From the album Jim Hall & Basses. This track features Christian McBride playing the head.

Henry Grimes’ bass solo on “Theme For Ernie”, from McCoy Tyner’s 1962 album “Reaching Fourth”

A very dark & stormy arrangement of a beloved standard, set in G minor.

Larry Grenadier’s bass solo on Brown Speaks, from the Brad Mehldau Trio album “Where Do You Start”, 2012.

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.

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

Ray Brown’s bass solo on Au Privave (Blues in F), from the 1960 album “Cannonball Adderley and the Poll-Winners”.

Just a nice clean leadsheet for this awesome Monk tune.

Leadsheet for Freddie Hubbard’s arrangement from his 1970 album Red Clay

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

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.

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.