POST # 106 Bireli Lagrene on Playing the Changes

I know what kind of chord I’d expect to come when it is my turn to play a solo, so I can kind of figure it out. At the very moment, I think about the general chord. But you don’t think of it, because, once you know the tune, you don’t think about what is going to come. It’s a sort of automatisme. - Bireli Lagrene

( I think jazz standards are a little more complicated to internalize then other genre because of all the chord changes..but if you can do it with a 12 bar blues there is no reason you can't do the same with a standard, most standards are really only 16 bars (not counting the repeats! AABA) Bireli and company does the bop standard Donna Lee - Ed)