{"id":7958,"date":"2016-11-11T12:53:22","date_gmt":"2016-11-11T20:53:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=7958"},"modified":"2016-11-11T13:03:35","modified_gmt":"2016-11-11T21:03:35","slug":"the-may-sinatra-ellington-indian-summer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2016\/11\/the-may-sinatra-ellington-indian-summer\/","title":{"rendered":"The May-Sinatra-Ellington &#8220;Indian Summer&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vibraphonist, arranger, bandleader and master transcriber Charlie Shoemake lives on th<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7961 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Shoemake.jpg\" alt=\"shoemake\" width=\"200\" height=\"177\" \/>e<br \/>\nCalifornia coast halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. As a performer who also teaches, he is known in the jazz community for the accuracy and detail of the solos that he transcribes. He&#8221;\u00a0trains his students to transcribe recorded solos &#8221;\u00a0as a means of ear training and harmonic development. Those who have studied with him include&#8221;\u00a0saxophonist Ted Nash, trombonist Andy Martin and pianist-bandleader Cecilia Coleman. He&#8221;\u00a0sent the following message yesterday on Billy May&#8217;s birthday:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>We\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re having an Indian Summer here in Cambria and since today is the birthdate of the great Billy May, I thought I would share this with you. I recently purchased a book called <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2fErPvn\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Sessions With Sinatra<\/em><\/a> by Charles L. Granata. The author stated that though <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/2eKI5ZE\" target=\"_blank\">the 1967 recording<\/a> that Sinatra made with the Duke Ellington band had a few problems (due to the bands laissez faire attitude toward intonation, reading and rehearsing). He also emphasized&#8221;\u00a0that it produced one true classic. It was Billy May\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fantastic arrangement of &#8220;Indian Summer,&#8221; complete with stunning performances by Sinatra and Johnny Hodges. Don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if you have the recording but here it is. I even transcribed Billy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s intro as it really knocked me out. The harmonies he came up with are from another planet.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7960 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Screen-Shot-2016-11-11-at-11.00.52-AM-1-e1478896178932.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-11-11-at-11-00-52-am\" width=\"500\" height=\"326\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/11eUAoFuoVQ\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<div align=\"center\">\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"text-align: left;\">Thanks to Charlie for helping us rediscover a&#8221;\u00a0great recording.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vibraphonist, arranger, bandleader and master transcriber Charlie Shoemake lives on the California coast halfway between Los Angeles and San Francisco. As a performer who also teaches, he is known in the jazz community for the accuracy and detail of the solos that he transcribes. He&#8221;\u00a0trains his students to transcribe recorded solos &#8221;\u00a0as a means of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7961,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7958","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-main","8":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7958\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7961"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}