A birthday tribute to Daryl Johns
Earlier this month, we celebrated the 29th birthday of bassist Daryl Johns. We’ve featured Daryl on a number of exclusive jazzleadsheets.com projects while he was still in his teens, which showcase his virtuosic playing even at a very young age. This month, we have added more songs from our “Tribute To Paul Chambers” project featuring Daryl, 13 years old at the time, playing overdubbed multiple bass arrangements by Don Sickler. Besides the Paul Chambers compositions Beauteous, The Hand Of Love, Dear Ann, and Tale Of The Fingers, we are also now featuring Daryl as a composer with his own Blues For P.C. All of these are available as full scores and parts for multiple basses (4 basses for most of them except Dear Ann and Tale Of The Fingers which are for 5 basses).
Our “Don & Daryl” project adds Don Sickler overdubbed on trumpet or flugelhorn over the same multiple bass tracks, and presents them in Minus You format for any melody instrument. Also check out our videos of Don performing these arrangements of Dear Ann and Tale Of The Fingers in 2012, with a quartet of bassists who were studying at Columbia University at the time. This was part of a concert celebrating Don’s 25th anniversary of teaching at Columbia.
One more recently added song we recorded with Daryl is O.P. Meets L.T. This Lucky Thompson/Oscar Pettiford collaboration completes not only our collection of Lucky’s songs from his two “Featuring Oscar Pettiford” vol. 1 and vol. 2 albums, but also our own “Don Sickler Quartet Featuring Daryl Johns” project. The latter version, also recorded when Daryl was 13, also has Minus You tracks for all instruments. Parts are available for both Lucky’s trio arrangement (tenor sax, guitar, bass) and our quartet arrangement (trumpet, piano, bass, drums).