Coming up on Transcription Tuesday But On A Wednesday (But On A Thursday)… This! I have a confession to make today that I hope will not upset the general population of Planet Earth too dramatically. The truth is, in recent weeks my enthusiasm for Transcription Tuesday But On A Wednesday has begun to wane somewhat, …
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. …
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 …
I’ve been away on my travels a lot this past week (more of that in due course…) so haven’t been able to sit down with a computerer for my latest transcription. As a result I’ve gone old-school, writing it all out with pencil and manuscript paper like what they used to do in the old …
It’s been rather a while since my last update, so this is going to be something of a retrospective of the past month and a summary of all the wild things I’ve been up to. Just so you know I’ve been keeping busy. December got off to a roaring start, with a trip over to …
