June 2024

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...

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...

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...

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.