Hand Of Love – Paul Chambers
A charming Latin song with a classic hard-bop sound. Transcriptions are available for Paul Chambers' bass lines and solo—a great chance to explore his style in detail. Plus, Don Sickler's 4-Bass arrangement, with melodies played by Bass (Daryl Johns) and trumpet (Don Sickler): a Minus You edition!
- Recording: Paul Chambers - Paul Chambers Quintet
- Recorded on: May 19, 1957
- Label: Blue Note (BLP 1564)
- Concert Key: G
- Style: Latin (medium)
- Trumpet - Donald Byrd
- Tenor Sax - Clifford Jordan
- Piano - Tommy Flanagan
- Bass - Paul Chambers
- Drums - Elvin Jones
Charming and lyrical, The Hand Of Love is a Paul Chambers classic. It's related melodically and harmonically to Beauteous, Paul's other composition from this album; the changes of feel are the opposite, with Latin on the A sections and swing on the bridge. The solos swing throughout.
This song is available as a bass line transcription, and we also have a transcription of Paul Chambers' solo; click on Solos and Bass Corner for more details. For lead sheets, click on Don Sickler's Minus You edition.
The complete combo arrangement for quintet is also available as a Second Floor Music publication from various online music dealers, including Hal Leonard. It features a Full Score; 1st parts Trumpet, Alto Sax, C treble clef; 2nd parts Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax, Trombone; rhythm section Piano, Bass, Drums.
This song is available as a bass line transcription, and we also have a transcription of Paul Chambers' solo; click on Solos and Bass Corner for more details. For lead sheets, click on Don Sickler's Minus You edition.
The complete combo arrangement for quintet is also available as a Second Floor Music publication from various online music dealers, including Hal Leonard. It features a Full Score; 1st parts Trumpet, Alto Sax, C treble clef; 2nd parts Tenor Sax, Baritone Sax, Trombone; rhythm section Piano, Bass, Drums.
Paul Chambers' third album as the sole leader, "Paul Chambers Quintet" is also the second recording of Clifford Jordan, two months after Clifford's debut "Blowing In From Chicago" co-led with John Gilmore.
The rhythm section of Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, and Elvin Jones also recorded together twice in 1959: on Curtis Fuller's "Sliding Easy" and Thad Jones' "Motor City Scene." Other recordings with Paul and Elvin together include two large ensemble classics: Miles Davis' "Sketches Of Spain" and John Coltrane's "Africa/Brass."
The rhythm section of Tommy Flanagan, Paul Chambers, and Elvin Jones also recorded together twice in 1959: on Curtis Fuller's "Sliding Easy" and Thad Jones' "Motor City Scene." Other recordings with Paul and Elvin together include two large ensemble classics: Miles Davis' "Sketches Of Spain" and John Coltrane's "Africa/Brass."
CLIP A transcription is available for Paul Chambers' one-chorus solo. He begins his solo based on the melody, and continues his signature melodic style throughout. Every idea is just as clear as any horn soloist.
For the bass line transcription click on Bass Corner.
For the bass line transcription click on Bass Corner.
CLIP As with Beauteous, from the same album, we have a transcription showing all of Paul Chambers' bass lines on this recording. It includes the vamp intro, in and out heads and his walking for solos by Tommy Flanagan, Clifford Jordan and Donald Byrd. The in melody is cued on a smaller staff above the bass staff. Notable fingerings are included. These transcriptions are a great resource to study bass lines.
- Recording: Daryl Johns - Tribute to Paul Chambers - Daryl Johns: multiple basses
- Recorded on: June 20, 2010
- Label: jazzleadsheets.com (JLS 1002)
- Concert Key: G
- Style: Latin (medium)
- Multiple Basses - Daryl Johns
An arrangement by Don Sickler for a unique ensemble: 4 basses, originally recorded by Daryl Johns overdubbing on all parts. Bass 1 has the melody on the head; on the A sections, basses 2 and 3 have a countermelody together and bass 4 provides the bass line, but toward the end of the chorus they have more independent counterpoint. There is a vamp intro, eight measures to set up the head; on the recording Daryl solos over this vamp on a separate overdubbed 5th track. This vamp is also played as a coda, extended to 16 measures on the recording leading into a final chord. There's a fill in harmonics over this chord; as this is quite tricky the harmonics were put together on the recording one note at a time. Our score and parts indicate "assign single harmonic"—each note should be played by one bassist only, as a four-note pyramid. These harmonics are written in treble clef in the sounding octave.
This track is also available in Minus You format; click on the second album cover (Don & Daryl) for details.
This track is also available in Minus You format; click on the second album cover (Don & Daryl) for details.
Daryl Johns was 13 years old when he recorded the "Tribute To Paul Chambers" project. More Chambers compositions in multiple-bass arrangements are coming soon to jazzleadsheets.com.
- Recording: Don Sickler - Don & Daryl
- Recorded on: July 2, 2024
- Label: jazzleadsheets.com (JLS 1066)
- Concert Key: G
- Style: Latin (medium)
- Flugelhorn - Don Sickler
- Multiple Basses - Daryl Johns
An unusual opportunity to play with the accompaniment of three overdubbed basses. Our Minus You melody part includes combined rhythms of the bass countermelodies below the staff. These cue notes are marked with accents where the cued line switches from one bass part to another. Also cued are the top two lines of the intro vamp at the beginning of the intro and coda (as well as the end of the head where it sets up the solo chorus) and a suggested melody fill at the end of the coda.
Click on Minus You for more details.
Click on Minus You for more details.
This recording is the same take as the "Tribute To Paul Chambers" 4-bass arrangement, but with Don Sickler on trumpet replacing the Bass 1 track. For another Minus You track with multiple bass parts also recorded by Daryl Johns, check out Tempo di Max (It has a video showing Daryl as he recorded it!). More arrangements from this project are coming soon to jazzleadsheets.com.
MP3 Minus You melody format:
-- count off sets up the intro
-- solo over the intro vamp
-- play the melody
-- solo 2 choruses
-- play the out melody
-- solo over the coda vamp
-- count off sets up the intro
-- solo over the intro vamp
-- play the melody
-- solo 2 choruses
-- play the out melody
-- solo over the coda vamp
Paul Chambers
April 22, 1935 – January 4, 1969
Bassist Paul Chambers was a leading rhythmic force in the 1950s and 1960s. He became one of the signature bassists in jazz history. Born in Pittsburgh but raised in Detroit, Chambers initially took up the baritone horn as a child. He followed suit with the tuba and didn't become interested in the string bass until 1949. Listening to Charlie Parker and Bud Powell and studying under a bassist of the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Chambers began making headway in small bars of Hastings Street area and doing club jobs with Kenny Burrell, Thad Jones and Barry Harris. He did classical work in a group called the Detroit String Band, a rehearsal symphony orchestra. Read more...