ALL BLUES – G (Miles Davis)
3/4 swing, 12-bar blues form – slightly different chords
ALL THE THINGS YOU ARE - Ab/Fm (standard - Chet Baker here)
Straight ahead swing. Could be a vocal
DO
IT AGAIN - G minor (Steely Dan)
Boogaloo or Latin - changes not difficult
GREEN ONIONS - F (Booker T)
Shuffle, simple Blues
Recorded melody is on organ. Suggest that everybody play the lead - horns,
guitars, etc. Download includes transposed charts.
JACK OF SPEED
- D minor (Steely Dan)
This is the Levin Brothers instrumental arrangement in D minor.
The original recording is in F# minor and is much more "pop"
LITTLE SUNFLOWER – D minor (Freddie Hubbard)
Straight 8ths Latin. 32-bar form with 2 chords
LUSH LIFE - Db (Billy Strayhorn)
Standard ballad
(This recording: Many better singers have recorded this tune, but its
interesting listening to the composer sing and play it.)
MERCY
MERCY MERCY – B flat (Joe Zawinul/Cannonball Adderly)
Medium rock. Complex form, but not difficult
* 7/15/19 Charts in the wrong format were
accidentally included in the ZIP folder and uploaded for this. That's been
corrected in this new download link.
MOONDANCE –
A minor (Van Morrison)
Straight-ahead medium swing
*This could be a vocal
ODE TO BILLIE JOE - D (Bobbie Gentry)
Deb Mastelotto's arrangement
SUMMERTIME – A minor (Gershwin: Gil Evans/Miles Davis version)
Straight-ahead medium swing
*This
could be a vocal
TAKE FIVE – Eb minor (Dave Brubeck)
Swing in 5/4. Simple 2 chord vamp for solos, tricky bridge
THE CHICKEN - Bb (Jaco Pastorius/Maceo Parker)
Funk/Rock - great horns lead |