{"id":27617,"date":"2015-06-07T11:14:38","date_gmt":"2015-06-07T16:14:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=27617"},"modified":"2021-11-23T14:01:38","modified_gmt":"2021-11-23T19:01:38","slug":"jesse-davis-transcription-cherokee-solo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/jesse-davis-transcription-cherokee-solo\/","title":{"rendered":"Jesse Davis Transcription-Cherokee Solo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another great bop solo by one of my favorite alto players &#8220;Jesse Davis&#8221;. \u00a0Jesse has one of the best alto sounds I have heard and I love how he can incorporate killer bebop lines and phrases with a bluesy feel and sound. (Another master of this technique was without a doubt Cannonball)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s a short snippet of a bio from the Jesse Davis Wikipedia page:<\/p>\n<p><b>Jesse Davis<\/b> (born November 9, 1965) is an American jazz saxophonist. Davis began as a student in Ellis Marsalis&#8217;s New Orleans Center for Creative Arts.<span style=\"font-size: 13.3333330154419px; line-height: 20px;\">\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0After graduating, Davis embarked on a productive jazz career, recording 8 albums on the Concord Jazz label, alongside collaborations with such artists as Jack McDuff\u00a0and Illinois Jacquet. Davis has studied music at Northeastern Illinois University,\u00a0and in 1989 he received a &#8220;Most Outstanding Musician award&#8221; from <i>Down Beat<\/i>\u00a0magazine.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2015\/June\/JesseDavis.jpeg\" rel=\"shadowbox\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2015\/June\/JesseDavis.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"280\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Jesse Davis-Saxophonist<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here he is soloing over Cherokee from this Youtube video of a performance with Warren Vache from 2001.<\/p>\n<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nnX6_vz_eVk\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The solo starts around the 1:09 mark. \u00a0Enjoy! Lot&#8217;s of great lines for you to work on in this solo&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;.( I have another great solo based on the changes to Cherokee I&#8217;m working on also that should be up in a few days,,,,,,,,)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2015\/June\/Cherokee-Jesse Davis Eb.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesse Davis Solo on Cherokee-Warren Vache 2001 Youtube Video Eb PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2020\/Cherokee-Jesse Davis-Concert.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jesse Davis Solo on Cherokee-Warren Vache 2001 Youtube Video Concert PDF<\/a><\/p>\n<div style=\"padding: 12px; background-color: #f0b646; line-height: 1.4;\"><em>*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>*Charles McNeal&#8217;s website also has a transcription of this solo which is where I first discovered it. \u00a0(Thanks Charles!) I wrote out my transcription and there were enough differences that I thought it was worth posting it also&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>If you are interested in more lines and ideas in this style of playing make sure to check out my two books below on Mastering the Bebop Scale and it&#8217;s links:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/mastering-the-dominant-bebop-scale-pdf-book\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-medium wp-image-8007 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Bebop-Cover-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"Bebop Cover\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Bebop-Cover-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Bebop-Cover-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/Bebop-Cover.jpg 621w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/mastering-the-dominant-bebop-scale-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mastering the Dominant Bebop Scale<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">More than just a\u00a0book on a scale, these books incorporates bebop links and bebop resolutions that when combined with the bebop scale will produce some great bebop lines!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/mastering-the-major-bebop-scale-sound-pdf-book\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-8009\" src=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MajorBebopCover-230x300.jpg\" alt=\"MajorBebopCover\" width=\"230\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MajorBebopCover-230x300.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MajorBebopCover-115x150.jpg 115w, https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/MajorBebopCover.jpg 491w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 230px) 100vw, 230px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/product\/mastering-the-major-bebop-scale-sound-pdf-book\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Mastering the Major Bebop Scale<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another great bop solo by one of my favorite alto players &#8220;Jesse Davis&#8221;. \u00a0Jesse has one of the best alto sounds I have heard and I love how he can incorporate killer bebop lines and phrases with a bluesy feel and sound. (Another master of this technique was without a doubt Cannonball) Here&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":27623,"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":[297,1288,305,716,296,71,1287],"class_list":{"0":"post-27617","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-transcriptions","8":"tag-alto-saxophone","9":"tag-bebop-solo","10":"tag-cherokee","11":"tag-jazz-sax","12":"tag-jesse-davis","13":"tag-transcription","14":"tag-warren-vache","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27617","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=27617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27617\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}