Keith Jarrett – My Funny Valentine intro

I’ve found this transcription as a freebie on Ravenhood transcription site – a cracking resource, that requires you to pay a very reasonable fee before getting your mits on some excellent Jarrett transcriptions. Well worth checking out for $50.

This transcription is from his 1986 ‘Still Live’ album and is a great example of Jarrett working his way into a standard in his inimitable way.

Thelonius Monk – Pannonica

Big up for Dave Radcliffe – he’s done an excellent job of trascribing Monk’s performance of Pannonica as played on the Live in San Franciso record.

For non piano players, the single-line treble cleff is available, but here’s the full-fat version in PDF format.

5 Bills Evans transcriptions

I’ve already posted about the issues of ‘Letter from Evans‘ that are available on scribd. Fascinating reading for the Bill Evans fan.

I’ve snabbed the PDF’s and extracted the following transcriptions from various issues:

• ‘Midnight Mood’ from the ‘Alone’ album
• ‘I Loves You Porgy‘ from recording ‘At the Montreux Jazz Festival’
• ‘Someday My Prince Will Come‘ also from ‘At the Montreux Jazz Festival’
• ‘Quiet Now‘ from recording ‘Live in Paris vol 2′
• ‘The Opener‘ from recording ‘I Will Say Goodbye’

Keith Jarrett – Bregenz

I’ve recently got hold of a copy of the Bregenz concert – it was about the only solo effort from the great man that I hadn’t got. While I don’t think it’s in the same league as the Lausanne and Bremen concerts, it’s got some lovely moments. ‘Heartland’ is of course terrific, but I love the quiet opening of Part I.

Parts I, II and IV are available below (the first attachment is a zip containing many jpg files).

• Bregenz, part I
• Bregenz, part II
• Bregenz, part IV (Heartland)

For Bills Evans fans, don’t miss this

Lets face it, alot of the stuff on Scribd must violate copyright (surely?), including this fantastic batch of Bills Evan’s materials, links of which are supplied below for your perusal and pleasure. Remember to login/create an account so you can download the PDF’s.

• Bill Evans Signature Licks
• Bill Evans ‘The 70′s’
• The Bill Evans fakebook
• The Artistry of Bill Evans (excellent, I’ve owned this for years)
• The Harmony of Bill Evans (referred to in an earlier post, but here again)

Super. Smashing. Great.

Jarrett – Kyoto – opening

I love the Sun-Bear concerts.  Like all great art, the quality across the 6 CD’s is inconsistant, but when it’s right Jarretts’ ideas and execution is sublime.

One of my favourite moments comes right at the start of the Kyoto concert.  I can’t remember where I sourced this particular transcription from – I’ve had it for years – but it originally came from the magazine ‘Contemporary Keyboard‘.  By all accounts this magazine looked like it was fabulous so if you know where one can obtain back issues, then do speak up!

Anyway’s here it is scanned for you …..

• Keith Jarrett, Sun-Bear Kyoto opening (PDF)

Oscar Peterson – C Jam Blues

Here’s a great Oscar Peterson piano solo taken from his excellent Night Train album. It shows off what OP does best : swinging the pants off a blues.

• Oscar Peterson: C Jam Blues (PDF, 2.7MB)

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)

Piano Voicings Vol 60. (Aebersold)

Another amazing find on Scribd – transcribed piano voicings from Vol.60 of Aebersold play-along, ‘The Music of Freddie Hubbard’.  Dan Haerle and Mark Levine and doing the comping duties it is a really good reference for voicings and voice leading in comping:

• http://www.scribd.com/doc/6388695/Vol-60-Jazz-Piano-Voicings

Harmony of Bill Evans ebook

On Scribd.com, recently found the Jack Reilly book, The Harmony of Bill Evans, so the link is posted here. Essential reading for any jazz pianist I would have thought…

http://www.scribd.com/doc/6378042/The-Harmony-of-Bill-Evans-Piano-Score-Jack-Reilly