Sushant Sharma
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So after the wonderful advice by forum members on acquainting onself with Jazz standards as a step to enjoy and appreciate the form more, and with inputs by a FM, I thought of starting this thread.
Google led me to some good explanations "A standard should be melodically simple (not simplistic) and harmonically attractive. To me a mark of a standard, it is capable of being interpreted over and over again, so the song has to have a certain amount of meat or heft to it to be able to stand up that way." Jules Styne, Composer.
"Great vocalists, as well as jazz musicians like Oscar Peterson realized that this is a canon, almost like of classical music and the way classical music is reinterpreted by many performers- we can do the same".
What do you think a "STANDARD" entails and why do some become it and some don't?
Personally for me, the album Night Train by Oscar Peterson Trio was my first album that I have listened to the most in the past few years and recognize the tunes on it. Side story of this is being on a vacation in Bangkok where I picked up a few LPs. Some mistakes were made as I picked up some that are very forgetful and some that are too complex for me. The Salesman (bless him) suggested that if I was just getting into jazz, I should buy this album and on his recommendation I did. Much later I heard other variations of C jam Blues and a couple of others covered on this album.But surely I recognize the personal stylings that others put on these tunes due to having heard them already.
So without going on and on, please list your favourite jazz standards (and some variation of it that you enjoy) or other info you could share.
I start with a recent discovery "Cherokee" by Ray Noble and made popular by Bird and used in "koko" and then covered by other greats as Clifford Brown and Hawk.
Interesting write up on the song Cherokee here
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Google led me to some good explanations "A standard should be melodically simple (not simplistic) and harmonically attractive. To me a mark of a standard, it is capable of being interpreted over and over again, so the song has to have a certain amount of meat or heft to it to be able to stand up that way." Jules Styne, Composer.
"Great vocalists, as well as jazz musicians like Oscar Peterson realized that this is a canon, almost like of classical music and the way classical music is reinterpreted by many performers- we can do the same".
What do you think a "STANDARD" entails and why do some become it and some don't?
Personally for me, the album Night Train by Oscar Peterson Trio was my first album that I have listened to the most in the past few years and recognize the tunes on it. Side story of this is being on a vacation in Bangkok where I picked up a few LPs. Some mistakes were made as I picked up some that are very forgetful and some that are too complex for me. The Salesman (bless him) suggested that if I was just getting into jazz, I should buy this album and on his recommendation I did. Much later I heard other variations of C jam Blues and a couple of others covered on this album.But surely I recognize the personal stylings that others put on these tunes due to having heard them already.
So without going on and on, please list your favourite jazz standards (and some variation of it that you enjoy) or other info you could share.
I start with a recent discovery "Cherokee" by Ray Noble and made popular by Bird and used in "koko" and then covered by other greats as Clifford Brown and Hawk.
The Life of a Song: ‘Cherokee’
Stripped down to its essentials, Ray Noble’s composition became one of the foundation stones of modern jazz
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