Double Bass SuperBass Charts

[Farin]

Does anyone have any Ray Brown SuperBass, or SuperBass style charts? Im looking to be a Bass Duo or Trio for a Jazz Studio class I'm taking. I was actually looking for Blue Monk and the SuperBass Theme or anything else.
Thanks

 

[Brent Nussey]

Hi Farin.

When I was your age, I played in a little concert with a bass trio exactly like you're talking about. What I did was to lift one of the tunes off the original Superbass album (this was with John Clayton and Ray Brown on multitracked basses, before CMB made it a trio) called "one armed bandit" IIRC. It's a very simple tune. Then I just created an arrangement to feature each guy, copying the general Superbass concept, but not the exact arrangement, so I could tailor it to the strengths of the guys I was playing with.

I'm sure you could do the same.

Brent

 

[Tim Grant]

Farin,

There was a transcription of Centerpiece in one of the issues of bass player magazine. I think it was back in 2000 but I might be wrong. I'll have to go home and look.

Tim