Archives: June 2024

• Late June: Elmo Hope and more

  On June 27 we celebrated what would have been Elmo Hope's 101st birthday by releasing Eyes So Beautiful As Yours, an exquisite ballad from his 1961 album "Homecoming." Full score and sextet parts are available. Also check out pianist Sullivan Fortner's video of this song (second album cover).

  We've also added six songs with recording anniversaries in late June:
  -- June 17 and 18, 1963: Let's Try (Tom McIntosh) from James Moody's album "Great Day" plus the original Maynard Ferguson recording.
  -- June 18, 1965: The Dip and The Vamp (Hank Mobley) from his album "Dippin'."
  -- June 21, 1962: Space Station (Grachan Moncur, III) from the Art Farmer-Benny Golson Jazztet album "Another Git Together" - also check out our very different exclusive solo piano recording by Micah Thomas
  -- June 25 and 26, 1993: Peacemaker (Cecil McBee) from Arthur Blythe's album "Retroflection" and others
  -- June 25 and 26, 1986: Alvin's Smile (Harold Land) from the Timeless All-Stars album "Essence"

• More great Donald Brown!

  To celebrate the June 4-5 recording anniversary of Donald Brown's first album as a leader ("Early Bird" - 1987), you'll see we've added editions so all of Donald's originals from this album are now available for you to study and play …

  We couldn't find the exact day in June that Donald recorded his trio album The Sweetest Sounds which also contains Donald's first recordings of two more of his classic compositions Affaire D'Amour and Nature's Folksong, so we're are also making those lead sheets available now.

  On June 6, 1987, the next day after Donald completed his "Early Bird" album, saxophonist Bill Pierce went into the studio making the first recording of Donald's Afronomical. A masterpiece!

• The bass lines came first!

  Today, June 3, is the recording anniversary of two important jazz standards.
  When Kenny Dorham suggested to Joe Henderson that each write a bass line first, then create a melody on top of it, for Joe Henderson's "Page One" album, they had no idea that these bass lines would ignite the creation of two important jazz standards: Kenny Dorham's Blue Bossa and Joe Henderson's Recorda-Me. Get the whole story on the Historical Notes pages for The Forgotten Line and Blue Bossa.

• You 'N' Me, an Al Cohn classic!

  You 'N' Me! We're starting our June recording anniversary celebration off this year with Al Cohn's original recording (with Zoot Sims) of this great composition. We hope you'll also check out our June 1-7 video which starts with Al's The Note, which is from the same album.

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