What Is This Thing Called Love?
Barry’s early trio recorded What Is This Thing Called Love?. In the classes found it comes up only once, in passing, when he says the standard songs teach us.
- moments in class
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- recordings
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- Barry plays it
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What he teaches through it
In a Lincoln Center theory class Barry says European-trained musicians who had studied figured bass came to America and wrote pretty songs, which is why most standards are so correct and why the standard songs teach us. That is why we play them, he says, naming What Is This Thing Called Love in passing, before turning to who really wrote the standards.
Jazz theory, part 2: drop voicings0:342:152:46Jazz theory, part 2, with score2:41
In class
Every moment he works on it, with the ideas of the method it shows.
Jazz theory, part 2, with score
- 2:41
Lincoln Center class: the standard songs teach us; names this tune in passing.
Barry plays it
- Barry Harris - What Is Thing Called Love?2013, 4 min YouTube
In the method
The ideas of the method these moments show, and how many moments each.