Jazz Transcriptions » sax

Shorter, Hubbard, Hancock – Witch Hunt

admin — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 10:51:57 +0000

‘Speak No Evil’ is one of the truly great modern jazz albums – brilliant writing combined with superb improvisational acumen. This ace transcription courtesy of Bert Ligon has concert versions of Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and Herbie Hancock playing through the changes. Just brilliant stuff, enjoy.

Witch Hunt (7MB, pdf with reference MP3)

Stan Getz – East of the Sun (People Time)

admin — Fri, 03 Jun 2011 11:00:13 +0000

I like Kenny Barron. But I also like Stan Getz. But which one is best? There’s only one way to find out. FIGHT!

Well alright maybe not. Perhaps just stick them together on a recording and let them play their favourite standards for 2 and a half hours. This is glorious music. Stan was nearing the end during this recording, and while some of the butter has gone from his tone, it only serves to make this music even more honest. This transcription is from the opening track of the double-album, and certainly well worth studying those lovely lines regardless of your instrument.

Stan Getz – East of the Sun (PDF and reference mp3 file)

Joshua Redman selection

admin — Thu, 27 Jan 2011 14:55:18 +0000

What’s happened to Joshua Redman anyway? He was one of jazz’s brightest stars about 15 years ago, but for some reason he’s not quite reached – or been seen to reach – the artistic heights of alot of his contemporaries.

No matter, I love his playing. And I especially love his playing on his 2000 album ‘Freedom in the Groove’. It’s probably his most ‘straight-ahead’ album, which is saying something since all the tunes are originals. This selection features 4 tracks from the album and I’ve included some low quality reference MP3′s too.

Have fun, and if you haven’t heard these tracks yet I almost guarentee you’ll want to play these charts after hearing him play them.

Joshua Redman – Freedom in the Groove Selection (10MB, zip file)

A new find of various good things

admin — Sat, 16 Oct 2010 15:02:11 +0000

I’ve just come across the transcriptions page on the Freejazzinstitute’s site. Lots of really useful stuff here – don’t think I’ve been on this site before, not sure why it’s illuded me for so long….

Wanting to post a Bill Charlap transcription up soon, been listening to alot of him.

A couple of Eric Alexanders

admin — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 18:25:32 +0000

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.

Eric’s solo on ‘Four‘
Eric’s solo on ‘You’ll See
Eric solo on ‘Giants‘ (Coltrane changes)

Trane Transcriptions

admin — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:12:09 +0000

Whole ebook of John Coltrane transcription, includes versions of Naima, Blue Train, Syeeda’s Song Flute and others taken from top recordings.

John Coltrane Artist Transcriptions (65MB, PDF)

Kind of Blue transcriptions (ebook)

admin — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 10:26:17 +0000

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.

Kind of Blue transcriptions ebook (PDF, 6MB)

Michael Brecker – ebook

admin — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 14:23:41 +0000

Obviously these are for tenor sax, but all instrumentalists can learn lots from his great lines…

Michael Brecker solos (180KB, PDF)

Scooby Sax anyone?

admin — Thu, 21 May 2009 11:43:31 +0000

For the two people that read this blog regularly , I must apologise for my lack of posting recently. Nothing bad has happened, I simply haven’t got off my bum to source any new transcriptions.

As other jazzers can probably relate to, my enthusiasm for playing/studying tends to come in waves and every so often I don’t seem to have much inspiration to do either in any great depth.

Anyway, I was listening to Hank Mobley’s Dippin’ Time just yesterday it reminded me how good he really was. Jeff Rzepiela’s site has several Hank Mobley transcriptions, along with those of other top hooters.

Sonny Rollins ebook thing found…

admin — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 10:22:04 +0000

I’ve just found this impressive 72 page ebook: which has several transcriptions of Sonny Rollins and – even better – has an analysis of the great man’s playing. There is a link to download the pdf at the bottom of the page if you wish. Grab it while its there is my advice….