I thought it was about time that I posted again and I know I’ve been a bit lax of late (just REALLY busy at work). Kenny B – he’s a true dude and god of the piano. All of his playing is so swinging and I really like his phrasing. As a sideman I imagine he’s simply perfection as he is ‘straight-ahead’ and conventional yet flexible enough to really go with it.
So here’s a PDF transcriptions AND reference audio file for Kenny playing his own composition ‘Dolores Street S.F’. It’s from one of his very early albums that were often a bit variable in quality, but this track is typical of the man – great harmonies and swinging touch combined with a slight darkness too. Enjoy!
Posted on 17 July '10 by admin, under piano. No Comments.
I’ve updated (and re-dated) this post with more and more blogs shutting down, or rather, getting shut down. Blogger.com are clamping down big-time and some work-of-art blogs are now no longer available.
However, all the sites not struck-through below were live at the time of writing (04/06/2010)
OK, so it’s not a transcription, but I wanted to share with you three of my favourite music blogs that offer a treasure trove of rare and top quality jazz and jazz-funk grooves for your listening pleasure.
- The CTI never sleeps contains TONS of albums produced by Creed Taylor and his CTI-related labels.
- Jazz Disposition is fantastic. Lovely design too…
- Into the Rhythm – masses of jazz on here.
- Never enough rhodes is a site aimed at the rhodes enthusiast (hence why I love it!) but any fan of funk-groove-soul music will love this.
- FunkyFullofWatt has over 2000 funk tracks and links to some other great blogs.
- Ile Oxuare has some rare jazz cuts, god knows what the title means, but who cares – go visit!
- MyJazzWorld a great variety of stuff on here and a huge amount of content that is clearly a completely labour of love.
- Funk My Soul blog has some of the best OoP vinyl rips of funk/soul/groove
- Where did all this steam come from is another jazz related blog with a massive variety of content.
- http://jazzheads.blogspot.com/ and http://jazz-the-two-of-us.blogspot.com/
- And http://musicadesdelasantipodas.blogspot.com/
- MPS goodness here…
- Live jazz goodies here… stuff you can’t, nor will ever be able, to buy
- The incredible zona de jazz, a mammoth amount of stuff on here
- http://jazzallthat.blogspot.com
- http://musicacion.blogspot.com
- Fusion Jazz and Something Else for those that swing both ways
- And the great MyFavouriteSound
- Projeto Esporte Fino has some terrific funk/soul/fusion
- I’ve recently found Bentleyfunk, and its a corker
- So is All Soul and Funk
- etnikcafe.blogspot.com has a vast amount of all kinds of stuff, for those time when you fancy something different.
- Inconstant Sol is huge and has some great rare and live cuts available
- Anything Goes has a really eclectic selection of stuff on, but alot of jazz.
- ‘Taringa’ appears be some sort of Spanish knowledge sharing platform, but this post has incredible rapidshare links, plus links (at the bottom) to similar posts by other users.
- 7Oregons and 2Tomoatoes is another great/huge jazz blog.
- Oufar Khan’s blog has some of the grooviest cuts of funk jazz gems.
- Buns O’Plenty is top drawer too.
- The Universal Mind Of contains only Bill Evan’s material
- 17 Green Buicks, another great jazz blog
- And Culture & Pleasure has perfect stuff for those quiet nights, and freealbumsgalore has some fine ambient too.
- Chezmateo specialises in stuff that completely OoP so you needn’t feel so guilty for checking out this one
- While the QueenBee blog is absurdly huge….
- And so is Musica Y Musicos
- And so is this one
- Kelly’s Sound Lounge has a lovely choice of stuff on.
- A Lion’s Love is truly that
- And a chap called Budd had posted some top compilations of lesser well known tracks on his blog.
- Then there’s the great nodata.tv
- LongPlay has some great fusion/funk/smooth jazz on, if that’s your bag
- YorUbaJazz has amazing has a fantastic collection of albums and artists
- La Musica De Pere has a mountain of nuJazz on
- DestinationFunk3 doesn’t need any explaining
- Holyf**kingShit4000 is a huge one covering various jazzy genres.
Enjoy – lemme know of other blogs that you might know of …. And remember to buy the albums if you download anything you love that is still in print.
Sorry I havn’t posted for a bit – its been busy busy busy at work and at home. The band have been fairly busy and we’ve recorded a demo EP here of covers. I’d love to hear your views on it (you can stream the tracks on the site) : www.bluephunk.co.uk.
Anyway – on to what you’ve come here for! Credit goes to John Groves for this, check out his nice site that contains some other piano transctriptions. This one comes from Miles’s classic ‘Relaxin’ album. If you haven’t got it, go and buy it!
Posted on 28 May '10 by admin, under piano, trumpet. No Comments.
Johannes von Ballestrem has very kindly submitted three transcriptions for me to post here on Jazztranscriptions.co.uk. Big up to Johannes!
Enjoy! It’s great to get some in by a reader of this blog – please do come forward and submit your own!
Posted on 9 April '10 by admin, under guitar, piano, video. No Comments.
I saw Dave O’Higgins and Eric Alexander live on Friday night at Wakefield jazz, so I thought it only right to post a couple of transcriptions. Both Dave and Eric were fantastic – and major CHOPS were on show!
They had a superb rhythm section – including up-and-coming Andrew McCormack on piano – and they swung REALLY hard!
These transcriptions are courtesy of Charles McNeal.
Posted on 14 March '10 by admin, under sax. No Comments.
Whole ebook of John Coltrane transcription, includes versions of Naima, Blue Train, Syeeda’s Song Flute and others taken from top recordings.
Posted on 3 March '10 by admin, under sax. 1 Comment.
Some of OP’s solos can be insanely difficult and would require the patience of Job to learn and play. However, this version of It Ain’t Necessarily So is OP at his best – measured, swinging and incredibly cool.
I originally thought this version was from the album Porgy and Bess but I realise now that it’s not. If I find the album from whence it came, I’ll post it here. But in the meantime…
Posted on 5 February '10 by admin, under piano. No Comments.
Really nice little book containing the entire performances from that 1958 date, great way of studying the different styles of four (actually, five if you count Wynton Kelly on Freddie Freeloader) great soloists.
Posted on 15 January '10 by admin, under piano, sax, trumpet. No Comments.
Obviously these are for tenor sax, but all instrumentalists can learn lots from his great lines…
Posted on 14 January '10 by admin, under sax. No Comments.
Happy New Year all! Hope you have grown suitably rotund over the festive period.
The ‘Spaces’ series of books are alternative Real books that combine a huge amount of charts in about 6 volumes. But the last volume is probably the best – it contains over 400 pages of famous solo’s from tons of artists. So here it is for your downloading pleasure….
Posted on 6 January '10 by admin, under miscellaneous. No Comments.
