SINGING THE SONGBOOK
1. My Blue Heaven
KEY C, CAPO 3 RD FRET
This opening track on American Standard begins with a separate verse, a typical songwriting device of that time that we seem to have lost…
“It was the way the song was introduced into the action of a musical, or a little way of setting it up. A bit of conversation that’s not yet the body of the song.They’re great; some of them are really smart. It basically sets the stage a little bit.A number of the songs that I play, I go from the swung thing to a straight eight thing, and it’s the straight eight that sounds like Latin. We actually brought in Luis Conte on percussion to make that clear.”
2. Moon River
(KEY B b , CAPO 1ST FRET)
James hasn’t exactly reharmonised this, but there are some interesting things going on – he seems to have twisted it a little bit.There’s a Stevie Wonderesque solo that sounds like a
