This thread is the place to share and discover the joyful sound of Bossa Nova, Samba, and all other styles of Brazilian music.
Stan Getz & Joao Gilberto - Getz/Gilberto (1963)
Song List:
- Girl From Ipanema
- Doralice
- Para Machuchar Meu Coracao
- Desafinado
- Corcovado (Quiet Nights Of Quiet Stars)
- So Danco Samba
- O Grande Amor
- Vivo Soñando (Dreamer)
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A wonderful piano solo to transcribe here if you have the time…
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pretty much anytime Elaine Elias plays and sings bossa nova - i love it.
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Insensatez (How Insensitive) - this is one of the next bossa tunes we will cover. Great tune!
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Corcovado - a famous latin number written by the great Antônio Carlos Jobim in 1960.
"Quiet nights of quiet stars, quiet chords from my guitar, floating on the silence that surrounds us… "
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I like this tune… will be a nice Bossa to cover 
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Beautiful! I could listen to that all night.
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Yes the harmonies and melody are wonderful!
The tune is also played as a ballad but i much prefer the bossa feel.
Here’s the score:
Estate.pdf (109.2 KB)
Another lovely recording of Estate… I think all of the solos are superb:
Chet Baker - TRUMPET
Nicola Stilo - FLUTE
Diane Varvara - S. SAXOPHONE
Michel Grailler - PIANO
Riccardo Dal Fra - BASS
Leo Mitchel - DRUMS
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ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh, so subtle and full of emotion. really look forward to this lesson 
Yes it’s a wonderful tune! 
Marcos Valle has to be one of my Bossa/Latin heroes, from any era of his output. This in English was ‘Crickets Sing for Anamaria’ - I love this more recent version of his:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7mM52D84-Y
Lovely! Funny, I was listening to Astrud last night after doing some recording with Matt.
Nice intro chords, reminds me of a funk progression I like to play around with… I’ve just made a little demo for you. Basically a minor 251 in D, but using a G-7 instead of the E-7b5.
https://vimeo.com/255315619/124be6859f
Then also playing passing chords here and there, such as A-7, and a Bb13b9 as a passing chord into the A7 one time through the progression.
I also do a chromatic minor 9th thing which is move of a house music kinda sound.
Finally, I went to town with sus chords, they certainly add a punch! You can play them in virtually any order and they sound great, obviously with a point of resolution in mind. Major 7th a half step below the root for that rich sus13 sound 
Also like the flute sections. There’s an awesome jazz flutist in Seattle called Bernie Jacobs: http://www.berniejacobsmusic.com/ - he sometimes hosts the Monday night jam at Capitol Cider in Capitol Hill - one of the best jams in Seattle if you’re ever there on a Monday.
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Vimeo’s standard embed has a slow down control now… click the cog icon in the bottom right hand side.
Cheers.
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That’s awesome Hayden - thanks for adding that! Jazz-funk style is basically my thing, and some Latin influences are also good. Taken literally, I guess it’s taking (and adapting) the jazz harmony approach and using funk rhythms, emphasizing the 1, using passing chords etc - a funk tutorial or 2 would be amazing if you ever had plans to include in the future. This is great - I’m going to slow this video down and digest it 
Thanks again Hayden - your time in replying back is much appreciated. I guess it’s to do with what someone would be looking to gain by learning jazz harmony. For me, I know that it’s an element I want to incorporate in what I produce - where that then takes me is something I’m open-minded about. I’m clear that the influences that most resonate with me include jazz to some extent, but also that my goal in learning is to become so much more familiar with jazz so that I can use it as an ingredient, if you like. In that sense I’m probably going to gain more by applying them to my own efforts at transcribing and - as I progress - to re harmonizing the tunes I love.
It’s great that you envisage PianoGroove encompassing all these things - and only as I learn more that I appreciate how jazz really was the big daddy of them all!
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Wow, yeah - that solo is the jam! Nice one!
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Fantastic, thanks for the tip I’m going to be in Seattle in a couple of weeks so will look up Capitol Cider jam session.
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