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Transcription of Chris Potter’s solo on “All The Thing You Are”

February 8, 2010 by Steve 5 Comments

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.

Checkout this burning solo and thanks again Ben!

All the Things You Are-Chris Potter Solo

 

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Steve Neff has been playing and teaching saxophone and jazz improvisation around the New England area for over 30 years. He is the author of many best selling jazz improvisation methods as well as founding the popular jazz video lesson site Neffmusic.com.

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  1. Avatarjeremiah miles says

    December 7, 2014 at 8:26 am

    the link for this video doesn’t seem to work. the video just sits at a black screen.

    Reply
    • SteveSteve says

      December 8, 2014 at 9:41 am

      Thanks for letting me know Jeremiah. I fixed it. Steve

      Reply
    • AvatarCurt Romanowski says

      May 3, 2025 at 12:15 pm

      Hi, Steve… Your friend, Curt Romanowski here. There is no link to the Chris Potter All the Things You Are transcription on the page. Thanks!

      Reply
      • SteveSteve says

        May 3, 2025 at 12:33 pm

        Thanks for letting me know. I added another link to the solo. Steve

        Reply
  2. AvatarJohn Magyari says

    January 29, 2024 at 10:40 pm

    Steve,

    It looks like the link to the transcription is not on this page
    https://www.neffmusic.com/blog/2010/02/transcription-of-chris-potters-solo-on-all-the-thing-you-are/

    thanks,
    john

    Reply

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