Chords for Stefano Bollani - Joy In Spite Of Everything

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_ _ [D] _ _ _ I wanted to voice more [Eb] in this kind of music and _ one of my [A] biggest dreams in life was performing with Bill [G] Frizzell.
It brought the music thinking about [Ab] him because I'm a huge [C] fan of him since I was a kid.
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Bill is [Gm] not a guitar player for me but he's a complete musician so I'm really in love with all these projects he made.
[C] And I really love the way he's playing and performing music without [Gm] thinking about boundaries,
without thinking about genres, [Eb] kinds of music.
[D] He's [F] not playing jazz music, he's playing the music.
[C] And that's what I like.
This _ [Gm] attempt to [F] play always different [D] things each night and in each [D] record.
And then, [F] of course, I [Bb] love his [D] guitar sound.
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Fifth element is a [A] saxophone player and it's Mark Turner [Gb]
which I'm in love with because we played together with Enrico Rava
in [A] a project called New York Days.
I really [C] love his sound because it's very particular.
Because a lot of saxophone [Gm] players today, [A] they are _ [E] playing very [Db] well and they sound like somebody [C] else.
And [Fm] this Mr.
Somebody Else [G] usually is always between John [Fm] Coltrane or Michael Brecker or Sonny [D] Rollins or Ornette Coleman.
And Mark has a very special voice and a very [Fm] particular [G] and _ _ _ unique [Bb] voice on the instrument.
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_ [G] _ _ _ _ [Cm] I love to take my [Bb] inspiration from the [D] musicians I'm playing with.
In [Ab] this case, even if I never met Bill [F] and even if this is not a working [E] band,
so I [Bbm] can't really [D] know how [Gb] the sound of a band [Dm]
will be.
[G] In this case, I was [Bbm] thinking about [Gm] their sound, Bill [A] and Mark's [E] especially,
because [G] there's a way, especially in [A] Bill's playing, of using empty holes, [Eb] using the [C] silence [Ebm] in the music, which [G] inspired me.
[C] Because jazz music is [G] full of people [Ab] playing a lot of [Db] notes, cascades of notes, [Bb] _
[Em] arpeggios, scales and whatever you may [G] like.
And [C] Bill is special because he's always very careful to space.
So that's what I [D] was trying to do because [C] since I was a [G] kid, my very first jazz [D] teacher told me,
be careful because as [Ab] many jazz piano [Bbm] players, and especially in my case [Eb] because I was a fan of Oscar Peterson and Art [E] Tetum,
many jazz musicians get to be careful [Db] not filling all the [Bbm] blanks.
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that's why I'm in love with [Abm] people like Hammad [Cm] Jamal, for example,
because [C] he's very careful to [Eb] balance between the music and the silence.
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I met Jesper Mårten the [E] first time because of Enrico Rava, the trumpet player [A] I'm working with since 1996.
I like them both musically and personally, _ mostly because I think we have the same [Gbm] age, we listen to the same records,
[Gb] we grew up with the same kind of music, [C]
especially we grew up with the same idea of music.
So [Eb] music should be free, and [C] of course we do have structures, [G] we are full of structures,
but always in a [N] very spontaneous way and in a kind of empathic or telepathic [A] _ _ [Eb] communication.
So that's what I like about them.
_ And [D] of course I play with a lot of [Gbm] bass and [A] drum players,
but [Gb] _ playing with them [A] especially because [F] we don't need to talk so much about the music we [E] are playing.
And that's the kind of thing [Gb] I love [Gm] about jazz [Bb] musicians, you don't [Gbm] need to talk that much.
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_ [Gb] I [A] wrote the music specifically for this band, for [Db] Jesper Mårten, Bill Friesen and Mark Turner, thinking about [G] them.
I wanted those musicians [A] because actually I love to write music [N] knowing who's going to perform that,
as Duke Ellington was doing with [B] his orchestra.
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[Bm] _ _ _ _ _ [E] In this case I took all the [Bm] courage and I wrote everything.
So I wrote all the material and [Gb] it's totally brand new [Bm] stuff.
Maybe I played some two [E] or three tunes alone in a concert, [Em] but _ [Gm] it's totally new for me too.
And that's [A] what I like about jazz music, you just go [Bbm] and you see what happens.
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