Chords for Stanley Clarke Trio- Jazz In The Garden EPK Video

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_ _ _ _ _ I _
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[Cm] _ _ _ _ _ _ First met Stanley _ [Bb] about [C] three years ago in London.
I went to see his [Eb] band and
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I [C] never thought I
Could have a chance to play with him.
So it's just like a dream come true for me and
_ _ It's so improvisational, [G] you know, we come in studio.
We [F] talk we see [G] how we feel like [C] and
_ just really focus on what could come out from the person today and _
_ _ _ You know [Abm] having such a [G] conversation with [Cm] [C] jazz giants it's just
[Cm] Amazing [Bm] thing for me
[C] Sakura Sakura is
[Ab] one of the
[Cm] _ _ [Eb] probably most [C] well-known
[Eb] _ Japanese traditional [Cm] song and
_ [Bb] _ _ [C] The melody is so simple
[Cm] So that's why we can really put [C] different
Harmony and chords to it and it has such a freedom just like the cherry blossoms
when I played the song with Stanley and Lenny was I
_ _ Was very proud of my culture and I was very happy that you [Bb] know, this song is played [G] by _
legends [C] like that
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Stanley [Dm] was
18 19 years old.
I would have I had I was playing with Joe [G] Henderson and
[Dm] _ _ _ [F] I was
[A] 20 _ [Bb] and [F] I went to
_ [G] Reggie Johnson was playing bass and
[F] _ _ [D] _ So
Reggie's decided to go to California [F] to become a studio [Bb] musician
So we [Ab] needed a bass player.
So I went to slugs club in New York
[C] _ _ [F] Howard Silva was playing [Eb] _ [Dm] and I walked in and I [Ab] heard this guy [Bb] playing
_ [Ab] electric bass [Am] so came to the bar after and
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I introduced [Dm] myself and I said [Bb] Joe Henderson needs [E] a bass [Dm] player
_ [G] Here's his [Bb] number.
You should give him a call
_ [E] And he [Eb] called and [A] we've been [C] playing
_ [Bb] since [A] this was
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1971
[Am] _ _ Around [F] 1971 something like [Dm] that, you know, [Bm] I [Ab] grew up with him musically
_ _ _ _ [F] And he's become such an accomplished
[A] Musician, I mean he [Bbm] was always a [Bb] great bass player
_ [A] always phenomenal
[Gb] Talent [A] on the bass, [G] but he's become such a great musician
I mean like with all of the different things that he's been doing [Gb] and [Bb] and
_ _ [Bm] [D] It's Stanley Clark, [F] man
_ _ _ _ [D] _ this is my first [Ebm] time playing [Bb] with her running and
And [E] her playing, you know, [D] just a [G] piano and this really [C] great man.
I think this is a nice departure
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[E] from the other things [Ab] that I've heard and and
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[D] Pretty special [Am] I mean [Dm] and you know
The [G] fact that Stanley and I have played together [F] before kind of makes it an interesting [Dm] bed for her [Gm] to play on and
[E] I think it's pretty special.
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_ _ _ [A] I
Was actually [D] inspired to do an [F] acoustic record [Eb] this [Fm] time
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mainly because
_ [Cm] _ many people [A] that have
[Eb] Known me in the old [F] days knew that I started out [Cm] playing acoustic [F] bass.
I'm [Eb] actually really an acoustic [Ab] bass player
[Eb] Slash [D] electric bass player.
I got all my popularity.
[Eb] I would I'd like to say from the electric bass
I mean [F] this happens sometimes [Bb] the the business
[G] Doesn't necessarily [B] correlate with [D] what the real musician [A] is, you know, but you [D] know, I have a [C] tremendous love for acoustic [F] music
I mean when I [G] grew up that was the [C] music that I [C] really
you know was drawn [E] to
_ [G] _ [Eb] this this is a nice time to do a record like that [Am] because
One of [Gb] the things I like about [E] being
_ [G] _ [F] At this point in my life is I don't [D] particularly feel
_ [Eb] _ _ You know like I [Bb] have to [Eb] necessarily do [Dm] any one [Em] thing, [Dm] you know [Gb] and you know lately [G] in the last
Three [E] four years.
I've been doing a lot of acoustic playing [Eb] live playing [Em] with the right of [D] strings with
[Em] Demiola and John [Dm] Luponte [Em] and
And even in my own bands half of my set is acoustic.
[Gm] And so so this was [A] nice, you know, so I
you know, I've [D] always wanted to play with [Ebm] Hiromi and [A] I love playing [Gb] acoustic music and
[F] Jazz music particularly with Lenny White [C] because Lenny really [Gb] understands the language, [Gm] you know, it's one thing to play
[Cm] _ _ [Eb] Acoustic jazz music [E] because you have [Eb] the instrument that [Bm] sort of goes with [Cm] that
But but there's [G] another thing is actually understanding the [Eb] language which [F] requires
knowing [Eb] a little bit about the history so you [E] [F] kind of know what records to listen [Eb] to and and
Learn from when you're young and Lenny's Lenny's that guy
He's like [Bb] a like a history book on [G] jazz if you really [E] sit [Eb] down and [A] talk to him
So he has you know, he plays the [Gb] symbol the [Bb] right way
He has the [E] right symbol when he plays [G] with the brushes [C]
as far as [F] her own is concerned
I mean she has [C] all the right notes and [F] she plays [Eb] nice and you know
She's really like a team [A] player because [Eb] playing acoustic jazz is a [Gb] lot like [F] like being [D] on a basketball [F] team
It's a team playing in [A] order to [D] swing [F] You know
[Eb] Everybody has to swing, you know
[C] and it's and that's the [Eb] that's sort [A] of the
common [Db] denominator that runs [D] through all that music [Db] that where the clave is [G] where the
Swing is and then everything that else that [D] happens is it's just kind of gravy as they say, you know
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