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

Set to 3/4 jazz waltz. In F Major with solos modulating to Ab Major.

My chord-melody arrangement for one of my favorite Monk tunes

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

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.

My arrangement of the classic Gershwin standard. In F, modulating to Ab, with Intro & Coda