Autumn leaves cannonball adderley song info allmusic. Ive created a chord diagrams pdf and id like to share it free, no registration required hello, ive never found a guitar chord chart showing. This version of autumn leaves is probably the most famous recorded version out there. Print and download the jive samba sheet music by julian cannonball adderley arranged for piano. Julian edwin cannonball adderley september 15, 1928 august 8, 1975 was a jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s.
Check out autumn leaves by cannonball adderley on amazon music. Cannonball adderley somethin else blue note records. Im referring of course to miles davis solo over autumn leaves, off the classic cannonball adderley album entitled something else. Autumn leaves eva cassidy chords and lyrics for guitar. The chords are not too crazy either, so the question arises, whats different. Autumn leaves the song and the chord melody arrangement. Cannonball autumn leaves solo sax on the web forum.
Jan 31, 2018 learn miles davis solo on autumn leaves. Here is a piece by julian cannonball adderley from his 1959 album. Autumn leaves from the jazz pianists ultimate guide to the. Autumn leaves tutorial intro, chord melody, singlenote. Autumn leaves les feuilles mortes joseph kosma jacques prevert johnny mercer the music was created, before, by joseph kosma for the ballet le rendezvous in 1945, and prevert wrote, after, the words for the movie. And since the early 1970s, it has remained popular because its featured prominently near the beginning of the real book. The album was released on the japanese riverside label and features additional material from the sankai hall concert that.
This lp is notable for the presence and prominent contributions of miles davis, in one of his few recording dates for blue note records. How to play autumn leaves on guitar jamie holroyd guitar. Each section is 8 bars long and marked out on the example below for you to follow along with. I had a great time coming up with all the cool lines for the solos. His piano part features chopinesque chromatic thirds which paint a sound picture of colorful leaves falling from trees. Cannonball adderley meets miles davis autumn leaves. Cannonball adderley miles davis les feuilles mortes. Autumn leaves melody and solo study jazz guitar online. Autumn leaves sheet music for trumpet download free in. Autumn leaves concert on the cannonball adderley blue note recording somethin else 1958 c7 f7 b. One of the most popular jazz standards of all time is autumn leaves by joseph kosma. Cannonball adderleys five stars autumn leaves discogs. Cannonball adderley tabs, chords, guitar, bass, ukulele chords, power tabs and guitar pro tabs including mercy mercy mercy, autumn leaves, work song, country preacher, sack o woe. Cannonball adderley tabs with free online tab player.
Download or print cannonball adderley work song sheet music notes, chords in minutes. Miles dewey davis, then two choruses of your basic cannonball adderley altosaxophonic melodious rhythmical genius, miles soloing for. Hey, so have you ever wished there was an omnibooklike publication for cannonball adderley. Its often one of the first jazz standards that aspiring jazz musicians learn to play and for many good reasons. Miles davis on autumn leaves from cannonball adderley s album, somethin else. Check out the original recording to learn them, as they are an important part of this composition. Cannonball adderleys somethin else, one of the few albums featuring miles davis as a sideman, is a monument to clarity. The original song is hosted at chordie works as a search engine and provides onthefly formatting. Autumn leaves sheet music for bass download free in pdf or midi. Cannonball adderley autumn leaves bass ultimateguitar. The song above is not stored on the chordie server. The recordings we checked out were in all kinds of different keys.
Bass tabs of songs by cannonball adderley 1 bass tab including autumn leaves. Here it is, served hot on a platter by basso ridiculoso, all of it the famous dorian intro vamp, the head played by mr. For those of you out there that already have a firm grasp on creating bluegrass licks and are interested in. Somethin else is, to me, the most exciting of the five moodevoking tracks in this set. Download your autumn leaves chord melody, solo, and more pdf here. Bass tablature for autumn leaves by cannonball adderley. The chords that are being used are quartal voicings, a harmonic device made famous by miles piano player bill evans.
Suggested listeningjulian cannonball adderleys somethin else album recorded in 1958. I wonder if gm became standard after the late 50s recording by cannonball adderley and miles davis on the album. Julian cannonball adderley the jive samba sheet music. Miles davis on autumn leaves from cannonball adderleys album, somethin else. Judging by the number of times it has been recorded, autumn leaves is the most important nonamerican standard in the jazz repertoire. Like davis kind of blue, recorded with adderley the following year, it is calm and uncluttered and direct, each line and phrase contributing something crucial to the whole.
If you want the pdf send me message, ill give you for free. Here is a site where you can order a cannonball adderley solo transcriptions book from. It establishes at once, and sustains throughout its considerable length, a certain mood of restrained exultancy, a lowglowing davis fire that burns contemplatively until stirred to even greater warmth by the embers of adderley s stimulation. Autumn leaves from the jazz pianists ultimate guide to.
See the intermediate pdf with tabs for the complete arrangement. By using the minor diatonic series of 7th chords chart you can conclude that a minor iivi. Here are the first 16 bars of miles davis solo on autumn leaves 1958. Vinyl 7 cannonball adderley miles davis les feuilles mortes autumn leaves 1962, vinyl discogs. I hope you enjoy working on my arrangement of autumn leaves. Having two a sections which are almost the same means the harmony and chords in the first half of the tune are almost identical.
Ive added this track to the following spotify playlist. Adderley was a member of davis group at the time this album was recorded. However, when i was researching this tune we found very few recordings in e minor. In the land of hifi with julian cannonball adderley. Autumn leaves kosma prevert a track that could segue into kind of blue, miles simmering muted trumpet paints the melody, adderleys alto solo is inspired, beautiful in structure, dripping with elegant grace notes and flourishes, falling away to rippling piano worthy of duke pearson on idle moments, while blakey is the epitome of. Cannonball adderley s somethin else, one of the few albums featuring miles davis as a sideman, is a monument to clarity. This post has been identified as artist cannonball adderley and track autumn leaves 1999 digital remaster. In this lesson i will go over a chord melody arrangement of autumn leaves that i made. Autumn leaves is played often in two different keys, g minor and e minor.
Julian edwin cannonball adderley september 15, 1928 august 8, 1975 was an american jazz alto saxophonist of the hard bop era of the 1950s and 1960s adderley is remembered for his 1966 soul jazz single mercy, mercy, mercy, a crossover hit on the pop charts it was also covered by the buckinghams. Autumn leaves is popular with jazz musicians, in part, because of the cannonball adderley miles davis and bill evans recordings below. Autumn leaves is a great song to get starting playing easy chord melody arrangements on guitar. Also on the session is trumpeter miles davis in one of his handful of recording dates for blue note. Because of this, having a strong hold on the melody and improvising is essential learning. Video demonstration intermediate chord melodyin this video, autumn leaves jazz guitar chord melody intermediate level is demonstrated, with some improvisation. This week ive been looking at the first 16 bars of miles solo which is twice through the a section. Cannonball adderley tabs songsterr tabs with rhythm. Autumn leaves tutorial intro, chord melody, singlenote solo. How to navigate autumn leaves learn jazz standards.
Bass transcription of the walking bass line over autumn leaves by sam jones on the album somethin else by cannonball adderley recorded march 9, 1958 cannonball autumn leaves bass transcription sam jones somethin else cannonball adderley on vimeo. This pdf method for guitar contains 40 ii v i jazz guitar lines with tab. Autumn leaves is a 32 bar song form that follows the aabc song form structure. If you accidently stand next to a piano for too long someone is going to ask you to play autumn leaves, so this is a tune you gotta know. Sermonette julian cannonball adderley dat dere bobby timmons autumn leaves joseph kosma arrangements of this song.
Song information for autumn leaves cannonball adderley on allmusic. Miles davis uses simple melodic phrases in his solo, all in the bb major scale, except on the gm6 in bar 7 and 15, where he switches to bb lydian g dorian and emphasizes the natural 6. Realaudio file, bb and c concert key versions are available. This is not the key from the real book, but it is the most common key for performing the song. He worked with trumpeter miles davis, on his own 1958 somethin else album, and on. Print and download mercy, mercy, mercy sheet music by julian cannonball adderley arranged for piano.
Autumn leaves is a live album by jazz saxophonist cannonball adderley recorded at the koseinenkin kaikan and sankei hall in tokyo during his 1963 japanese tour and featuring performances by adderley with nat adderley, yusef lateef, joe zawinul, sam jones and louis hayes. Pay special attention to the hits that are played on the head. Above the written chords i wrote in the chord positions in the gmajor scale. Miles davis solo on autumn leaves jazz guitar lessons. Well i sure do, and i found out that my saxophone teacher happens to have in his possession exactly that. Cannonball adderley sheet music, tabs and lead sheets. This famous jazz standard is both a great melody and a fairly easy option to play an easy chord melody. Autumn leaves is popular with jazz musicians, in part, because of the cannonball adderleymiles davis and bill evans recordings below. Chordie does not index songs against artistscomposers will.
Im referring of course to miles davis solo over autumn leaves, off the classic cannonball adderley album entitled something else this rendition of autumn leaves is played at a fairly relaxed tempo and features miles signature use of space between his. Julian cannonball adderley mercy, mercy, mercy sheet. But no recording of autumn leaves is as definitive as cannonball adderley s recording from his album entitled somethin else. Autumn leaves by cannonball adderley on amazon music. A blog supreme with a sweetly ferocious style, the alto saxophonist bridged the postbop of the 1950s and 60s to the jazz fusion of the 70s and. The first thing which is glaringly obvious even just by looking at the music on the page is miles. Cannonball adderley autumn leaves solo guitar pro tab with free online tab player, speed control and loop. Autumn leaves easy chord melody arrangement for beginners tabs. Work song tab by cannonball adderley songsterr tabs with rhythm. Complete your cannonball adderleys five stars collection. Nov 30, 2017 one of the most popular jazz standards of all time is autumn leaves by joseph kosma.
Jeannine cannonball adderley quintet sheet music, music. Remember to click on the included lesson mp3 to hear the chords and melody in action. Somethin else is a 1958 album by jazz musician julian cannonball adderley, regarded as a landmark album in the hard bop and cool styles. Autumn leaves is an excellent jazz standard to start with because it covers some basic chord progressions and harmonic. Easy autumn leaves chord melody and quick howtoplay. This article traces the compositions interesting history through the various published versions, and shows how its oftstudied musical structure has ties to classical compositions. It features miles davis playing the theme and then a classic solo. Chord changes to autumn leaves new real book submitted. Why not see what went down basswise on what many people think is the. Autumn leaves cannonball adderley bass joseph kosma johnny mercer as played by sam jones intro vamp straight.
Adderley is remembered for his 1966 single mercy mercy mercy, a crossover hit on the pop charts, and for his work with trumpeter miles davis, including on the epochal album kind of blue 1959. Indeed, somethin else is a kindred jazz classic, a sibling of sorts to kind of blue. With chord names, introductory text and performance notes. History and analysis of autumn leaves philippe baudoin introduction this article is a revised portion of a larger work that will be published as encyclopedia of 2500 jazz tunes a thematic, historical, musicological, and discographical catalogue.
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