Brad Mehldau’s arrangement of the Clifford Brown tune Brownie Speaks. He puts it in A minor, down a half-step from the original.

4/4, Swing, Up Tempo, 200, rhythmic hits, optional vamp section, intro, coda

Transcription of Vinnie Burke’s bass solo on “Taking A Chance on Love” by Vernon Duke, as it appears on the 1957 album “The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow”

A great old standard by Vernon Duke, arranged by Tal Farlow for his 1957 album “The Swinging Guitar of Tal Farlow,” and featuring pianist Eddie Costa & bassist Vinnie Burke.

3/4, Swing, Walking Ballad, 94 bpm, Bluesy Soul, optional vamp section

Hairy indeed, here’s Chick’s super subbed-out 12 bar blues. He uses all dominant chords with either Whole-Tone or Altered Dom colors. This album Three Quartets was one of my earliest favorites from when I was just getting into jazz.

Another favorite tune from Lee Morgan’s 1966 album Delightfulee. This track features Joe Henderson, McCoy Tyner, Bob Cranshaw and Billy Higgins. I love the ratio of unison to harmony in the Trumpet/Tenor lines.

This tune popped into my head the other day, having not listened to it for years. It’s on the big band portion of Lee Morgan’s 1966 album Delightfulee, and for some reason I was misremembering this tune having that title, as well. By the way, the band rushes this track pretty noticeably, but so what!

Ahmad Jamal’s “Awakening” remains one of my all-time favorite albums. I have always appreciated his imaginative reinvention of this tune. My intention here was to fit Jamal’s interpretation onto a one-page, easy-to-read leadsheet.

Transcribed from Ray Brown’s “Walk On” album- his last live trio date, January 2000, featuring Geoffrey Keezer and Karriem Riggins.

A rather haunting song I thought would make a nice instrumental jazz slow waltz.

Great jazz standard by Vincent Youmans. Reharmonized by Joe Henderson for his 1967 album the Kicker. Another fantastic version appears on his 1996 Big Band album.

I pulled this off of the Art Blakey album Mosaic, after realizing just how inaccurate the Jazz LTD chart is & how weird it sounds in C minor rather than the original B minor. In the interest of space, I didn’t include the intro / bass ostinato. I wanted this chart to show the entire

From the Donald Byrd album Free Form, featuring Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Butch Warren and Billy Higgins. I’m not positive this is a Herbie Hancock tune – it may well have been written by Donald Byrd, or Wayne Shorter, or some other genius.

Here is one of the few known tunes from the underrated tenor saxophonist Harold Land. I transcribed the version that can be heard on Brown & Roach: Study in Brown. The only difference is that I give the original melody to the trumpet, while adding a 2nd line for tenor saxophone. The original arrangement was

At least I think it’s written by Gigi Gryce… Nah, it is. Although it’s sometimes mistakenly credited to Quincy Jones, there are some similarities in hipness with such Quincy tunes as Jessica’s Birthday. I transcribed this from the Clifford Brown Memorial Album, featuring Harold Land & Gigi Gryce. My purpose was to bring this arrangement

This arrangement is found on Tom Harrell’s album Passages. On the recording, the 2nd horn is alto saxophone, but I’ve transposed it to tenor saxophone to be played with John Reynolds Quintet.