Check out these Jazz lesson pages (links below)!  Jazz, as you may well know, is a style that originated in the New Orleans, LA, USA area that uses improvisation as its main feature.  In general, Jazz musicians play the melody (or “head”) once while the backing instruments accompany them, then that same accompaniment continues as the “soloists” take turns improvising new melodies over the top before coming back together at the end for one last play through of the melody.  Variations on this idea are endless, and the song forms are also sometimes made up on the spot, but the head-solos-head sandwich format is the most common in Jazz by far, and has even influenced other styles, like the new “alternative fiddling” that I’ve been hearing that last 10+ years now, where fiddlers will play an old tune, then jam over it before playing the tune together at the end again… just like Jazz!

Gypsy Jazz is an off-shoot of Jazz that came out of Paris France in the 1930’s & 40’s.  Lore says that Django Reinhardt and his musical partner, violinist Stephane Grappelli were just trying to copy the American Louis Armstrong records they heard.  We have a separate section for Gypsy Jazz here.

Jazz Lessons:
All of Me
Autumn Leaves
Babik – gypsy BeBop
“Bone Bossa” – bossa nova jazz tune lesson
It Don’t mean a Thing (if it ain’t got that swing) – famous jazz song
“It’s Time to Go” jazz tune with bossa nova/swing mix
The Joy of Awareness – Bossa Nova style jazz
Sweet Georgia Brown
Weeblo’s Wobble

I hope you enjoy and learn from these.  There are many more to come!

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Here’s an auto-generated list of every lesson we have that has the “Jazz” category assigned to it.  These will include not only the esson that are directly about Jazz tunes, but also Gypsy Jazz and any Jam lesson that has a Jazz-y style.

• Descending ii V I chord pattern ala Cherokee bridge
• FREE Jazz Violin 100 Video series Playlist on YouTube!
• Truck Talk – Is Jazz Hard?
• Gypsy Tears with Jason Schuster at Heartwood Soundstage again.
• Playing Electric Violin with Distortion
• Babik Sweet Sustenance performances
• Babik’s Minor Swing Arrangement
• Newsletter Late August 2016
• Gamalon Billy’s Saloon Footage from 1988
• Moonlight Drive Jam Track
• Beethoven’s Oven
• iFiddle Blues Scale Magic
• Rhythm Futur
• Cool Grapelli ii-V Trick
• MM101-Blue Suit in a ROADHOUSE BAR of 12
• MM101-Chromatic exercises and lines
• Circle of Fifths Loop Track
• Taking it Outside in Jazz
• iFiddle 2 – Scales, Arpeggios & Practice
• Music Mechanics – Learning Path
• Artist Level Learning Path
• Classical Cross-Over – Learning Path
• V7b9 Chord Substitution
• Bluegrass – Section
• Jazz Lessons
• Lesson Lists By Style
• Chromatic exercises and lines
• My Path Suggested Learning Studies
• Improv Any Style – Using 3 Unique Approaches! (overview)
• Rhythm Changes – the standard of Jazz
• Fake Books – what are they?
• Second Octave Intervals – 9ths, 11ths &13ths
• Nice Autumn Leaves lesson additions finished!
• Country Music Lesson Section
• By Style – FJI learning
• New entry-level Jazz tune lesson – Autumn Leaves!
• Autumn Leaves – Jazz Standard
• Red Haired Boy
• The Joy of Awareness – G.F. Perry tune
• Weeblo’s Wooble jazz tune
• Jazz Section – link page
• Juke Gypsy – G.F. Perry tune
• Bone Bossa by G. F. Perry
• It’s Time to Go jazz tune by G. F. Perry
• iii7 – vi7 – ii7 – V7 – I Progression Studies
• III7-VI7-II7-V7-I Exercises
• Mr. Sandman
• My Blue Heaven
• Hungaria
• Limehouse Blues
• Stompin’ at Decca
• Melodie Au Crepuscule
• I’ll See You In My Dreams
• Babik
• Bossa Dorado
• Django’s Castle
• Daphne
• Douce Ambiance
• Noto Swing
• Swing De Paris
• Bellville
• Sheik of Araby
• Swing Gitan
• Coquette
• Micro
• Undecided
• Nuages – famed Django ballad
• All of Me
• LeLuppe Bonzino – Gypsy Tune
• Sweet Sustenance – Gypsy Tune
• Fully Diminished 7th Studies
• Sweet Georgia Brown
• Styles Page
• It Don’t Mean a Thing (if it ain’t got that swing)
• Gypsy Jazz – Section
• Gypsy Sound – Anatomy
• A-toodz – A minor
• THE MAJOR SCALE SECTION
• THE A BLUES COMBINATION “EZ-ZONE” SECTION
• The 0, L2, 3 SECTION
• LOW 2 BOOGIE WOOGIE BLUES
• LOW 2 BOOGIE WOOGIE PATTERNS
• The Perils of the Classical-only Music Education
• Fancy Boogie Woogie Blues – Shuffle
• FANCY B.W. BLUES
• BASIC B.W. BLUES
• Shuffle Rhythm
• BOOGIE WOOGIE PATTERNS
• BOOGIE WOOGIE SECTION
• A-toodz – E Minor
• Minor Swing
• A-Toodz Section Contents
• Bouncy Blues
• E Funki
• G Swing
• Blue Suit in a ROADHOUSE BAR of 12
• Irish Seaman
• B. Gone
• A. Potter’s Wheel
• Raven’s Daughter