Summertime, the great song by composer George Gershwin has been a favorite of jazz artists for decades. Many, Joe Pass, Miles Davis, Oscar Peterson and others all have their own 'treatment' of the song which often goes pretty far afield from the original Opera version.
What I would like to do is take this song, using the original Gershwin piano sheet music, and make it a guitar piece that follows this original version as close as possible. The first chord of the chorus is Am6, then, I have come up with this chord from just sounding out the notes to the piano version. Does anyone here know what this chord would be in the context of this song in Am. The sheet music calls for an E7 and maybe this is all that is needed to describe this chord.
TIA,
Ken