Signature Songs Vol.1- Minus Trumpet - Bob Zottola

Our finest vocalists have come to be identified with specific songs throughout their careers.Since many instrumentalists similarly have come to love these songs, we decided to create albums devoted to these singers and 'their' songs specially arranged for the trumpet by one of the veteran players of their own generation, Bob Zottola. Bob has performed with literally all of these famous singers, 'Nat Cole, Tony Bennett, Streisand, Darin, Andy Williams, Ray Charles, Louis Armstrong and the 'the voice' himself, Frank Sinatra.These arrangements have followed the original famous renditions carefully enabling the at-home player to imagine themselves, stage-center performing these multi-million selling standards. / Trompette

Music Minus One Trumpet-This volume 3 of the Signature Series will lean towards a jazzier concept than the previous volumes and to set that tone I chose Lullaby of Birdland as the first song! And who better to place in that #1 position than Mel Torme as the singer associated with George Shearing's jazz classic! I had the pleasure of playing with the Velvet Fog in a very memorable jazzy setting. It was in the 1960s and Mel did a two week engagement at NYC's Basin Street East with the Marty Paich Dektette Band. Let's go forward to the 21st century to my play-along version and a few guidelines on how to approach it. There are actually three approaches. First as the trumpet soloist then playing the unisonline with the horns and finally as a lead player on top of the little big band. Our next song When I Fall in Love was one of Nat Cole's many huge hits. It's a song I play often on my jazz gigs. Here's a very lush arrangement for you to explore the low and high register of the hrons meaning flugelhorn for the first chorus and trumpet for the out chorus. Notice that I hug the melody only adding ornaments here and there and a modest amount of embellishments. Please focus on the subtleties and nuances in phrasing which can't be complete captured with notation. Listening with the intention of acquiring these skills is the proper mind-set. -Bob Zottola. This edition includes: a high-quality engraved printed edition of the transcribed note-for-note trumpet solo part printed on easy-to-read paper a compact disc containing the complete perofrmance of each piece in digital stereo followed by a second digital stereo version minus the soloist. Songs include: Days of Wine and Roses Ev'ry Time We Say Goodbye God Bless the Child Lullaby of Birdland Steppin' Out with My Baby When I Fall in Love Why Don't You Do Right' You Don't Know Me.