Autumn leaves sheet music for bass download free in pdf or midi. Cannonball adderley autumn leaves bass ultimateguitar. Also on the session is trumpeter miles davis in one of his handful of recording dates for blue note. Here are the first 16 bars of miles davis solo on autumn leaves 1958. Print and download mercy, mercy, mercy sheet music by julian cannonball adderley arranged for piano. By using the minor diatonic series of 7th chords chart you can conclude that a minor iivi. 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. Chord changes to autumn leaves new real book submitted. I had a great time coming up with all the cool lines for the solos. Jan 31, 2018 learn miles davis solo on autumn leaves. Cannonball adderley meets miles davis autumn leaves.
Autumn leaves the song and the chord melody arrangement. Autumn leaves is an excellent jazz standard to start with because it covers some basic chord progressions and harmonic. In the land of hifi with julian cannonball adderley. 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. Miles dewey davis, then two choruses of your basic cannonball adderley altosaxophonic melodious rhythmical genius, miles soloing for. If you want the pdf send me message, ill give you for free. Nov 30, 2017 one of the most popular jazz standards of all time is autumn leaves by joseph kosma. Autumn leaves concert on the cannonball adderley blue note recording somethin else 1958 c7 f7 b. Autumn leaves tutorial intro, chord melody, singlenote. How to play autumn leaves on guitar jamie holroyd guitar. Check out the original recording to learn them, as they are an important part of this composition. Hey, so have you ever wished there was an omnibooklike publication for cannonball adderley.
The first thing which is glaringly obvious even just by looking at the music on the page is miles. Autumn leaves is popular with jazz musicians, in part, because of the cannonball adderleymiles davis and bill evans recordings below. Autumn leaves from the jazz pianists ultimate guide to. For those of you out there that already have a firm grasp on creating bluegrass licks and are interested in. Download or print cannonball adderley work song sheet music notes, chords in minutes. See the intermediate pdf with tabs for the complete arrangement. Indeed, somethin else is a kindred jazz classic, a sibling of sorts to kind of blue. Remember to click on the included lesson mp3 to hear the chords and melody in action.
Why not see what went down basswise on what many people think is the. The original song is hosted at chordie works as a search engine and provides onthefly formatting. Miles davis on autumn leaves from cannonball adderleys album, somethin else. Each section is 8 bars long and marked out on the example below for you to follow along with. This lp is notable for the presence and prominent contributions of miles davis, in one of his few recording dates for blue note records. Here is a site where you can order a cannonball adderley solo transcriptions book from. Autumn leaves bass transcription sam jones somethin else.
This famous jazz standard is both a great melody and a fairly easy option to play an easy chord melody. Julian cannonball adderley mercy, mercy, mercy sheet. Its often one of the first jazz standards that aspiring jazz musicians learn to play and for many good reasons. Autumn leaves is a great song to get starting playing easy chord melody arrangements on guitar. The album was released on the japanese riverside label and features additional material from the sankai hall concert that. Print and download in pdf or midi autumn leaves from somethin else cannonball adderley 1958. The key that i am using for autumn leaves in this arrangement is g minor. Autumn leaves melody and solo study jazz guitar online. Alto saxophone solo songbook solos at concert pitch. Check out autumn leaves by cannonball adderley on amazon music.
Autumn leaves sheet music for trumpet download free in. Pay special attention to the hits that are played on the head. Autumn leaves eva cassidy chords and lyrics for guitar. Im referring of course to miles davis solo over autumn leaves, off the classic cannonball adderley album entitled something else. Cannonball autumn leaves solo sax on the web forum. Adderley was a member of davis group at the time this album was recorded. In this video i teach a solo that i believe every serious jazz student should learn, regardless of what instrument they play. 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. Autumn leaves sheet music for bass download free in pdf. Autumn leaves tutorial intro, chord melody, singlenote solo. Cannonball adderley tabs with free online tab player.
Cannonball adderley autumn leaves solo guitar pro tab with free online tab player, speed control and loop. In this lesson i will go over a chord melody arrangement of autumn leaves that i made. Print and download the jive samba sheet music by julian cannonball adderley arranged for piano. Autumn leaves from the jazz pianists ultimate guide to the. Cannonball adderley miles davis les feuilles mortes. Ive added this track to the following spotify playlist.
And since the early 1970s, it has remained popular because its featured prominently near the beginning of the real book. Complete your cannonball adderleys five stars collection. Somethin else is, to me, the most exciting of the five moodevoking tracks in this set. This version of autumn leaves is probably the most famous recorded version out there. Chordie does not index songs against artistscomposers will. A quick youtube search will find you recordings by artists as diverse as stan getz, john coltrane, chet baker, nat king cole, barbara streisand, eric clapton, etc. Autumn leaves cannonball adderley bass joseph kosma johnny mercer as played by sam jones intro vamp straight. Autumn leaves by cannonball adderley on amazon music. 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. Autumn leaves cannonball adderley song info allmusic. Cannonball adderley sheet music, tabs and lead sheets. However, when i was researching this tune we found very few recordings in e minor.
This article traces the compositions interesting history through the various published versions, and shows how its oftstudied musical structure has ties to classical compositions. 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. It features miles davis playing the theme and then a classic solo. Julian cannonball adderley the jive samba sheet music. Bass tabs of songs by cannonball adderley 1 bass tab including autumn leaves. Autumn leaves is popular with jazz musicians, in part, because of the cannonball adderley miles davis and bill evans recordings below. Autumn leaves easy chord melody arrangement for beginners tabs.
Bass tablature for autumn leaves by cannonball adderley. Somethin else is a 1958 album by jazz musician julian cannonball adderley, regarded as a landmark album in the hard bop and cool styles. Because of this, having a strong hold on the melody and improvising is essential learning. Jeannine cannonball adderley quintet sheet music, music. Here it is, served hot on a platter by basso ridiculoso, all of it the famous dorian intro vamp, the head played by mr. 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. How to navigate autumn leaves learn jazz standards. Miles davis solo on autumn leaves jazz guitar lessons. Download your autumn leaves chord melody, solo, and more pdf here.
One of the most popular jazz standards of all time is autumn leaves by joseph kosma. Above the written chords i wrote in the chord positions in the gmajor scale. Cannonball adderley, according to leonard feather, is a player cast in the bop moud of charlie parker, who was crazy man but also a legend. Autumn leaves is a 32 bar song form that follows the aabc song form structure.
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. This is not the key from the real book, but it is the most common key for performing the song. Judging by the number of times it has been recorded, autumn leaves is the most important nonamerican standard in the jazz repertoire. 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. Video demonstration intermediate chord melodyin this video, autumn leaves jazz guitar chord melody intermediate level is demonstrated, with some improvisation. The chords that are being used are quartal voicings, a harmonic device made famous by miles piano player bill evans. 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 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. Cannonball adderley somethin else blue note records. The song above is not stored on the chordie server. 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.
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. Realaudio file, bb and c concert key versions are available. His piano part features chopinesque chromatic thirds which paint a sound picture of colorful leaves falling from trees. 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. Cannonball adderleys 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. But no recording of autumn leaves is as definitive as cannonball adderley s recording from his album entitled somethin else. With chord names, introductory text and performance notes. The chords are not too crazy either, so the question arises, whats different. Here is a piece by julian cannonball adderley from his 1959 album. Having two a sections which are almost the same means the harmony and chords in the first half of the tune are almost identical.
Vinyl 7 cannonball adderley miles davis les feuilles mortes autumn leaves 1962, vinyl discogs. He worked with trumpeter miles davis, on his own 1958 somethin else album, and on. 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. The recordings we checked out were in all kinds of different keys. Work song tab by cannonball adderley songsterr tabs with rhythm. This pdf method for guitar contains 40 ii v i jazz guitar lines with tab. Well i sure do, and i found out that my saxophone teacher happens to have in his possession exactly that. 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. I hope you enjoy working on my arrangement of autumn leaves.
Autumn leaves is played often in two different keys, g minor and e minor. Easy autumn leaves chord melody and quick howtoplay. Miles davis on autumn leaves from cannonball adderley s album, somethin else. Cannonball adderleys five stars autumn leaves discogs. I wonder if gm became standard after the late 50s recording by cannonball adderley and miles davis on the album. You could also go to your local music store and look around, or ask if they carry any cannonball adderley solo transcription books. However, formatting rules can vary widely between applications and fields of interest or study. 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. Sermonette julian cannonball adderley dat dere bobby timmons autumn leaves joseph kosma arrangements of this song. 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. Cannonball adderley s somethin else, one of the few albums featuring miles davis as a sideman, is a monument to clarity.