Bluesette
Added 2021-05-15 16:30:59 +0000 UTCFor this jazz episode we have a transcription of the famous Toots Thielemans's masterpiece Bluesette. Toots Thielemans was best known as a harmonica player, but he was also an excellent guitar player, whistler and composer. He recorded Bluesette in 1961 and dedicated it to his colleague, a violin player, Stéphane Grappelli. (He said in an interview that he had been inspired by him to make this composition).
Bluesette is a very interesting song in so many ways. It is a 12 bar blues form played in 6/8. I wrote this transcription in fast 3/4 so the form looks like it has 24 bars. But when you look at the harmony, that traditional blues harmony is actually heavily covered by many chord substitutions so you can only get a hint of blues on the first bar and 5th bar (Bb and Eb). There are so many ii-V and ii-V-I progressions and great examples of the lines you could play over them in 3/4. Looks like a mini ii-V encyclopedia.
