Jamie - Donald Byrd (Request)

[bertisg]

Hi - if anyone is interested, I’d like some help finishing a chart for Donald Byrd’s lovely short tune 'Jamie' from the album 'Ethiopian Nights'.

Here is a link to the song: https://youtu.be/PvHQGXdvbDc?si=GQZ2QKzF52GqZlo8

And here is the beginning of my chart - I have the intro chords but I’d like some help from 0:27 where it starts building to Donald’s entrance (at 0:52).

Jamie - Donald Byrd

Thanks!

[engelbach]

I suggest that you go to Chordify.

https://chordify.net/chords/donald-b...s/jamie-chords

You can open a free account there that entitles you to research three tunes a day.

Cheers,
Jer

[bertisg]

Cheers, Jerry.

I started with Chordify but I found a number of their chord choices wrong.

Also, I'm overthinking it - I'm going to give my ears a bit of a rest and it will be simpler than I thought when I get back to it, no doubt!

[engelbach]

Cheers, Jerry.

I started with Chordify but I found a number of their chord choices wrong.

Also, I'm overthinking it - I'm going to give my ears a bit of a rest and it will be simpler than I thought when I get back to it, no doubt!

bertisg,

My view is that unless one has to pass some kind of a test, it's unimportant if the chords differ a smidgen from the original, as long as they work.

"Street changes" that depart from the composers' originals are common in jazz.

Cheers,
Jer