http://www.jazztranscriptions.co.uk A site for sharing the webs best jazz transcriptions Wed, 03 Mar 2010 13:12:09 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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) http://www.jazztranscriptions.co.uk/trane-transcriptions/ 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 ... http://www.jazztranscriptions.co.uk/oscar-peterson-it-aint-necessarily-so/ 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) http://www.jazztranscriptions.co.uk/kind-of-blue/ Obviously these are for tenor sax, but all instrumentalists can learn lots from his great lines... Michael Brecker solos (180KB, PDF) http://www.jazztranscriptions.co.uk/michael-brecker-ebook/ 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 ... http://www.jazztranscriptions.co.uk/spaces6-vi-bumper-book-of-solos-all-instruments/ I've updated (and re-dated) this post and because the list is really now quite long. It's for your own good really - there's just so much great stuff available. So much to listen to, so little time.... (15/12/2009) Long time, no post... After a bit of a break (no excuse other ... http://www.jazztranscriptions.co.uk/jazz-and-funk-blogs/ 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. Beautiful Love (take 2) (PDF document) http://www.jazztranscriptions.co.uk/beautiful-love-evans/ 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 ... http://www.jazztranscriptions.co.uk/marian-mcpartland-easy-living/ I can't remember where I found the original link to these, but they were originally two seperate PDF's that I've stuck into one.  Like my last Wynton Kelly post, this ebook is from a rare Japanese publisher, certainly out-of-print in the West as far as I can tell. Includes selections from ... http://www.jazztranscriptions.co.uk/keith-jarrett-bumper-book/ With his light touch, keen sense of swing and feel for for the blues Wynton Kelly is rightly revered. He didn't record too much under his own name and not surprisingly some of his best playing was under Miles.  Here's two goodies: Kelly's introduction to that famous recording of Someday My ... http://www.jazztranscriptions.co.uk/everybody-digs-wynton-kelly/