Henry Grimes’ bass solo on “Theme For Ernie”, from McCoy Tyner’s 1962 album “Reaching Fourth”
Welcome to my Media Library where you will find audio, video and sheet music pertaining to most of my musical endeavors, including original compositions and arrangements, transcriptions, discography, instructional materials, and more.
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Music of Schoolhouse Rock
Highlights from the show
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Matt Hall’s Bebop Explosion
Highlights from the show
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SILENT NIGHT for Double Bass
Just in time for Christmas, here’s my solo bass chord-melody for Silent Night. I started working on this this December as a Charlie Haden/Hank Jones inspired arrangement. The key of G creates a lot of opportunities to use for open strings and harmonics, so I quickly realized I could find ways for the bass to
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Kat Shoemaker Trio, Vince Guaraldi tribute
Highlights from the show
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HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS
Set to 3/4 jazz waltz. In F Major with solos modulating to Ab Major.
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CREPUSCULE WITH NELLIE – Thelonious Monk
My chord-melody arrangement for one of my favorite Monk tunes
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RED CROSS – Christian McBride’s solo bass performance, Part 1
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SOPHISTICATED LADY – Duke Ellington
My solo bass arrangement of Sophisticated Lady in Ab. At first, I just set out to become very comfortable with the melody. But as a bass player, I like to hear the context of the melody note against the root note. As I kept wanting to add more accompaniment, I revisited and explored new solo
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Animal Energy
5/4, Straight, Med Up, 180 bpm, intro, coda
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GIRL BLUE – Stevie Wonder
A beautiful song by Stevie Wonder arranged here for instrumental jazz quartet. I kept the original melody and chords, but the sections are slightly re-ordered and a solo section has been added.
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SOFTLY, AS IN A MORNING SUNRISE – Dianne Reeves arrangement
A very dark & stormy arrangement of a beloved standard, set in G minor.
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BROWNIE SPEAKS – Larry Grenadier’s Bass Solo
Larry Grenadier’s bass solo on Brown Speaks, from the Brad Mehldau Trio album “Where Do You Start”, 2012.
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PRETTY EYES – Horace Silver
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GREASE PIECE – Horace Silver
In preparation for an upcoming Horace Silver tribute, there were inevitably a few “pieces of silver” I couldn’t find charts for. So this small batch of his compositions, and many others, will be performed at the show.
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STICKY MACK – Larry Goldings
Pretty random pick in the grand scheme of things, but I’ve loved this Larry Goldings album “Awareness” for a long time, featuring Larry Grenadier and Paul Motian. They sure do a lot with this short 7-1/2 bar piece. It’s a very playful earworm of a tune that reminds me of a mixture of Bill Evans
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AU PRIVAVE – Ray Brown’s Bass Solo
Ray Brown’s bass solo on Au Privave (Blues in F), from the 1960 album “Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners”.
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Matt Hall’s Bebop Explosion
Highlights from the show
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Oh Berkley Where Hart Thou
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Pleiades
7/4, Swing, Fast, 260 bpm, drum feature, intro, coda