O.P. Meets L.T. – Eli "Lucky" Thompson & Oscar Pettiford
A bass feature on "rhythm changes" in C. In addition to the arrangement from the original recording, we have our own version available in Minus You format, with transcribed piano comping voicings.
- Recording: Lucky Thompson - Featuring Oscar Pettiford, Vol. 1
- Recorded on: January 24, 1956
- Label: ABC-Paramount (ABC 111)
- Concert Key: C
- Vocal Range: , to
- Style: Swing (medium)
- Tenor Sax - Lucky Thompson
- Guitar - Skeeter Best
- Bass - Oscar Pettiford
Video
- Description
- Historical Notes
- Solos
- Piano Corner
- Bass Corner
- Drum Corner
- Guitar Corner
- Inside & Beyond
- Minus You
The trio arrangement from this recording is available, with a condensed score, tenor sax and guitar parts, and a bass transcription showing how Oscar Pettiford plays the in and out heads. Click on Bass Corner for more about the latter. For lead sheets and a bass melody part, click on the second album cover, our Minus You version. A transcription of Lucky Thompson's solo is also available; go to the Solos tab for details.
Other songs from this trio session include Bo-Bi, My Boy and A Lady's Vanity , as well as the best-known recording of Oscar's classic Tricotism. Six days later, Lucky and Oscar recorded the rest of "": Deep Passion, Old Reliable, Translation,and Tom-Kattin'.
This is the first of two sessions featuring this trio. At the second, recorded in December of the same year, Little Tenderfoot and The Plain But The Simple Truth were recorded. This earlier session also contained the ballad properly titled A Lady's Vanity and Oscar Pettiford's well-known Tricotism.
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- Recording: Don Sickler - Don Sickler Quartet featuring Daryl Johns
- Recorded on: January 31, 2010
- Label: jazzleadsheets.com (JLS 1001)
- Concert Key: C
- Vocal Range: , to
- Style: Swing (medium)
- Trumpet - Don Sickler
- Piano - Michael Cochrane
- Bass - Daryl Johns
- Guitar - Steve Johns
Video
- Description
- Historical Notes
- Solos
- Piano Corner
- Bass Corner
- Drum Corner
- Guitar Corner
- Inside & Beyond
- Minus You
This recording is available in Minus You format for all instruments to play along with. Transcriptions of the piano comping voicings for both the trumpet and bass solos are also available, as well as piano voicing "footballs"; click on Piano Corner for more details.
Our Minus You melody parts and bass part should be used in an ensemble setting if the instrumentation is different from the original Lucky Thompson/Oscar Pettiford recording.
Transcriptions of Michael Cochrane's [link] voicings are available for his comping behind both the trumpet solo and the bass solo. Mostly four- and five-note voicings, they are a good introduction to bebop/hard bop comping, and useful for exploring "Rhythm changes" in this key. In addition, we also have two sets of "footballs" [link] based on the comping for the trumpet solo, for a great in-depth look at this style of piano comping. One is simply the same voicings from the trumpet solo comping, but with the rhythms simplified to half and whole notes. The other is similar but with the voicings themselves also simplified to smaller intervals. In both, all important chord extensions and substitute symbols are shown below the staff.
-- melody
-- instrumental solo (trumpet on recording) - 2 choruses
-- piano solo - 2 choruses (only on the minus Piano, Bass and Drums tracks)
-- bass solo - 2 choruses (only on the minus Piano, Bass and Drums tracks)
-- out melody
Because the pickup to the melody is a full measure long, we have a count-off of two measures into the pickup measure to have enough time to set the tempo
MP3 minus melody (this track works for any solo instrument) [minus you]
-- count off 2 measures, into pickup
-- melody part (includes written trades with bass)
-- melody instrument solo: 2 choruses with full rhythm section
-- out melody
MP3 minus Piano (there is a separate Piano part edition)
-- count off 2 measures, into pickup
-- melody part (written harmony parts and comping)
-- comp for the trumpet solo
-- solo with bass and drums - 2 choruses
-- comp for the bass solo
-- out melody
MP3 minus Bass (there is a separate Bass part edition)
-- count off 2 measures, into pickup
-- play the melody
-- walk for the trumpet and piano solos
-- solo - 2 choruses
-- out melody
MP3 minus Drums
-- count off 2 measures, into pickup
-- comp/hits for the melody
-- comp for the trumpet, piano, and bass solos
-- out melody
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Eli "Lucky" Thompson
June 16, 1923 – July 30, 2005
Saxophonist Lucky Thompson is one of the great treasures of jazz. He was born in Columbia, South Carolina, but was raised in Detroit, Michigan. He played in local groups with Hank Jones, Sonny Stitt and others. In August, 1943, when he was 19, he left Detroit with Lionel Hampton's Orchestra, eventually arriving in New York City. Still a teenager, his first recording date was with Hot Lips Page on March 18, 1944. Later in 1944 he started recording with both Lucky Millinder and Count Basie. Read more...

Oscar Pettiford
September 30, 1922 – September 8, 1960
Oscar Pettiford was one of the pioneers of bebop. Though mostly known as a bassist, he also was among the first to realize the potential of the cello as a jazz solo instrument. A regular at the early 1940s Harlem jam sessions that established bebop, Pettiford also played around this time with such swing greats as Duke Ellington and Coleman Hawkins. Read more...