In honor of what would have been Tony Williams’s 76th birthday, here’s the first part of a solo I’ve been listening to since college— Troyland apartments at USC, 1988, to be exact. I put this […]
Category: transcriptions
Transcription: Billy Cobham – More
Billy Cobham playing a swing tune in kind of a show band setting here, on Stanley Turrentine’s album The Sugar Man. A lot of it hardly merits a full transcription, except it’s good to see […]
Transcription: Ralph Penland ensemble figures
From Freddie Hubbard’s Keep Your Soul Together album, here’s Ralph Penland playing an ensemble section from a very nice tune, Brigitte. I saw Penland play a couple of times in Los Angeles when I was […]
Transcription: Tony Williams – Life Suite, Part 2
Some more from that self-titled Stanley Clarke album. I must have gotten the record in high school. Nobody ever told me to get it, I was just rooting through the stacks at the used record […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes feature
UPDATE: I have extreme quality readers. Jim in the comments pointed out a bunch of errors in this, and figured out the insane Mystery Lick on the second page. The corrected pdf is up now. New […]
Transcription: Philly Joe Jones – Stablemates – intro
A little drum solo intro played by Philly Joe Jones on Stablesmates, from Milt Jackson’s record Bags Meets Wes!. It’s 16 bars long, even though there are no 16 bar phrases in the tune— the […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Directions
Here’s that Jack Dejohnette transcription I mentioned yesterday— on the intro of Directions, from Miles Davis Live at the Fillmore East – It’s About Time. The 8th note quintuplets I mentioned happen right up front, […]
Transcription: Jack Dejohnette – Climax – drum solo
Another drum solo from a Jackie McLean record. Jack Dejohnette early in his career, soloing on a fast tune from McLean’s album Jackknife. The tune is Climax, tempo is about half note = 160. We […]
Transcription: Roy Haynes – It’s Time – drum solo
Here’s Roy Haynes’s drum solo from the title track of a Jackie McLean record we visited a few months ago, It’s Time. The solo begins at 5:31. Pull up my Cliché Control page and start […]
Transcription: Elvin Jones – Chasin’ the Trane – 09
Continuing this project, here are the 49th-54th choruses of Elvin Jones’s playing on Chasin’ the Trane, from John Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard. Transcription begins at 9:20 in the recording. I see there’s a […]