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    Default Sad Walk - Bob Zieff

    Nice song, nice chet baker version, but anybody is playing it actualy and is not in any real book, neither fake book i talk with friends and everybody doubts about chord progresion and how is the bridge.

    I will thank information about this beautiful song 'sad walk'

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    Quote Originally Posted by Xspatau View Post
    Nice song, nice chet baker version, but anybody is playing it actualy and is not in any real book, neither fake book i talk with friends and everybody doubts about chord progresion and how is the bridge.

    I will thank information about this beautiful song 'sad walk'

    Ye.. Me too , please share

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    Also not sure about the bridge. Corrections are welcome.


    Sad Walk by Bob Zieff

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    Default Corrections to A part end..

    I would say that is G is G-7b5 in the final II-V-I of each A part


    Sad Walk

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    Thank you, shinito! Will check any time soon …

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    Just ran across this thread. It happens that Bob Z is an old friend (very old -- he must be well into his 80s by now, but still has a weekly jazz show on Dickinson College radio), and I'm planning on visiting him and his wife this summer. I'll ask him for the changes!

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    when i lissen a Chet Backer record its not Gm7(b5) C7 Fm but GbMaj7 Fm7 each A part
    lissen good a bass part playing by Niels-Henning Ørsted Pedersen.

    Sad Walk - Bob Zieff
    Last edited by Igornass; 03-06-2016 at 12:41 PM.

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    I can't open any of your files, they are just blank pages. Does anyone know why that is? I'm also very interested in the changes of this song but i still have no idea about them. A thousand times thank you if someone could help me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KarelNaessens View Post
    I can't open any of your files, they are just blank pages. Does anyone know why that is? I'm also very interested in the changes of this song but i still have no idea about them. A thousand times thank you if someone could help me.
    The chord chart files are displayed using the iReal pro apps available for android, iOS and Mac devices.
    http://irealpro.com
    For windows PC's read this:
    http://irealpro.com/how-to-use-ireal-pro-on-windows-pc/
    )BOB
    Last edited by pdxdjazz; 05-30-2016 at 12:59 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pdxdjazz View Post
    The chord chart files are displayed using the iReal pro apps available for android, iOS and Mac devices.
    http://irealpro.com
    For windows PC's read this:
    http://irealpro.com/how-to-use-ireal-pro-on-windows-pc/
    )BOB
    Bob Z sent me the chart for this tune. It is written exactly as played on the 1955 Chet Baker recording with Dick Twardzik:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fHW_WqXatMk

    Bob says that the pizz and arco bass parts are important -- it's not just a "melody over changes" tune, as with most of his compositions, but the actual parts are written out more than most composers tend to do. Obviously, you can play it anyway you want -- in later years, Baker recorded it several more times, but he changed both the melody and a few of the chords, making them a bit more "conventional" (to my ear, anyway). In Bob's chart, bars 3-4 are both d-minor, which makes for a somewhat bumpy transition to A-flat in measure 5 -- but that's obviously the sound he was looking for. The recording with Twardzik is pretty much exactly as in Bob's chart.

    The first 8 goes like this: Gmin7-b5, C7, Dmin7-b5, same; Ab, Dbmaj7-#11, Gb, F-minor
    The second 8 is the same except that the 6th bar is F/A, then Gb, and F-minor.

    The bridge goes: f-minor, f-minor/E, F-minor/Eb, D7, Db, Db, Ab, Ab.

    Hope this helps! I'm hoping to visit Bob and his wife later in the year.

    Urb

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