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THE JAZZ SIPPER

Acknowledgments

Thanks to my Mom for her dedication in editing this book for me along with
my wife Joyce. Thanks to my street team Booths on The Ground. Thanks to
all, that has inspired me to pursue my goal in writing this book. Thanks to the
publisher, the distributors, the bookstores, and most of all you guys the buyers
of my novel, thanks, thanks, and more thanks. Also I would like to thank those
who develop the Jazz Standards that some of my chapter titles were name
after.

According to Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, a Jazz Standard is a jazz
tune that is held in continuing esteem and which is widely known, performed,
and recorded among jazz musicians as part of the jazz musical repertoire.
There is no definitive list of jazz standards, and the list of songs deemed to
be "jazz standards" changes over time. Moreover, there are different jazz
standards for the different musical styles and sub genres that make up jazz,
such as swing, bebop, and fusion. In many cases, songs that have become
jazz standards were not originally composed by a jazz musician. Instead, they
were used as the foundation for jazz arrangements; standards were not
reharmonization, or improvisation by jazz performers or composers.

Many jazz standards have a long history, and they are based on old popular
tunes, Broadway or musical selections, or old recordings of famous bands
from the Great American Songbook. In some cases, the version of a song that
becomes a jazz standard is a reharmonized or an altered version of the
original song. Jazz musicians also include a wide range of 1950s and 1960s
Bebop and Hard Bop tunes in their standards. The development of a