Here is a straight forward 32-bar AABA form vehicle for fun tune , Stew . Spot the ii V s ...
The word joyous comes from the same root as joke . Jazz is Play , have a laugh .
Just a heads up that Octogenerian Legend Ron has been uploading a lot of old tracks onto his You tube channel recently .
Some duo stuff I didn't know existed :
In the same way as tuning every instrument with the same tuner is a Good Idea ,
setting each camera's white balance manually with the same sheet of white paper is a Good Idea .
To paraphrase the birds in the bush proverb ,
a plywood box resonating against the gut is worth two carved tops in the cloud ( or something like that )
During the recording of " Here Comes The Sun " George Harrison's Moog developed a fault where at the end of a phrase it would portamento down to the lowest note . They phoned for an engineer to come and fix it but by the time he arrived they decided to keep one phrase of the recording :
During the recording of Carly Simon's " You're So Vain " bassist Klaus Voorman surprised her with a short intro . She exclaimed " son of a gun ! " in surprise and it ended up on the record .
During the recording of Lee Morgan's " The Sidewinder " bassist Bob Cranshaw forgot the pick-up he had come up with at the start of the tune when it came to the final head so the band had to re-record the ending and the engineer spliced it on .
During the recording of "Roxanne "Sting sat on a piano thinking the lid was down .
And I'm glad Mel Torme has been mentioned . Here he is singing the most recorded jazz tune ever :
For a source of lyrics added to jazz tunes seek Jon Hendricks of Lambert, Hendricks & Ross .