Space VI – bumper book of solos (all instruments)

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….

• Spaces VI – Solos (PDF, 108MB)

Herbie Hancock & McCoy Tyner – 2 new ones found

Just found these two transcriptions on Petri Krzywacki’s site. Very well done transcriptions, in pdf format, clearly he’s taken alot of time over them. The Herbie one in particular is interesting as its an example of having to keep the piano riff going while he builds a solo (which he does masterfully, of course…):

• Herbie Hancock – Watermelon Man (from ‘Takin’ Off’)
• McCoy Tyner – One Mint Julep (from Freddie Hubbard’s ‘Open Sesame’ album)

Bob Keller’s video collection…

…Is a wonderful collection of video’s of great jazz musicians doing their thang. Bob must have collected these over years and he’s presenting them on his site in all their WMV goodness. Bills Evans fans (like me) are particularly well catered for, although Coltrane and Getz are there too. What you waitin’ for: get tuned in.