Blues For P.C. – Daryl Johns
This fun, swinging blues head was written by Daryl Johns at the age of 13. Daryl recorded it in an overdubbed 4-bass arrangement for our "Tribute To Paul Chambers" project. A score and parts for this arrangement are available, as well as Minus You melody parts for all instrumentalists to play with this unique multi-bass setting.
- Recording: Daryl Johns - Tribute to Paul Chambers - Daryl Johns: multiple basses
- Recorded on: June 20, 2010
- Label: jazzleadsheets.com (JLS 1002)
- Concert Key: F
- Vocal Range: , to
- Style: Swing (medium)
- Multiple Basses - Daryl Johns
Video
- Description
- Historical Notes
- Solos
- Piano Corner
- Bass Corner
- Drum Corner
- Guitar Corner
- Inside & Beyond
- Minus You
In Blues For P.C., Daryl Johns does a great job of capturing Paul Chambers' rhythmic feel as a bass soloist. It's a straight-ahead blues with a fun hard-bop sound. On the last two measures the changes ascend stepwise—not really a "turnaround"—ending abruptly on A♭7. Solos are on standard blues changes in F.
Our lead sheet shows detailed articulations. Daryl "lays back" part of the phrase in the seventh measure, indicated with forward arrows over the notes—a trademark of Paul Chambers' solo lines.
Blues For P.C. was recorded in an arrangement for four basses by Don Sickler, with Daryl overdubbing all the parts. The first bass has the melody, with rhythmic punctuations by the other basses. After the solos, there's a shout chorus of ensemble hits and melody breaks. This chorus is played four times, alternating between a chorus with written breaks (two basses at a time, in octaves) and a chorus with improvised solo breaks in the Bass 1 part. The score shows two choruses—one with written breaks and one with slashes for improvised breaks—repeated twice. In the parts, only one chorus is shown with all the written material and text indicating how the four repeats of that section are different.
This recording is also available in Minus You format; click on the second album cover for more details.
Our lead sheet shows detailed articulations. Daryl "lays back" part of the phrase in the seventh measure, indicated with forward arrows over the notes—a trademark of Paul Chambers' solo lines.
Blues For P.C. was recorded in an arrangement for four basses by Don Sickler, with Daryl overdubbing all the parts. The first bass has the melody, with rhythmic punctuations by the other basses. After the solos, there's a shout chorus of ensemble hits and melody breaks. This chorus is played four times, alternating between a chorus with written breaks (two basses at a time, in octaves) and a chorus with improvised solo breaks in the Bass 1 part. The score shows two choruses—one with written breaks and one with slashes for improvised breaks—repeated twice. In the parts, only one chorus is shown with all the written material and text indicating how the four repeats of that section are different.
This recording is also available in Minus You format; click on the second album cover for more details.
Check out more songs from "Tribute To Paul Chambers". Daryl Johns was only 13 at the time of this recording, but as you can hear he was already on a professional level in all elements of his playing and writing.
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- Recording: Don Sickler - Don & Daryl
- Recorded on: July 2, 2024
- Label: jazzleadsheets.com (JLS 1066)
- Concert Key: F, No key center
- Vocal Range: , to
- Style: Swing (medium)
- Trumpet - Don Sickler
- Multiple Basses - Daryl Johns
Video
- Description
- Historical Notes
- Solos
- Piano Corner
- Bass Corner
- Drum Corner
- Guitar Corner
- Inside & Beyond
- Minus You
Don Sickler's four-bass arrangement of Blues For P.C. is also available in a Minus You melody format—a unique opportunity for melody instrumentalists to play with an ensemble of only basses. On the head, the Bass 1 melody has been left in the track for the melody instrument to play with in unison or octaves. This is useful to stabilize the tempo as there are often long breaks between the accompanying chord hits. The four shout choruses have different melody parts:
-- 1st chorus: written fills in unison with the basses
-- 2nd chorus: a different chorus of written fills (alone)
-- 3rd chorus: a rhythmic melody with the ensemble chord hits
-- 4th chorus: improvised fills (alone)
Click on the Minus You tab for more details.
-- 1st chorus: written fills in unison with the basses
-- 2nd chorus: a different chorus of written fills (alone)
-- 3rd chorus: a rhythmic melody with the ensemble chord hits
-- 4th chorus: improvised fills (alone)
Click on the Minus You tab for more details.
Check out other Minus You tracks from "Don & Daryl" and "Tribute To Paul Chambers." Another F blues from this project is Paul's own song Whims Of Chambers.
MP3 Minus Melody track format (melody plays along with bass melody part; clip starts a few bars before solo section):
-- count off sets up the melody
-- play the melody unison with bass 2 times
-- solo 4 choruses over walking bass
-- play shout choruses 1, 2, and 3
-- solo in the breaks for shout chorus 4
-- play the out melody unison with bass 2 times
-- count off sets up the melody
-- play the melody unison with bass 2 times
-- solo 4 choruses over walking bass
-- play shout choruses 1, 2, and 3
-- solo in the breaks for shout chorus 4
-- play the out melody unison with bass 2 times
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Daryl Johns
born on July 3, 1996
Daryl Johns was born in the Bronx and began playing bass at age seven with encouragement from his father, drummer Steve Johns, and his mother, saxophonist Debbie Keefe. Johns has studied with Chip Jackson and Dave Santoro. He has attended the Jazz in July program, the Vermont Jazz Center, and the Litchfield Jazz Camp. Johns sits in regularly around the New York area with musicians including Joe Lovano, Dave Liebman, and Randy Brecker. He also performs throughout New York and New Jersey with a trio of his peers. Johns was featured on a Fox television segment called “12-Year-Old Jazz Prodigy." Read more...
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