I am continually amazed at all the great players that we have access to these days. When I was a kid, I had my record collection by which I learned of the famous sax players out there. I knew my teacher who sounded great every week when I saw him and I knew of […]
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Now THIS is How You Solo on a Blues! Tim Green Alto Sax Transcription
Here is another killin’ transcription from a 10th grade student of mine here in Vermont, Jack Egan. About a month ago, I shared an incredibly hard transcription on the site that Jack had done on Vincent Herring’s solo on “All the Things You Are”. Around that time, I shared another recording with Jack of a Youtube […]
Transcription of Jeff Ellwood’s Solo on Freedom Jazz Dance
Here’s another transcription from the Jeff Ellwood “School of Outness”. This is from another video of Jeff that I found on Facebook a couple of months ago and put in my transcription folder of cool solos I had to one day transcribe. The video below is Jeff Ellwood playing a tenor sax solo over “Freedom Jazz […]
Seamus Blake “Billie’s Bounce” Tenor Saxophone Solo Transcription
Here’s another great blues solo transcription from one of my favorite players, Seamus Blake. This is a fast blues called “Billie’s Bounce” and is from an obscure CD entitled “Sax Summit”. I say obscure because I am probably one of the biggest fans and followers of jazz saxophone recordings and I had never heard of it […]
Bob Mintzer Tenor Saxophone Solo Transcription-New Rochelle
Here’s another great solo transcription from John Blevins. John has graciously sent me a number of his transcriptions and given me permission to share them with the sax world on my site here. This is another great sax solo by Bob Mintzer. The tune is New Rochelle from the album “Latin from Manhattan” and the […]
Bob Mintzer Tenor Saxophone Solo Transcription-My Romance
Here’s another great solo transcription from John Blevins. John has graciously sent me a number of his transcriptions and given me permission to share them with the sax world on my site here. This is another great sax solo by Bob Mintzer. The tune is My Romance from the 1988 album “Spectrum”. My Romance […]
Wilton Felder’s Street Life Solo Transcription
Here’s another great solo transcription from John Blevins. John has graciously sent me a number of his transcriptions this last week and given me permission to share them with the sax world on my site here. This is a great sax solo by Wilton Felder who was the cofounder of the Crusaders. The tune is Street […]
Joel Frahm “All the Things You Are” Tenor Sax Transcription
Here’s another solo by another great tenor saxophone player and incredibly nice guy, Joel Frahm. Joel has commented on neffmusic.com quite a few times over the years and his passion for everything to do with the saxophone is very obvious. (I imagine we could spend a few hours in a bar talking about mouthpieces very easily……..) […]
Seamus Blake “Blues Up and Down” Saxophone Solo Transcription
Here’s a great solo transcription from one of my favorite players, Seamus Blake. This is a fast blues called “Blues Up and Down” and is from an obscure CD entitled “Sax Summit”. I say obscure because I am probably one of the biggest fans and followers of jazz saxophone recordings and I had never heard of it before […]
Bob Malach Solo Transcription from Ishimori Demo Video
Here’s another transcription that I worked on this week. This is from a video that Bob Malach put out on Youtube about Ishimori products. Bob talks for the first part of the video about his Ishimori ligature, neck, screws and thumbrest. On the second half of the video he plays a nice funky solo over […]
Great Video on Giant Steps
I found this posted on Dave Valdez’s blog. It’s really amazing to watch. It’s a video of John Coltrane’s Giant Steps solo transcription being put on the page as the recording is playing. There is something about watching the video that is amazing. You’re hearing John Coltrane play a great tenor sax solo as the […]
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