Shorter, Hubbard, Hancock – Witch Hunt

‘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.

Posted on 5 August '11 by admin, under piano, sax, trumpet. No Comments.

A new find of various good things

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.

Posted on 16 October '10 by admin, under guitar, learning, piano, sax, trumpet. No Comments.

Red Garland – I Could Write a Book

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.

Kind of Blue transcriptions (ebook)

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.