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Cool Blues

November 6, 2014

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Chord Charts

Cool Blues is a blues head written by Charlie Parker. This is a great blues head to know and add to your repertoire. It can be played in any key, but is most commonly played in the key of Bb.

Videos to learn the melody/changes

"Cool Blues" by Charlie Parker

03:08

Sonny Stitt - Cool Blues

04:00

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Brent Vaartstra http://www.brentvaartstra.com

Brent Vaartstra is a professional jazz guitarist and educator living in New York City. He is the head blogger and podcast host for learnjazzstandards.com which he owns and operates. He actively performs around the New York metropolitan area and is the author of the Hal Leonard publication "Visual Improvisation for Jazz Guitar." He's also the host of the music entrepreneurship podcast "Passive Income Musician."