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As a side note, one of Lennie Tristano's students was the jazz teacher in my father's music school in Mt. Vernon NY. The name Mosca, just popped into my head. We had a set of 78s of Tristano, a trio I think, and I would listen to it in amazement because it sounded so strange. Mosca (or whoever) inv...

By learning jazz from a chord-scale approach and not a musical "language" based approach, we end up with a lot of very technically proficient players that can always play "correct" notes, but don't have much to say. Can’t find the exact source in the moment but there is a quote ...

When I first started improvising using lead sheets I was always bothered by the fact that the bass lines were not present, having done quite a bit of theory using figured bass. (You'll have to factor in that I am a "classical" musician and think of the bass line as just as important as th...

This looks to me like they cut off the piano part from xeroxed original sheet music and put a lead sheet together from only vocal, lyrics and chord names. It is from a fake book called "Million Dollar Library" that came in ten volumes a few hundred pages each! No wonder the FBI was chasing...

Fred G. Unn wrote: ↑21 Feb 2022, 15:46 One brand of legal ones were Tune-Dex cards. Plenty of illegal ones too of course.

This is what they looked like.

Is the music written with a music typewriter?

https://blog.library.gsu.edu/wp-content ... uneDex.jpg

Maybe someone out there knows about international fake books. Regarding European fake books: There are the French ones that as far as I know were compiled by French jazz musician Philippe Baudoin (who also wrote the two volumes of “Jazz – Mode d’Emploi”). They consist of two parts (two books? I hav...

John Ruggero wrote: ↑20 Feb 2022, 23:14 I know what rhythm slashes are and see them in the Monk part. My comment was in response to Fred comment about the D 11.

I should have thought twice. Of course you as a pro know what rhythm slashes are. Sorry, no offense intended.

Typically a D11 would have a G appearing a minor ninth (or displaced by one or more octaves) above a F#, hence the 11th. Otherwise it would be C/D, Am7/D, D7sus, etc. It's not super common, but examples are found easily enough. The pyramid in Charlie Barnet's Skyliner is a fairly well-known example...

The very last from my manuscript collection and off-topic regarding chord symbols:

Some lyricists prefered typewriters over pens and pencils:

And finally Jaki Byard