Black Nile: Journey Through The Real Book #34 (Jazz Piano Lesson)

Jazz piano solo and musical/historical discussion of Wayne Shorter’s “Black Nile.

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Digging deeper into the jazz repertoire with “Black Nile” 0:00
“Take The ‘A’ Train,” “So What,” “All Of Me,” “Autumn Leaves,” “All The Things You Are,” and “Blue Bossa” are great tunes for beginning jazz musicians to learn 0:18
Wayne Shorter’s transition from the hard bop of Art Blakey to the more abstract concept of the 1960s Miles Davis Quintet 0:38
Wayne Shorter’s harmonic concept in tunes such as “Infant Eyes” and “Pinocchio” 0:50
The musical form of “Black Nile” 1:06
Wayne Shorter’s use of an old-fashioned introductory verse in his tune “Black Nile” 1:12
The benefits of playing jazz tunes out-of-tempo 1:28
Beginning “Black Nile” slowly, to linger on each of Shorter’s rich harmonies 2:14
Establishing a medium swing tempo 2:24
Extending the melody right into the improvised solo 3:19
Improvising Wayne Shorter-like two-note groupings 3:39
Going in and out of the key 3:50
Quoting Dizzy Gillespie’s “A Night In Tunisia” 4:00
Soloing with block chords 4:09
Chromatic neighbor chords 4:21
Bebop soloing over rootless voicings 4:33
A fuller pianistic texture 4:45
Right hand soloing over a left hand walking bass line 4:56
Melodic development in the style of Wayne Shorter 5:04
A blues-scale lick 5:15
Quoting the Jerome Kern tune “Yesterdays” 5:31
Getting bluesier 5:43
Returning to the melody 5:54
An extended ending 6:26
The ending of Wayne Shorter’s recording of “Black Nile” 6:41


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[heavenlysoundzmusic]

Nice Job. I was looking for a piano version of this song and this gave me some ideas.

[willzang]

yeah man, killin !!!! love all your vidoes

[larrysaidman]

Why can't you solo over the verse? Such a great tune---including the verse. Are there any recordings where someone solos over the verse?