DiJ 2022: I Found a New Baby - lesson (melodic interpretation)

We're getting ready for Django in June 2022 early this year, and we're going to be sharing
charts for classic jam tunes, and lessons every month leading up to the 2022 festival!
We're starting off our lesson series looking at 'I've Found a New Baby'.
In this lesson we will explore how to bring the melody of this tune to life,
by digging into three classic recordings:
Ethel Waters -1925 (warning: this recording is in C minor,
but I have transposed it to the more common "jamming" key of D minor for our lesson)
• Ethel Waters - I've Fo...
Frank "Big Boy" Goudie - 1935
(accompanied by Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli)
• Django Reinhardt & Fra...
Bireli Lagrene - Routes To Django - 1980
• Biréli Lagrène - I've...
download free lead sheet and support materials (pdf) here:
3a5e327e-05b9-...

[@JeffA-c9n]

This is great, I would love these for a many standards as you wanna do!

[@BucoBucolini]

These are great, Jack. The spark of Django is June is starting to shine again.

[@jamesonstewart6322]

Yeah man! That’s lovely

[@bwbillwilliamsbw]

Great having the historic examples linked.

[@AManCalledAidan]

Very nice breakdown and explanation, thank you!

[@JackSoref]

Thanks! Glad you like it.