Sonny Rollins - Things You Need To Know About Jazz Blues

Are we getting blues all wrong by thinking about the chords? Content: 0:00 Intro - Sonny Rollins 0:25 Tenor Madness with John Coltrane 0:56 Example #1 1:14 Changing the Chords - Intuitive and Decision driven 2:10 Is it Chi-Chi changes? 2:44 Altered but not altered scale 3:19 A Motif across the Chords 4:24 Eaxmple #1 Slow 4:45 Reharmonizing Bars 5-9 5:07 Example #2 5:30 A Musical Reharmonization with two voices 6:50 Example #2 Slow 6:59 Example #3 7:09 Parallel Minor Chords (Like Parker and Coltrane) 8:04 Is that a Wrong note, Mr Rollins? 8:55 Example #3 slow 9:10 Blues phrases that are not Dominant chords 10:09 Example #4 10:14 Bb Triad Chromaticism 11:44 Example #4 Slow 11:56 Examples #5 and #6 12:10 Using Bbmaj7 on the Blues 12:36 Examples #5 and #6 - Slow
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