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JAZZ TRANSCRIPTIONS
Here is a small collection of jazz transcriptions.
If you have questions or comments, feel free to contact me.
e-mail Bert Ligon at
bligon@mozart.sc.edu
Phone: 803.777.6565/803.777.4280
Phone: 803.777.6565/803.777.4280
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From BeBop Big Band Transcribed by Kevin Jones
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From the Chops recording. Transcribed by Andy Bell.
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Transcribed by Kevin Jones.
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Great swinging piano solo transcribed by Steven Yelich. Every one should learn this solo and match how Red plays those lines.
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Transcribed by Mandy Lischner.
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Several transcriptions by Sarah Kervin
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Transcribed by Sarah Kervin.
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Bossa style in E major |
Transcribed by Bert Ligon.
Wes Montgomery playing incredibly clear organically developed melodic lines. From the CD Bumpin'. |
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Transcribed by Matt Younglove.
Sonny Stitt playing the blues. |
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Transcribed by Kevin Jones.
Chris Potter from from "Legends of Jazz: The Tenors". |
Blues. Yes, it's a blues. |
Transcribed by Bert Ligon.
Chick Corea's classic contemporary blues. Fiery articulations. Simple and complex ideas. From Now He Sings, Now He Sobs. |
Three historically significant solos by Wayne Shorter, Freddie Hubbard and Herbie Hancock from the Wayne Shorter CD Speak No Evil. |
Transcribed by Bert Ligon.
Modern Jazz doesn't get much better than this. Wayne develops such simple and clear ideas. Freddie is dramatic and swinging. Herbie takes the quartal motive from the melody, fragments, displaces and develops it like an analytical cubist. |
Darmon Meader's scat solos from: Day Like This CD, and Youtube live version. |
Transcribed by Sarah Kervin.
In tune, swinging. Very clear lines. Includes modes of melodic minor, diminished scales, 3rd & 5th modes of Bb Major with b6, arpeggios & common melodic outlines to connect chords. (Read more about outlines) |
Oscar Peterson's solo from The Gershwin Songbook. |
Transcribed by Bert Ligon.
This is exactly what you expect - swinging from start to finish. |
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John Coltrane's solo. |
Transcribed by Bert Ligon.
This is shown in score version (all 11 choruses are lined up) making it easier to compare Coltrane's approaches to the material. |
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Paquito D'Rivera's solo. |
Transcribed by Lauren Meccia.
From the Turtle Island String Quartet CD, Danzon. |
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Bill Evans' solo. |
From Live at Montreux.
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Bill Evans' solo. |
From The Bill Evans Album.
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Tom Harrell's solo. |
Transcribed by Colin Campbell.
Tom takes simple material we all know and makes great music. |
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Transcribed by Colin Campbell.
There will always be another solo on this tune. Compare this to the solos by Woody Shaw, Kenny Garrett, and Chet Baker, [below] and take a look at Clifford Brown and Lou Donaldson on Split Kick based on the same chord progression. |
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Try applying these exercises to this tune and then transposing the ideas to all 12 major and 12 minor keys. |
The amazing and swinging Rich Matteson on euphonium playing Stella By Starlight. |
Chick Corea Piano solo transcribed by Evans McGill. Chris Potter solo transcribed by Lauren Meccia. Red Garland Piano solo. |
Joe Pass guitar first chorus |
This is from a duet with Bob Magnusson and can be viewed at www.youtube.com/ This first chorus is so simple and a great place to begin. He laters fishes for his pick and continues with some blistering lines. |
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Joe Pass solo guitar |
This is from an instructional video that can be viewed at: www.youtube.com/ |
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This is from a session recorded in March of 1988. Rob Smith on trumpet, Chris Seiter on Trombone, Bert Ligon on piano. |
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MUSC 100L transcriptions. -
Listening Guide -
Three contrasting trumpet styles. West End Blues - Louis Armstrong, Cherokee - Clifford Brown, So What - Miles Davis. |
| Touch of Your Lips | Bill Evans "Live at Montreux" version. Great extended arpeggios from melodic minor modes (like Abm over G7, Fm over D half-dim.7, Cm over F9#11), and swinging development. |
| All of Me | Sarah Vaughan scat chorus from All of Me. The original version may be from "Swinging Easy" (1954), but can be found on "Essential Sarah Vaughan" and other compilations. (The recording is a bit out of tune and in between keys.) |
| Eternal Triangle | Here is the head and five choruses from Sonny Rollins on Eternal Triangle from the Dizzy Gillespie "Sonny Side Up" CD. Anyone up for transcribing the Sonny Stitt solo and the trading that follows? |
| Confirmation | Michael Brecker improvisation on Confirmation. Duet with Chick Corea on drums from Corea's "Three Quartets". |
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Bill Evan's Tune and solo from "The Bill Evans Album". |
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Tom Harrell solos from the Bill Evans album: "We Will Meet Again". |
| Waltz
for Debby Comparisons of several solos:
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Theses transcriptions are a fountain of swing, simplicity, tranquil, funny, driving, soothing, surprising, well-crafted and developed ideas and might be good to compare, learn and add to your vocabulary. |
Invitation |
Two great solos on Invitation. Bill Evans solo is from the CD "Intuition". |
| Take the A Train | Classic solos by Harold Land and Clifford Brown. |
| D Natural Blues | Great solos by Tommy Flanagan and Wes Montgomery with Percy Heath's bass line. | Invitation | Bill Evans solo from "Intuition". |
| Split Kick | Classic Lou Donaldson and Clifford Brown solos from "Live at Birdland". Split Kick is a Horace Silver contrafact based on There Will Never be Another You. Compare Brown and Donaldson to Chet Baker, Woody Shaw, Carl Saunders and Kenny Garrett over the same progression. |
| There Will Never be Another You |
Compare Chet Baker, Woody Shaw, Carl Saunders and Kenny Garrett on There Will Never be Another You to the Clifford Brown and Lou Donaldson solos on Split Kick, based on the same progression. | Scrapple from the Apple |
Compare several great improvisers on Scrapple from the Apple. Kenny Garrett's and Tom Harrell's solos are from the CD "Moon Alley". (I will add Kenny Barron's solo soon.) |
| What's Her Name | Rich Matteson on Tuba(!) over the changes to All the Things You Are. |
| When the Saints | Blue Mitchell on the classic tune. |
| I Want to be Happy | Sonny Rollins solo on I Want to be Happy. |
| Tenor Madness | Sonny Rollins solo classic blues tune. |
| Pennies from Heaven | Stan Getz and Oscar Peterson: melody and swinging solos from both. | Sancticity | John Scofield playing on a tune by Hank Mobley written using the changes to Stompin' at the Savoy. | Sancticity Analysis | Scofield's improvistion and a thorough discussion of Scofield's improvistion. | In Love In Vain | Keith Jarrett solo from "Standards, Vol. 2". Rhythmic accuracy is next to impossible in some Jarrett passages. This moves from easy eighth-note swing to flurries of notes barely in time and then back to the easy, swinging eighths. | Country | Keith Jarrett solo from "My Song". Very simple piece, very short solo, beautifully constructed. | Stella By Starlight | Keith Jarrett solo from "Standards Live". Rhythmic accuracy is next to impossible in some Jarrett passages. As with all transcriptions, listen to the recording as standard notation can never capture jazz performance nuances. | Straight No Chaser | Miles Davis solo. Takes Cannonball's last few notes and runs. | What
is This Thing Called Love, pp.1-4 What is This Thing Called Love, pp.5-8 What is This Thing Called Love, pp.9-12 What is This Thing Called Love, pp.13-14 |
Keith Jarrett's improvisation from the CD Whisper Not. Plays three
choruses out front over left hand ostinato-like accompaniment. Chorus
No.4 is the melody statement. He then plays eleven more choruses before
hands it over to the bass solo.
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Original Compositions by Bert Ligon
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