first found the subtle pulse of bossa nova jazz. The melody in the real book is pretty complicated looking campared to.
What is also outstanding is the cheskys recording quality on this one. Bossa nova is, like rock and blues, a music that was invented on guitar. Jan 04, 20 and heres a video i did performing a blue bossa jazz guitar solo by robert conti. Given a piece of music, it is interesting to count how many times each of the individual twelve musical notes is played, and understand their relative weight, or importance, in the piece. Download in pdf format from berklee real book download in pdf format from the real book volume 1 download in pdf format from the real book volume 1 bass download in pdf format from the real book volume 1 bb download in pdf format from the real book volume 1 eb download in mp3 format select. It has also become an essential part of jazz and pop repertoire in terms of must know grooves. Joe henderson lima, ohio, april 24, 1937 san francisco, california, june 30, 2001 was an american jazz tenor saxophonist. Blue bossa kenny dorham blue in green miles davis blue monk thelonious monk. If you fancy more authentic brazilian jazz, bossa nova, or otherwise, then check out blue notes excellent blue brazil series, which features brazilian musicians exclusively. It was written by kenny dorham and performed on joe hendersons album page one, shown above in the video. In a career spanning more than forty years henderson played with many of the leading american players of his day and recorded for several prominent labels, including blue note. All blues au privave autumn leaves black orpheus bluesette body and soul bright size life con alma dolphin.
It is also one of the first latin tunes that many jazz musicians encounter. Songs such as the girl from ipanema the fifth most frequently played song in the world, the waters of march and desafinado are known around the world. The real books are the bestselling jazz books of all time. As a clue, the bb will generally want to resolve to the 5th note of the nextminor chord. It is an alternative to the plethora of poorly designed, illegible, inaccurate, badly edited volumes which abound on. Blue bossa by kenny dorham score and parts sheet music for. In this lesson i am going to show you a one bar bossa nova pattern and some jazz chords so that. C m9 fm9 dm7 511 g 7 9, rootless voicings for the left hand e m9 a 7 9,d. This solo is part of an educational series of six written specifically around the chords of jazz standards among the most played. This is a very simplified version of the song for beginners.
So, using the 4 available notes of c sharp diminished c sharp, e, g, bb, play 8 quavers. The only legal, corrected and updated version of the original real book. In this lesson i am going to show you a one bar bossa nova pattern and some jazz chords so that you use this groove to play through the song blue bossa. Print and download in pdf or midi blue bossa latin v made by elsonero. In this lesson ill present a set of arpeggios, some exercises, target notes and strategies for making solos where you can hear the harmony in the improvisation. Blue bossa has two keys making it one of the easier standards to play. It is one of the first tunes that many jazz musicians learn. Try one of the apps below to open or edit this item.
You have to raise the bb to a b to get the major third for the g7. But wherever that 8th note falls, hold it, sit on it, feelhear where it wants to go. Blue bossa by kenny dorham score and parts sheet music. The real book 3 bb buy now in stretta sheet music shop. I have some anas earlier chesky recordings but this one is really different. To prepare you for the next time this jazz standard is called at a jam session, lets explore a singlenote solo and a comping etude. Blue bossa is one of those tunes every jazz lover is going to play, so its good to have a few ideas and concepts under your belt to get through the tune convincingly. Blue bossa sheet music for clarinet, piano, tenor saxophone. Blue bossa is a tune that, like autumn leaves, is comprised mainly of ii v i progressions in either a minor or a major key.
Included are pdf lead sheets for c, bb, and eb instruments. Only has the lead sheet exactly as kenny originally wrote it. Blue bossa, however, while it is by no means mccoys best work, makes the grade. If you have difficulty with chords, i have written a book called piano chords.
Our backing tracks of blue bossa are made entirely with live musicians for that real feel. Skip ahead 30 something years, and there are now legal versions based on the original real book. Anas retro jazz music really enjoyable to listen to, great voice, guitar, bass and sax. May 25, 2010 blue bossa is a popular standard by the great jazz trumpet player kenny dorham. I think the blues scale sound over this chord is understood as our ears have been acclimatised to it for a long time, in my opinion its more about the way the blues scale is. Blue bossa is a popular crossover track for musicians coming into jazz. I picked up autumn moods after noticing the presence of the same personnel, and was disappointed by some of the most boring muzak imagineable. Bluemound rd, milwaukee, wisconsin, 532, united states, permission to. Blue bossa cool cuts from the tropics 1991, cd discogs. In this case, the two keys are not relative major and minor keys. The real book volume i sixth edition bb edition hal leonard. And heres a video i did performing a blue bossa jazz guitar solo by robert conti. Green nova is an original easy jazz solo, written on the chords of famous jazz standards blues bossa. Apr 01, 1990 bossa nova is one of the most popular musical genres in the world.
But the same approach can be employed as is used in autumn leaves. Bossa nova share book recommendations with your friends. It sounds a lot like d2d vinyl, more closeup, wider sound stage, meatier midrange and juicy highs and rolloffs, punchy dynamics. I will play everything at the start, then we will break the song into parts. Since the 1970s, musicians have trusted these volumes to get them through every gig, night after night. Blue bossa bb d7 on the joe henderson blue note recording page one 1963 g7 kenny dorham 5. If you made the v7 chord diatonically, it would be spelled g, bb, d, and f, which of course is a g7. Blue bossa backing tracks jazz play along jazzbacks. Sheet music for bb instruments tenor sax, clarinet. Table of contents 1 all of me 2 all the things you are 3 alone together 4 autumn leaves e minor 5 autumn leaves g minor 6 beautiful love 7 blue bossa 8 blues bb 9 blues f 10 body and soul 11 c minor blues 12 cherokee. Download in pdf format from berklee real book download in pdf format from the real book volume 1 download in pdf format from the real book volume 1 bass download in pdf format from the real book volume 1 bb download in pdf format from the real book volume 1 eb download in mp3 format select your version, copy the video url below. Blue bossa is a great way to start improvising following the harmony because its a well known tune that is not too difficult. After what seemed like forever and day working on attya my teacher is having me start on blue bossa.
The tune has since been recorded numerous times by different artists, making it a jazz standard. It was introduced on joe hendersons 1963 album page one. Bossa nova guitar patterns 1 blue bossa jens larsen. Blue bossa is a popular standard by the great jazz trumpet player kenny dorham. F eb d c bb ab g f eb eb db c bb ab gb gb f bb f ab.
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