Posts Tagged ‘tenor saxophone solo’
Live solo on “Jump Jive and Wail”
April 14th, 2010 | 
Author: This is a live clip from a gig I did 5-6 years ago. It’s on the tune “Jump Jive and Wail”. I have no idea what mouthpiece I’m using on this. This is a bit of a different style of music than I usually post clips of so I thought some of you might like it. There are some players out there that play this style almost 100% of the time and sound great on it. Many times when playing in this style I use mostly the blues scales and throw some growl into the sound. I wasn’t growling on this clip but on many other solos in this style I am. You want to try to keep things simple. If you get to complex with your playing on this stuff it totally misses the style and groove of the music. Anyways, enjoy…………..Let me know what you think. Steve
Transcription of Chris Potter’s solo on “All The Thing You Are”
This bootleg recording is of Chris Potter teaching at a clinic. It’s been floating around the internet for a number of years now and is an amazing example of what Chris Potter can do with a jazz standard like “All the Things You Are”. He’s playing it solo! Just him and his tenor sax.
Now, if you are a follower of jazz and all things saxophone you are probably quite impressed if not in shock by this solo. But I have another item that will impress and shock you also. Ben Doherty has transcribed this whole solo! Every note. This is an amazing task. I know because I had the ambition to do this myself at one time. I transcribed about 4 choruses of the solo before I gave up. I thought “This is impossible and will take way too much time”. Well, shortly after this Ben came out with his transcription and I was one happy camper. I couldn’t believe that he had done this. Here’s the link to download the transcription.
You will notice that there is a donation link. You can download the solo without donating but I encourage any of you who are grateful to donate to Ben. Even if you can only donate a few bucks, I think it is important to acknowledge the work he has done here. Who knows maybe if we appreciate him enough he’ll transcribe another Chris Potter “monster solo” for us! Thanks again Ben!
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