Looking forward to this one. 7:30pm this coming Sunday (14th May). A chance to air out some of my originals as well as some classics which don’t always get performed. Myself and Ayo Akintonwa on guitars, Ben Treacher on alto, Martin Young – bass, John Park – drums. Joining us for several numbers in each set will be the young and talented singer Samantha Grefsheim.
Over the last few weeks I’ve been listening to a lot of Jim Hall. I’ve just added a Jim Hall page to the website’s motley collection of transcriptions. It contains an excerpt from his solo on the standard Here’s That Rainy Day. There’s now also a Herb Ellis page, with a transcription of Ellis’s solo over the bridge of My Old Flame.
I’ve added a Joe Pass page to the website’s collection of transcriptions. So far it contains a transcription I’ve made of his solo on the Jobim tune Wave from the album called The Big 3 he made with Milt Jackson and Ray Brown. Apart from the musical pedigree on display, Pass’s pot belly, featured on the album cover, shows that he was doing his bit to add credence to the albums title.
Recently I’ve been adding a number of new pages to the site’s jazz guitar transcriptions page. It now includes pages dedicated to the following guitarists: Barney Kessel, Gabor Szabo, Grant Green, Kenny Burrell, Peter Bernstein, Wes Montgomery, and the relatively obscure John Collins. These pages might expand in the future, and new pages for other guitarists may also be created. I hope that the material included may be of some use to other players.
Alex Corlett 