This week on TTBOAW(BOAT), I bring you another of Barney Bigard’s showpieces with the Duke Ellington Orchestra, in the form of ‘Barney Goin’ Easy’! I’ve even worked out the chords and everything this time – see what you make of it: ‘Barney Goin’ Easy’, Barney Bigard
This week on TTBOAW(BOAT) we return to our old friend Mr. Bigard, to examine one of his showpieces with The Duke Ellington Orchestra. It’s only 73 bars long, but he certainly manages to pack plenty of notes into that space. Never before have I been so grateful for Audacity’s ‘Change Tempo’ feature! ‘Clarinet Lament’, …
It’s Transcription Tuesday, but it’s actually Wednesday, and that can only mean one thing: it’s time for Transcription Tuesday But On A Wednesday! This week I take you back to 1939, to listen to Artie Shaw and his orchestra performing that solid gold standard ‘Oh, Lady Be Good!’. Here are some interesting facts about Mr. …
Oh go on then, here’s another one… https://youtube.com/watch?v=SwGf1cKTbvE%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded ‘Clarinet Marmalade’, Jach Maheu
If Radio 3 is to be believed (and they’ve never lied to me yet), then yesterday marked exactly 80 years since Artie Shaw recorded his classic version of ‘Frenesi’, as orchestrated by William Grant Still. Which made my decision of what to transcribe this week a nice easy one. So here I present yet another …
It’s Tuesday, but it’s actually Wednesday (and by the time you read this it may even be Thursday or any other of the days)! That can mean several things, but in this context it means it’s time for another of my beautiful jazz transcriptions. This week I continue my enduring survey of great artists’ …
This week’s edition of TTBOAW(BOAT) sees me sticking with the undisputed greatest piece of art ever created, and taking a look/listen at/to a 1939 radio performance of Clarinet Marmalade, by Benny Goodman and his eponymous orchestra. As is often the case with big band arrangements, there’s not a huge amount of actual soloing in this. …
Today, dear readers, I would like to share with you a recent personal experience of mine that has affected me quite profoundly. It is with some trepidation that I share this, as I realise that to some it may seem at best naive, at worst bordering on the heretical. But I believe that to keep …
This is a blog post. This is a YouTube video: And this is a hyperlink to my transcription of the clarinet part from the above video: ‘Clarinet Marmalade’, Edmond Hall And this is a cow:
