This Tuesday (or is it a Wednesday? I’m never sure) we shall take a trip back in time to the distant year of 1928, when a select group of musicians including clarinettist Omer Simeon gathered to record Jelly Roll Morton’s composition ‘Shreveport Stomp’. Shreveport, for anyone who doesn’t know, is a city in Louisiana. How’s …
Greetings all. As you may expect, I have another transcription for you today, and will be concluding my recent series of Barney Bigard’s favourite feature pieces with The Duke Ellington Orchestra (according to ‘Jazz: The Rough Guide’). ‘Across the Track Blues’ is pretty short and simple so didn’t take me long to work out at …
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. …
Good morning Planet Earth, and welcome to a little blog post I like to call ‘103 Performances I’ve Done In The Past 2.5 Months’. For those of you who don’t know, I’ve noticed that the best way to make people read something online is by putting a number in the title, so today I’ve decided …
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 …
Firstly, hello. Secondly, welcome to a brand new blog post, which on this unusual occasion makes no reference to Clarinet Marmalade whatsoever! Except that reference I’ve just made there… Oh dear. Thirdly, I hope you like my new style of title. Apparently these days people only read something if it has a number in the …
