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. 1 Comment.
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. 2 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. 1 Comment.
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.
A nice transcription of Bill’s performance of Beautiful Love (take 2) as it appears on the album Explorations. This is one of Bill’s early albums featuring the great bassist Scott LaFaro.
Posted on 14 December '09 by admin, under piano. 1 Comment.
A nice transcription of one of the tunes Marian plays on the ‘Live at Maybeck Hall’ recital (Concord label, 1991). Easy Living is a sweet ballad – played here in G – and this is a good place to check out some lovely ‘conventional’ (no disrespect to Marian there) piano voicings and leading. There’s a PDF and a reference audio file so it’s in .zip format this one….
Posted on 3 December '09 by admin, under piano. 1 Comment.
