Hi guys,
After a bit of advice (song examples etc) on 'loosely' learning jazz......... bit vague I know, but read on and you'll get what I mean!
Every year, my local has a charity gig and gets 6 or so bands to play. Generally all we get is your bog standard covers bands, which gets a bit tedious when most of the set lists are the same!
One of my wife's friends wants to do something this year, she's quite an accomplished Jazz singer but because of babies / kids hasn't done anything for a couple of years.
She's got a keyboard player who is apparently sh*t hot, but needs a bassist.
Guess who's been roped in to the role........!
As my background is mainly rock / punk, how do I get my head round some 'acceptable' jazz playing?!
She has said she will keep it simple by doing Ella Fitzgerald - summertime, and Fever (whoever did that one!) sort of stuff, which I think I can blag ok after listening on youtube, but is there any other advice, tips, songs you'd recommend to listen to?
My view of jazz currently is something like:
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