Tony is correct.....the problem is that some of you are missing his point. Sure you can improvise, reharmonize, and do all sorts of things to a tune, BUT, it still is done from a base structure, a defined guideline, whatever. Get so far away from that base that it is no longer recognizable and it's no longer THAT song. It may have been INSPIRED by that song, but it's no longer that song.

Donny complains about his OP going 'south' but loves the high post count which results from it. Makes it seem like a post is more interesting than it really is. For a day and a half there was 0 or 1 response to the OP causing him to question whether there were any Organ Bossa style fans; apparently not a lot. Wow, I can't believe I stayed up this late for a pre-season game...must be starving for some football.

chas

Nitey nite Chas.

Good night guys.... 3am

5:30 am. I’m too old for this sh#@!
JM

Just going to bed or getting up ?!?

I am pretty sure we went south on this one.

You can "Blame it on the Bossa Nova"

Jerryghr

My opinion:
Tony, we are coming from different places. I do respect your opinion, and I am going to do my best to explain mine.

As a guitar player I was interested in chords structure and reharmonizing songs. I studied with Joe Monk, he was the music instructor in a New York City music school. I told him that I was interested in moving chords, he smiled at the term I used, he said let’s get started. The song was Twinkle Twinkle Little Star. When we were done Twinkle Twinkle Little Star was filled with many added chords, it was now a jazz tune. After three years of taking lessons I learned how to make a song sound different, more to my taste.

Misty Errol Garner example:
If you purchase a book of Errol Garner songs you will find simple type of chords. If you purchase a book with his original solo you will not find the same type of chords. He is not using the simple chords, in fact he also adds a few bars of a different song and returns. This is the part of Errol Garner that people love, he is different, he is Errol Garner, and sounds like Errol Garden.
There lies my belief. So Tony, both of our beliefs are correct, just different.

John C.
PS, I have posted this thought and offered to share what I know on, no one showed any interest. ???????

John, I totally agree with what you are saying about improvising by means of chord substitution, adding chords, adding 'quotes' from other songs etc., in fact, my accordion teacher would do the same thing when teaching beginners simple songs just to show what could be done ...
BUT, to me, those 'different' chords are still the 'correct' chords in that they follow a certain structure ...
Perhaps we are just hung up on semantics ...

Just going to bed. You can blame me...I live about as far South as you can get