50 Tunes List

paulmcevoy75

Hello all

I have been messing with AI stuff a lot lately which tbh I don't feel good about at all but it's permitting me to do some stuff that's very interesting to me (more to come, audio processing stuff).

Anyway I worked with Claude to put together a list of 50 tunes to teach you how to play every sort of jazz there is. Sort of kind of anyway.

It's a little bit uneven but I stand by it. Claude wrote a bit about each tune at the end, sounds like a crackhead.

There's some modern tunes at the end I don't have sheets on and don't really know but they are examples of blowing over odd time signatures.

Perhaps someone here will dig it.

Improvisation Repertoire - 50 Tunes.pdf

It's a work in progress...

spatzo

Hi Paul! That's very interesting and of course that's the logical "intelligent" answer to reach the Graal. This work has already been done analytically by the french jazz pianist and writter Philippe Baudoin (already famous for his book "1558 Jazz Chords Changes"). The work is contained in the chapter 10 of his book "JAZZ MODE D'EMPLOI Vol 1".

He indicates that's the main harmonic progressions found in tonal Jazz can all be found in 57 tunes (40 main structures and 17 variants). He analyses the progressions, the most representative tune and the known associated ones. That's a great work that helps visualize easier the real structure of a tune.

He shows also by the way the thematic connections and possible melodic interchange among themes: for exemple when playing on a I-VI-II-V progression on "The Way You Look Tonight" you could play the theme of "More" or the one from "My Foolish Heart",... etc...

Baudoin also gives names to the progressions:

[I ][VI][II][V ] is an ANATOLE on 4 bars => C Am7 Dm7 G7 (in C major)

[I ][I7][IV][IVm] is a CHRISTOPHE on 4 bars => C C7 F Fm (in C Major)

Those progressions can obviously be also condensed in two bars structures [I VI][II V] and [I I7][IV IVm] (same names)

So if you want to memorize easily the chords of, let's say, "Ain't Misbehaving" you can memorize them as a succession of 2 bars structures like this

AIN'T MISBEHAVING (PART A) is ANATOLE + CHRISTOPHE + ANATOLE + TURNAROUND

and I GOT RHYTHM ? (PART A) is ANATOLE + ANATOLE + CHRISTOPHE + TURNAROUND...

Well in a way that's pure french cartesianism

musekatcher

Are Baudoin's books available in English, looking but not finding.

BillDaCostaWilliams

During Django a Montmartre 2023, Philippe Baudoin guided us on a terrific walking tour of Django's Montmartre pointing out locations of legendary QHCF gigs and Django's one-time apartment.

He has been working on a book on Django's music for some years - anyone have details on a publication date?

spatzo

I think they are only available in french but it's easy to understand you have the charts and the names of the tunes

The book should be ready to be published now so probably 2027

Buco

Wasn't there a post within last year or so that posted a list of songs Christian VH put together that cover a majority of situations you might find yourself in as an improviser?