{"id":101759,"date":"2020-11-30T14:13:28","date_gmt":"2020-11-30T19:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=101759"},"modified":"2023-02-07T12:45:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T17:45:46","slug":"chris-potters-burnin-impressions-tenor-saxophone-solo-transcription","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2020\/11\/chris-potters-burnin-impressions-tenor-saxophone-solo-transcription\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris Potter&#8217;s Burnin&#8217; Impressions Tenor Saxophone Solo Transcription"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another great tenor sax solo transcription by Dimitrii Sergheev of Chris Potter soloing on Impressions by John Coltrane.\u00a0 Chris Potter is at the 2019 Groundup Music Fest when people could still hang out together and listen to music. Boy, do I miss those days&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Last summer,\u00a0 I discovered Dimitrii Sergheev on Facebook when he was posting killer transcriptions on Youtube.\u00a0 Dimitrii caught my attention because we seem to have the exact same tastes in great tenor sax solos that need to be transcribed.\u00a0 I reached out to Dimitrii on Facebook and he happily sent me a bunch of his transcription and gave me permission to post them here on my site.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-99034\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/ChrisPotter.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"330\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Potter<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This is the sixth transcription by Dimitrii Sergheev that I am sharing with his permission. This is Chris Potter&#8217;s burning tenor sax solo on &#8220;Impressions&#8221; from a Youtube video of Chris playing for a masterclass at the GroundUp Music Fest 2019, Miami Beach.\u00a0 Here&#8217;s the video:<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8tPs9UnCwkc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Chris Potter at Ground Up Music Fest 2019-Impressions Tenor Sax Solo<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>This Chris Potter tenor saxophone solo on Impressions is relatively short compared to some of Chris Potter&#8217;s other live solos but there is a lot of cool lines and ideas throughout the solo to learn from.<\/p>\n<p>Please support Dimitrii so that he is encouraged to keep transcribing these great sax solos!!!\u00a0 You can find him at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/user\/dmitriisergheev\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dimtrii Sergheev&#8217;s Youtube<\/a> where you can &#8220;like&#8221; and &#8220;follow&#8221; his page to keep up to date with his latest transcriptions.\u00a0 You can also find him on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sergheevdmitrii\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">his facebook page<\/a> as well as hear samples of his sax playing on his <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/dmitrii-2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">soundcloud page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Special thanks, as always, to Chris Potter for all of his contributions to jazz music and the saxophone.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NEyy0nEpZcU\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 12px; background-color: #f0b646; line-height: 1.4;\"><em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/Impressions-as-played-by-Chris-Potter-Masterclass-At-GroundUp-Music-Fest-2019-Tenor-Saxophone.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Chris Potter at Ground Up Music Fest 2019-Impressions Tenor Sax Solo-Bb PDF<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n*If you would like to support me here at neffmusic.com, you can do so\u00a0on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product-category\/support\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">support page of my store<\/a> by debit or credit card. \u00a0 Any support is appreciated and will go towards keeping this site running, saxophone reeds, mouthpiece patches, coffee, and towards justifying the many hours I spend on providing free transcriptions to the saxophone community!\u00a0 Thanks,\u00a0 \u00a0Steve<\/em><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"line-height: 1.5;\">If you love these type of Chris Potter lines, be sure to check out my PDF book &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/approach-note-velocity-minor-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Approach Note Velocity Volume 2-Minor<\/a>&#8220;, which includes hundreds of approach note lines over minor chords that I have written out in all 12 keys. These lines are the foundation to building a great jazz vocabulary!! <\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/approach-note-velocity-minor-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-15910 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/d1av9c1o38t6ow.cloudfront.net\/2021\/ApproachAd.jpg\" alt=\"II-V-ICoverAd\" width=\"258\" height=\"336\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/approach-note-velocity-minor-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Approach Note Velocity Volume 2-Minor<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is another great tenor sax solo transcription by Dimitrii Sergheev of Chris Potter soloing on Impressions by John Coltrane.\u00a0 Chris Potter is at the 2019 Groundup Music Fest when people could still hang out together and listen to music. Boy, do I miss those days&#8230;.. Last summer,\u00a0 I discovered Dimitrii Sergheev on Facebook when [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":101761,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[69,2012,716,78,265,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-101759","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-transcriptions","8":"tag-chris-potter","9":"tag-impressions","10":"tag-jazz-sax","11":"tag-solo","12":"tag-tenor-saxophone","13":"tag-transcription","14":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101759\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101761"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}