'I Cover The Waterfront' - Solo Jazz Guitar

Composed by Johnny Green in 1933, this song has been a source of inspiration through the last 2 years in which I've experienced some of the worst health of my life. Going through this hard time has deepened my relationship with music even more so. What I lack in physical freedom, I find in musical expression. These beautiful old songs have reshaped my thinking about playing and arranging. I now try to create movement in whatever I’m playing, to have little melodies inside the chords themselves, pulling and leading to the next harmonic step in the song.

My arrangement for Solo Jazz Guitar pays homage to great Jazz arrangers such as Nelson Riddle, Gordon Jenkins, Duke Ellington, any many others. Working out how to reproduce the movements I heard in the strings and the counterpoint of the horns has captured my imagination and I'm excited to share more arrangements of Jazz Standards and old tunes in this style with you. I have also been inspired by the legendary 'Virtuoso' albums of Joe Pass for the way he would freely navigate a tune, exploring the harmony rubato, then launching into faster tempos.

I first heard this song just last year on the 1957 Frank Sinatra album ‘Where Are You?’. Without exaggeration, that album has changed my life! Not just Frank’s voice, but the sublime orchestral arrangements by Gordon Jenkins. The strings pull at you like undercurrents, leading you further out to sea. Then the dense fog parts, the steady horns signal that some formerly obscure shape or presence has come into view, but the journey never seems to fully resolve. I hope you enjoy my arrangement of this timeless song.

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