Benny Green Trio Plus Harry Allen
If you are a jazz musician, you are expected to know jazz standards. There are thousands of jazz standards, and it is our goal to provide a good place to learn tunes on the internet. A jazz musician should know several hundred jazz standards by heart as a BARE MINIMUM. Don’t be the guy or girl on the bandstand that doesn’t know any tunes!
It is not good to always be attached to a fakebook! You can use the fakebook as a resource, but never use it as an excuse to not learn a tune. You shouldn’t need to bring a fakebook to your jam session or gig. We have provided you with the resources and framework for learning tunes so that you will no longer need a fakebook.
We have provided you with:
- A jazz jam track to play along with for each tune
- A pdf of the chord changes
- Recordings to listen to from Youtube and Amazon
- It is our philosophy that it is better to learn jazz standards primarily by ear. That includes the melody!
- We do not own the rights to the songs, and thus cannot provide a written melody. If you must look at the melody on a page, have a fakebook handy. Wikiphonia.org is also a good resource for some free lead sheets, although there are often mistakes. Remember, recordings are always the ultimate authority; they are the Bible for how these tunes should be played! A fakebook or lead sheet does not provide a complete picture.
Stay posted; we update often, and are in the process of building a large list of jazz standards you can learn!
-Camden Hughes