Sad Walk - Bob Zieff

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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'
 
Xspatau said:
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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Ye.. Me too , please share
 
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!
 
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
 
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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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pdxdjazz said:
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
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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
 
Sad Walk - Bob Zieff

This is the arrangement direct from Bob -- in a few places, I added a little color, where the chart Bob sent had a straight Ab major chord, but these should be the "correct" changes as played on the 1955 Chet Baker recording and also the one by Dick Wetmore. Here's a video I recorded at home, with "Chet," the bass trumpet, dubbed over the audio from iReal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwco5oP8tLs
 
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Thank you Urbie for taking the time an effort to bring us the original chords right from the source! I'm sorry I didn't write earlier. I did not follow the thread any more after some time has passed.
 
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