Jim Hall on Autumn Leaves - Can it get any better?

To me Jim Hall is like the reluctant super hero of Jazz Guitar. In this video I am going to show you some of the ideas he uses on the song Autumn Leaves, both in terms of changing the chords, using poly rhythms and melodies. In my opinion this solo is an understated gold mine of musical ideas.
The devices that Jim Hall are things that you can incorporate into your playing and use to re-interpret the harmony of songs while you are playing them or add more rhythmical variation to your solos. In that way this solo is a really clear take on how you can do a lot with a very simple and famous jazz standard.
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[@JensLarsen]

This solo is from one of my favourite Jazz Guitar Albums. If you want to check out some of the others in my top 5 then you can do so here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/qJbamXuwoNdrgZY

[@jamesbarros950]

Jens Larsen this is great. I’ll go over each of these albums... On of the thing I’m fighting with in my approach to jazz is going from using other people’s transcriptions (like your wonderful and attainable “autumn leaves” which I love!) to being able to play the same songs in whatever key is called by anyone in a jam session. Any advice or a course on being able to do this work across keys for multiple songs would be really appreciated. Thanks :)

[@williamj1813]

What a great way to start my day here in Wisconsin! Coffee, Autumn leaves and Jim Hall...Thanks for sharing this Jens. Take care.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much! I am glad you found it useful! If you have any suggestions for a guitarist, topic or things you are looking for the feel free to let me know 👍

[@zoog152001]

i just started playing guitar a couple of months ago and your videos are amazingly helpful. i still barely understand but every day when i play and watch i understand a little bit more... thank you so much!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad to hear it! Keep at it :)

[@evinobrien]

Really beginning to appreciate Jim Hall's genius this past year. I transcribed his solo on Billie's Bounce from "Live in Tokyo." Very interesting how he reharmonizes a blues in a trio context. This video really offers greater insight in to what he might be thinking. thanks again!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you! I need to check out that album, I don't know it :)

[@DojoOfCool]

One of the most open minded guitarist ever, he'd played it all Bop to solo and duo free improv. Jim was a true Master.

[@JensLarsen]

He certainly was! 🙂

[@nicohauptmentalist]

I listened to the "glad to be unhappy" on a long train ride, and while the landscape rushed past me, I had several perfect moments - especially with regard to his comping and how he dives from there into solos and back again. every note is right, every idea is coherent, as if his solos were fully composed melodies. i have never heard or perceived that in this density, technical cleanliness (with montgomery the unclean intonation in fast runs always bothers me a lot) and creative inexhaustibility of ever and ever more bubbling ideas elsewhere (maybe it was partly due to the gliding along with the express train). anyway, you have to make more videos to and about jim hall. ;)

[@astrojazzman]

He was my pal.He signed my Vinyl RIP Jim Hall....

[@JensLarsen]

Great! He would have been 88 today right?

[@robertgannon2586]

This is The best, Jens Larsen video I’ve ever seen. Awesome work!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you 🙂 it is a great Jim Hall solo

[@krishkrush]

I'm looking for albums that are just guitar and bass duos, here's what I have so far. Anybody have any good ones to add? Epistrophy (Bill Frisell & Thomas Morgan) Beyond the Missouri Sky (Pat Metheny & Charlie Haden) Live from Montreal 1990 (Jim Hall & Charlie Haden) At The Garden Party (Ed Bickert & Don Thompson) Alone Together (Jim Hall & Ron Carter) Chops (Joe Pass & NHØP)

[@jumemowery9434]

Thanks Jens for another interesting and thought provoking lesson!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it Jume! 🙂

[@aussiechiro]

But why not just listen to who Jim himself said was "the best at what I do". Ed Bickert! And Ed said in an interview that Jim was not really into the altered chord grips that I was.

[@JensLarsen]

Is somebody saying not to do that?

[@jakemf1]

More like this a great tune solo and analysis

[@JensLarsen]

Sorry, I don't really follow 🙂

[@fynn1589]

Awesome...more Jim Hall! Thanks!

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it! Now let's see what I can come up with for the next time!

[@fynn1589]

I think in general the idea of polyrhythmns is something what is it really worth to checking out. So maybe you could go for some other examples.

[@JensLarsen]

Yeah. It's a great topic, but in the past whenever I made a videos on rhythms not many seemed interested 😁

[@fynn1589]

:D Thats interesting-rhythmn is king right? :) However the videos i watched about rhythmn were great! As far as I know( I didnt really checked this guy out) Jonathan Kreisberg uses much interesting polyrhythmns, so maybe someday a video of him.

[@JensLarsen]

In my practice routine and teaching it certainly is king, but for some reason it was never huge on KZbin. Always baffled me :) Everybody has interesting rhythms though, doesn't matter if it is GIlad, Kreisberg or Barney Kessel 😊

[@Shuzies]

Fun....this is Great....love how you think....Thank You

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Ron! 🙂👍

[@shauryasingh2702]

Thanks for the insight Jens, Can you do a video on Jazz guitar intros and outros for standards? in respect to harmony and theory involved.

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it! How about this one: kzbin.info/www/bejne/gmrQcpqHa7ukjtE

[@xl7131]

Hi Jens, would you be able to do a video on relatively unknown great jazz guitarist of the past to now?- and, can you do an evolution of jazz guitar playing highlighting different players who innovated playing styles, who influenced who and etc from past to now? Love your work!!

[@JensLarsen]

Thanks! Relatively unknown player? I am not sure why that would be useful to be honest :) The Evolution thing could be interesting to try some time, but I don't think I can do that yet. I need to be better at making videos to get that to work 🙂

[@xl7131]

Thanks for responding. I guess I meant, do you know of great jazz guitarists that more people should know about that aren't usually mentioned or popularized that you really like and more people should know more about, but if you feel there are not many, then that's okay too.

[@JensLarsen]

Ah ok! That makes sense! I will keep that in mind for sure! I do sort of have a candidate for that I guess 🙂

[@katana7xv]

Slim Gaillard and Tiny Grimes come to mind

[@jamesbarros950]

What parts of this I do not understand, I am inspired to learn because of this video. Thank you

[@JensLarsen]

Glad you like it James!

[@PIANOSTYLE100]

Very Interesting.

[@marcofarina9299]

Grande tutorial complimenti.

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you Marco! 😀

[@asifluger5429]

Great lesson Jens!

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you very much Asif🙂

[@bobrumpf2576]

Jens Larsen-thank you for this great lesson I am working on this tune and am having trouble with the licks that are using repeated notes-they don’t seem to be sweeps,I wonder if you have mastered them The first is based from a d flat 7 arpeggio with the notes g and b seemingly doubled -thank you

[@krishkrush]

I'm revisiting this lesson as my lockdown project for this week is to transcribe this whole tune (both bass and guitar parts, I play both). I'm struggling with the 3 chords Jim plays in the head (bars 22-23). I'm hearing F-Ab-Db-F for the first chord (1-#3-b13-1 of F7), Eb-Gb-Bb-Eb for the second chord (b7-b9-11-b7 of F7), and D-F-Bb-D for the third chord (3-5-1-3 of Bb Major). Is this correct? If I am correct, I think it's a brilliant way to harmonize the melody!

[@eternalrainbow-cj3iu]

Interesting insights Thank You very much, I also like the aibersold approach...and maybe mostly Chick Corea's reharmonising...

[@JensLarsen]

Chick Corea's reharmonization? Do you mean Ron Carter?

[@NumHeavymetallic]

Thank you for sharing! You discovered the hidden truth of His playing. Please share more ! Like Peter Bernstein ,Gilad Hekselman and etc ......

[@JensLarsen]

Thank you!I am glad you found it useful! 👍 I will get to Bernstein and Gilad for sure 🙂

[@icecreamforcrowhurst]

Sorry I didn't watch the vid because I already know the answer: no, it doesn't get any better. The whole 'Alone Together' album is a masterpiece. I often use the exact same description when hearing this album "it doesn't get any better than this".

[@JensLarsen]

You're certainly excused for not watching the video 👍😄

[@bacicinvatteneaca]

Hey Hey gaize Who's Bach's favourite guitarist? G Moll

[@JensLarsen]

Haha! Somewhat far fetched though! 🙂

[@DizzyKrissi]

Jens, I have a question. In one of your last videos I found the very useful application of the 7th mode of harmonic minor to play over diminished chords. Now I am looking for the correct name of this mode. The confusing thing is that many people call it "super locrian" while other people refer to "super locrian" being the 7th mode of melodic minor - which to me is the altered scale. What is the proper name??? (I've also seen mixolydian #1 just to be compared to the major modes which - imo is somewhat of misleading.

[@JensLarsen]

Well, it isn't super-locrian at least 😄 That is indeed melodic minor. I guess the best description would be Locrian bb7,b11? I don't really think in mode names so I don't have a name for it ready. In the end it doesn't really matter what you call it :)

[@DizzyKrissi]

lol - thanks for your thoughts :D - I'll invent a name for it :D

[@JensLarsen]

Let me know what you come up with! 😄 Locrian double flat 7, Überlocrian would be two of my best suggestions 🙂

[@georgeeldridge7954]

It’s Ultralocrian or super locrian bb7

[@rillloudmother]

I would say oh yeah that's a great Jim hall album, but I can't think of a Jim hall album that isn't great.

[@JensLarsen]

Just be a fanboy like me and say oh yeah! That's a GREAT Jim Hall album every time 😄

[@rillloudmother]

I do the same, but it is hard to understand how he was able to maintain such a high standard over such a long career. I saw him at birdland in 2011 and he was as good as ever. mind boggling...

[@JensLarsen]

I saw him in 2002 or 2003 and then he was not doing that well, but I think the trip to Europe was too much for him 🙂

[@hubertvancalenbergh9022]

Saw him in Ghent a couple of years ago. He did his best, but was clearly past his prime. You could see him shaking badly at times and he walked on stage using a walking stick.

[@rillloudmother]

Hubert Van Calenbergh I guess he had it easier taking a cab uptown than a plane across the pond.

[@thebomontellano4996]

I love you to death and your lessons. But Jim Hall to me was the most boring jazz guitarist ever. I know he was a chordal genius but guys like Joe Pass, Ron Echete and even George Benson are more interesting and exiting. Just my opinion.

[@JensLarsen]

Don't worry about it! You don't have to love all jazz guitarists

[@kaspafischer]

listen to Jim's work with Sonny Rollins on "The Bridge" LP... it's not boring I can assure you, bro... :)

[@travelingman9763]

Or with Art Farmer!

[@kaspafischer]

Traveling man Indeed!