Harlem Nocturne

[Randy Stein]

This is an arrangement of the American classic Harlem Nocturne. Written in 1939 by the very talented arranger/composer Earle Hagen. It was recorded and performed by most of the Big Bands.

I enjoy the sound of the concertina in the diminished and dissonant chording. As I told Guran, I usually use the strongest note pairs in a chording structure and add in what either is in the piano or guitar chart or what sounds correct for the concertina from "my ear". Harlem Nocturne has a lot of lush diminished chords and I purposely picked some of the over laying runs and notes to emphasize those patterns from the original piano score. I Seem to never play this tune the same way twice so I gave two intertwining versions.

 

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[m3838]

This is an arrangement of the American classic Harlem Nocturne. Written in 1939 by the very talented arranger/composer Earle Hagen. It was recorded and performed by most of the Big Bands.

I enjoy the sound of the concertina in the diminished and dissonant chording. As I told Guran, I usually use the strongest note pairs in a chording structure and add in what either is in the piano or guitar chart or what sounds correct for the concertina from "my ear". Harlem Nocturne has a lot of lush diminished chords and I purposely picked some of the over laying runs and notes to emphasize those patterns from the original piano score. I Seem to never play this tune the same way twice so I gave two intertwining versions.

 

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Sounds very interesting. The sound of recording is wavering though. Is it Youtube's "improvement"?

Hmm.

Now I want the score. I really need to sit down and work on that Gary Dahl "Harmony application course". The problem for me is that his book is written specifically for Piano keyboard. It's easily applicable to CBA (even easier), but EC presents some challenges. He often uses chords that go from, say, Gmin + 7, Gmin +6, Gmin +5 etc. Easy on the Piano, but left/right Concertina scale needs lots of mental gymnastics. On top of that my Jackie has missing accidentals and it's range is limited. But if I had extended range, than higher end is unpleasing and lower end is too slow, so that doesn't help either. All in all I need to sit down and learn more about harmony to make my own versions of written music. If I had time for it.

So I'm a beggar, anyone got a spare score for a poor guy like me?

[Dirge]

I loved it, especially when you got a bit settled in and tightened up on the rhythm a bit. And I agree on the chords too; jazzy edgy stuff sounds great, doesn't it? Thanks for that.