I bought a live performance DVD from Jamey Aebersold, and was really captivated by this performance of Anthropology. It’s in Copenhagen, with “NIHOP” on bass. Lots of great “Bud” vocabulary here.
Archive for the ‘Jazz Transcriptions’ Category
Anthropology – Bud Powell
Monday, July 16th, 2007You Stepped Out of a Dream – Sonny Clark
Sunday, June 3rd, 2007From Dexter Gordon’s album A Swingin’ Affair. Great bebop vocabulary.
Minority – Bill Evans
Wednesday, May 16th, 2007From Everybody Digs Bill Evans
Blues Walk – Ritchie Powell
Saturday, April 21st, 2007From the alternate take on the album Clifford Brown and Max Roach, recorded in February 1955. I transcribed this to study some sort-of generic blues vocabulary.
Satin Doll – McCoy Tyner
Thursday, March 8th, 2007From the album McCoy Tyner plays Ellington, recorded in December 1964 for Prestige. I was looking for Tyner’s approach on super-conventional harmony. It’s still heavily rooted in speedy technique and pentatonics. (more…)
Grandfather’s Waltz – Bill Evans
Monday, July 31st, 2006from But Beautiful, a live album recorded in 1974 with Stan Getz. This solo is jammed with the classic Bill Evans vocabulary that I love, and it’s quite a composition in it’s own right. (more…)
With a Song In My Heart – Sonny Clark
Thursday, June 1st, 2006From the Great sextet album Sonny’s Crib, with Coltrane, Don Byrd, Curtis Fuller, Paul Chambers and Art Taylor. A great snapshot of the patterns Sonny could play at a blistering tempo! (more…)
Unit Seven – Wynton Kelley
Friday, September 9th, 2005From Smokin’ at the Half Note (1965 with Wes Montgomery, Paul Chambers & Jimmy Cobb) (more…)
How My Heart Sings – Bill Evans
Saturday, April 2nd, 2005from Getting Sentimental (1978 – live at the Vanguard with Philly Joe Jones on drums and Michael Moore on bass). My favorite chromatic 3-6-2-5 run comes from this solo.