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Dave Grusin’s big band album ‘West Side Story’, has fantastic modern big band playing, with some ridiculous arrangements. Top class all round.

This guy has a load of 'Chuck Rainey' transcriptions on his site that are up for grabs (free & well worth checking out). http://www.lowdownbass.net/transcriptions/ There are so many tracks from Chuck, not to mention all those film and top TV dates, it's hard to know where to start. Talking of 'Rock Steady', Chuck is on some other tracks ( 2/3/5/7/9/10/11/12) from that great album , 'Young, Gifted and Black' by Aretha Franklin. .

There are some funky charts up there as well, Tower Of Power etc.

I have just downloaded 'Straight No Chaser' (Buddy Rich Band) and extracted from the score. Absolutely spot on arrangement. There are tons of terrific arrangements on that site, some hand written, some engraved (Finale/Sibelius etc). Really worth hunting through and downloading. I know there is a bit of work extracting, but hey, they are free. A massive amount of work gone into those arrangements. Chart below.(Straight No Chaser). Straight No Chaser - Bass Buddy Rich.pdf

I have played many big band charts that have been arranged by top arrangers. Note for Note transcriptions during the head and chords for the solos. So, It really depends on who has done the arranging. Oliver, you download the PDF (Full Score) from the site/link above. Then (virtual) print the page(s) you want to PDF. In my case (windows 10), 'Microsoft Print to PDF'. That then saves a PDF file (you don't actually print the part if you don't want). The below PDF is a Buddy Rich chart. Not Walking, but a funk chart. There are loads of top walking lines, you just need to extract the Bass part. The arrangements are excellent and are spot on. You are not going to get any better, especially for free. Soul Kitchen - Bass Guitar Buddy Rich.pdf

Yeah, but Buddy's many followers didn't sell flip flops with the slogan "Death To Traitors".

It doesn't get any better than that lot. Terrific musicians !! But, you would have trouble selling their recordings at a UK Boot sale. Not sure is you have seen this rare footage. Wes sitting in with an (excellent) Dutch trio back in the mid 60's.

Indeed, a showbiz legend. Watching Buddy being interviewed on TV was always good for a laugh, with all his musician stories and antics. And of course, the Bus tapes are legendary. His driving, hard swinging Big Band playing was pretty spectacular in a showbiz way. Certainly put bums on seats. Not my favourite drummer, but certainly deserves his place as a respected, top musician. I only watched him play once (Lewisham Theatre in South East London), the evening was great, totally amazed by the level of musicianship from his young band. There are still a lot of his ex players who talk fondly of him, and there were some terrific, well known musos who passed through his bands. Steve Marcus (RIP) was playing Tenor with him for years and gives a great radio interview about him below (worth a listen - some good music in there as well).

Brilliant!! Great find Ian. A bunch of Pit/show players I worked with are putting a 12 piece band together. This site is ideal. Well worth a sizeable donation.

Sorry, yes my mistake. Esus4(-5)/A.

I think you named a Laptop. I remember reading somewhere that on the official Mancini score, it was written as ‘NC’ on top of the notes. Ebsus4 (-5)/A is a version I have seen written chord wise before.

Interesting little read regarding MP3 format and Soundcloud uploads (a couple of minutes). Near the end of the article, it recommends (possibly), uploading a Wav file. Although, every man and his dog has a theory on Soundcloud and compression it seems. I find it all very confusing.

I am not sure it has ever been named. I have seen many combinations quoted over the years, including partial, or implying a chord minus notes. Maybe Inspector Clouseau could give us a clue ?

Name that chord.....

Indeed, it should bring a bit more tension into the thread.

What about that ambiguous, ominous final, 'James Bond Chord' (Em/Maj9), favoured by John Barry? ***

I have quite a few Dave Grusin albums and film score/TV soundtracks. I can listen to any of them at anytime all the way through, and I quite often do.

Both electric & synth bass on this. They work well locked in together.

Actually, you could just write tacet bars, because what you end up with when a Guitarist is confronted with notation, is exactely that - Loads of tacet bars. Sorry, casual stereotyping.....

Also with a small 'o' above/below one of the stems (usually the upward stem, indicating the open string).

Oddly enough, people usually describe his s**p sound as scooped mids, in fact it isn't. That's why it's so powerful and tight.

That goes without saying. But in the interest of keeping the thread going, it's best not to mention his pink torpedo sound.

Blimey, call yourself rock and rollers..? Power chords! Root & Fifth, can contain octaves, granted. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_chord

I have that album (Future Talk), some great playing all round on it. Yes, Marcus really on top of it. That period (end of the 70’s) he seemed to be doing a lot of Fretless playing, (Dave Grusin, Lenny White etc...).

Often trashing England at Cricket as well.