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04-29-2009, 10:47 AM
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I know there isn't a definite list of jazz standards. Anything that is famous enough will do. I just want to know which are the few most popular ones amongst bass players. Might want to post your favorite version of it as well.
My favorite has to be "Somday My Prince Will Come". |
04-29-2009, 11:30 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: North Dakota | | | "The Days of Wine and Roses" as performed by the Ray Brown Trio on the CD Black Orpheus. Just a nice version and a great bass solo. |
04-29-2009, 01:11 PM
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04-29-2009, 03:04 PM
|  | Cogito Ergo Idiot | | Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: SF Bay Area, CA | | Oh man...there are just too many. After not having heard it in many years, I recently played "Stella By Starlight" on a gig. I was reminded that it's just an incredible tune, so let's use that one. For today.  |
04-29-2009, 07:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Youngstown, OH | | | Hhhmmm, there are so many to choose from... but I would have to say either Wayne Shorter's Armageddon or Wildflower, depending on my mood. I definitely have to go with those two though. |
04-29-2009, 09:28 PM
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Amazing song by an amazing player.
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04-29-2009, 09:32 PM
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When autumn leaves start to fall.
Nat King Cole's rendition FTW.
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04-29-2009, 09:34 PM
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04-30-2009, 07:49 AM
| | Pat's the best! | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Northern Virginia, USA | | | "Autumn Leaves" |
04-30-2009, 09:01 AM
| | Banned | | Join Date: Nov 2007 Location: New York City | | | Hmm... probably "Round Midnight" by Monk or "How Insensetive" by Jobim.
But to me the whole notion of a tune being a "standard" kinda supersedes the idea that there's a definitive recorded version...it's the tune's universality (and perhaps ubiquity) that makes it a "standard" in the first place, so to claim that So&So's recording is the best just defeats the point. IMHO. |
04-30-2009, 09:16 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland | | | I'll always love So What and Giant Steps because they got me into jazz, but I'm going to have to say A Night In Tunisia. |
04-30-2009, 09:20 AM
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04-30-2009, 09:22 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jul 2008 Location: Hong Kong | | | Good Jazz musicians are so versatile they can play any kind of tune in anyway they want it. My teacher once showed me how Oscar Peterson played "On The Sunny Side Of The Street" as a ballad I just couldn't believe how beautiful it was. I think it isn't so much about claiming which is the best version of a particular standard is but more about showing others a version which sounds best for you(portrays the feeling, melody of that particular standard well etc), cause there's so many versions that can do that, you can't jsut pick oneand call it definitive .
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04-30-2009, 11:01 AM
| | Pat's the best! | | Join Date: Dec 2000 Location: Northern Virginia, USA | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Crazy Ivan I'll always love So What and Giant Steps because they got me into jazz, but I'm going to have to say A Night In Tunisia. | I love that song, I almost put that instead of Autumn Leaves.
"Goodbye Pork Pie Hat" is pretty fantastic also..... |
04-30-2009, 03:17 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Sep 2008 Location: Corner Brook, Newfoundland | | | The version of Goodbye Pork Pie Hat with Jaco and Joni Mitchell is just beautiful. |
04-30-2009, 03:32 PM
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05-01-2009, 09:00 AM
| | | | My favorite is "All The Things You Are". My favorite versions
of this tune are from two bootleg recordings of Jaco Pastorius and Pat Metheny( one from 1974 and one from 1975) and both contain some of the best live Jaco-solos I have ever heard. |
05-01-2009, 07:15 PM
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05-01-2009, 07:20 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: Tulsa , OK | | | +1 to Goodbye Pork Pie Hat, just a great tune that's so full of emotion.
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05-01-2009, 07:23 PM
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