Ronnie Cuber passed away a year ago. So its a nice little tribute to be able to add a new solo transcription of one of his classic solos over a blues. This one is Benny’s Back from George Benson’s Cookbook album. A great album featuring a young and fiery Ronnie Cuber. To my ear he’s really channeling a lot of Leo Parker here.
Head on over to the Transcriptions page to download and have a play through yourself.
Thank you to Tom Sabin for sending in a new transcription on a Jason Marshall Solo!
This one is on “Never Stop Loving You” from Jason’s recent release, New Beginnings.
Checkout the song below, and head over to the Transcriptions page to grab a copy!
I’m sure you all have heard about the passing of the great Ronnie Cuber. Ronnie once told me in a lesson that he couldn’t listen to Leo Parker anymore because he would copy it so much! Incidentally the great baritonists, Jason Marshall and Frank Basile will be playing two nights this weekend to celebrate Ronnie Cuber at Cafe Bohemia in NYC – Friday and Saturday I believe. Both Jason and Frank are huge fans of Leo Parker and Frank has done quite a bit of work documenting all Leo Parker recordings.
In other Leo news, Leo P (not to be confused with the aforementioned Leo Parker) has won the 87th annual DownBeat Magazine Readers’ poll. I’m sure this will grind some people’s gears as Leo P doesn’t play strictly jazz and attracts a young following as much from his outfits, hair , and dancing as he does for his playing. I personally find his music a bit monotonous, but I am thrilled that a lot of young people find interest in acoustic music and instruments through him. Leo P is a fine baritonist and actually should get credit for incorporating some extended techniques into his playing in a very approachable way. Also we can hope that anyone that gets interested in the baritone through him will also branch out to other realms of the baritone and further inspiration found therein. So congratulations to Leo P, anyone hearing him for the first time should also definitely check out his main inspiration, the late great, Ronnie Cuber.
Continuing with the recent theme of Pepper Adams (appropriate since his birthday was recently) there are two new transcriptions in the repository thanks to Noah Pettibon! More Pepper Adams news coming soon too.
The first is on the classic Monk blues “Straight, No Chaser” from a live TV broadcast in Sweden, and the second is from the great album “Jazzmen Detroit”. Enjoy them both below!
Thanks to Martin Schaefer, the 25th Pepper Adams transcription has been posted to the transcriptions page. This time on the song “Unforgettable” from the album Pepper Adams Quintet.
Head on over to get a copy for yourself. Or have a listen below.
Thank you to Tom Sabin for sending in a Gary Smulyan transcription on the standard “You Go To My Head”. This is from The Lure of Beauty – which is actually Gary’s first album as a leader, released 30 years ago in 1991. Its a lovely album, and a very nice solo.
Hear it below, and head to the transcriptions page to download a copy for your self!
We have posted our first Jason Marshall solo transcription to the repository! Thanks to Itay Raiten for sending this one in. Its on the song “Downtown Bernini” from Jason’s organ trio album, Sign The Book.
Head over to the transcriptions page to grab a copy for yourself.
Thanks to Jacob Tracy we now have two Brian Landrus
There’s a Youtube video of the transcription as well, see below.
In other news, fantastic baritonist, record collector, and jazz scholar Frank Basile recently participated in a very interesting radio show. Its a show that features music found on 78 records. For you young ones out there, that’s not 1978, that 78 rpm vinyl shellac records (thank you for the correction, Frank) that were used mostly in the first half of the 20th century. Frank brought in and discussed a number of excellent Be-Bop era records. To listen to the show head over to the Hot Club of New York website and scroll down to “Frank Basile”.
Thank you again to Noah Pettibon! We have a new Pepper Adams transcription on the Transcriptions Page. This time on the Thelonious Monk composition, “Played Twice”. Head on over and check it out.
