From 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!
With a Song In My Heart – Sonny Clark
Unit Seven – Wynton Kelley
From Smokin’ at the Half Note (1965 with Wes Montgomery, Paul Chambers & Jimmy Cobb)
How My Heart Sings – Bill Evans
from 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.
How My Heart Sings – Bill Evans
Night and Day – Bill Evans
This is From the Stan Getz & Bill Evans album (1964 – with Getz on tenor, Ron Carter on bass and Elvin Jones on drums). I love the 8 bar tacit solo breaks in this arrangement. This was my first serious transcription attempt, and I should go back and get the second chorus and some of the harmony.
The Complete Bill Evans on Verve box set includes a lot of outtakes from this album, including one or two where Bill stops in frustration on a tacit solo section. There are other delightful moments from the recording of this album, like when Stan Getz starts playing Dark Eyes, and Bill comes in with a honky-tonk stride piano part. This is the only recorded example I know of where Bill Evans plays stride piano.
My Funny Valentine – Bill Evans
From Undercurrent, the great duo album by Bill Evans and Jim Hall. Here are the piano solos from the primary and alternate takes
My Funny Valentine – Bill Evans
My Funny Valentine (alt take) – Bill Evans