Jazz Transcriptions

[Joseph K]

[Joseph K]

[Joseph K]

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[Joseph K]

Some great person wrote down this magical thing:

[Joseph K]

Bireli Lagrene - Donna Lee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zheT830wUq8

[Joseph K]

[Serial_Apologist]

Having just "followed" () Ant Law's transcribed solo in the above, remembering Keith Tippett's answer to an interviewer that, while it might be possible to transcribe one of his own improvised solo performances, it would probably be a bit of a pain, I have to, either, hand it to the transcriber of that solo and wish him or her well, or make an assumption that there is some programme in existence capable of simultaneously recording and transcribing, rather in the way Sibelius does.

I've always thought the hardest part of writing jazz down must be working out mathematically all the durational minutiae - all those subdivisions - and knowing the corresponding rests needing notating. Either way demonstrates jazz to be the complex music it is in the rhythmic department; and I suppose one could say that in general about musics outwith the European sphere of influence, in which rhythmic and metrical complexities more than compensate for harmonic paucities perceived from the latter perspective, which would once have been one way of putting non European musics down, had anyone (frankly) with any perspective to speak of, really known much about it!

[Joseph K]

This looks interesting -

[Joseph K]

One for drummers:

[Joseph K]

[Joseph K]

Just finished writing down Mike Stern's first chorus on Stella by Starlight here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cghFROpxKHo



I actually learnt to play this a while ago but didn't write it down at the time. Learning it again, it's really impressed upon me how expressive Stern's playing is - all those nuances and slides. Interesting that he lands on an A natural on the B flat dominant chord in bar 6, then bends it back up! But this 'wrong' note still sounds pretty good. And, as S_A states above also applies to this, a lot of this is rather un-quantised, how Stern pushes and pulls notes around - I have tried to replicate that without overcomplicating things... Now I'll set about relearning and writing down his second chorus...

[Joseph K]

John McLaughlin is one hip cat

[Joseph K]

Here's the second chorus of the Mike Stern Stella by Starlight performance posted above:

[Joseph K]

I love this solo: