Spring Is Here - Richard Rodgers

Spring Is Here (Bill Evans changes) - Richard Rodgers

kenlister,

Thanks for this beautiful chart.

For easier readability, I made the chord symbols smaller in the bars that have more than two chords.

Spring Is Here-Rev JE - Richard Rodgers

Cheers,
Jer

I clutter up slow tunes with lots of changes because I like the challenge of finding progressions that work.

Bill Evans was of course the master of this. His changes on Spring Is Here:

Spring Is Here-Rev JE with Ad Lib Ending - Richard Rodgers

I love the way he sticks in a phrase from I'm Old-Fashioned after the Eb7/Db in the Coda.

Cheers,
Jer

EDIT: My changes are not exactly Bill's throughout. They're actually somewhat simplified. Kenlister's changes are from Chuck Sher's New Real Book 3 and are taken directly from a transcription of Bill's playing.

Spring Is Here / John Coltrane on Standard Coltrane album.

Spring Is Here (Coltrane) - Richard Rodgers

Jer,
Good job :-)

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Originally Posted by engelbach

EDIT: My changes are not exactly Bill's throughout. They're actually somewhat simplified.

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Ditto! You can say that again!

Spring Is Here / Ella Fitzgerald
taken from Complete Jazz Series 1956, Vol. 5.

Spring Is Here (Ella) - Richard Rodgers

SPRING IS HERE had multiple issues, but suffice to say I couldn't play it through with the music I had. So here's the version from "557 Standards in C" which has some nice voice leading goodies thrown in. Just in time for spring!

Spring Is Here - GH3K - Richard Rodgers

Spring Is Here w Verse - dp - Richard Rodgers