{"id":47204,"date":"2017-10-26T15:42:41","date_gmt":"2017-10-26T19:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/?p=47204"},"modified":"2022-11-06T15:11:14","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T20:11:14","slug":"transcription-of-jason-fabuss-swingin-alto-sax-solo-on-cherokee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/transcription-of-jason-fabuss-swingin-alto-sax-solo-on-cherokee\/","title":{"rendered":"Transcription of Jason Fabus’s Swingin’ Alto Sax Solo on Cherokee"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here is another Facebook\u00a0 solo transcription for you.\u00a0 \u00a0I woke up at around 7:45 this morning, rolled over in bed and grabbed my phone off the side table to check what I might have missed during my\u00a0 7 hours of sleep.\u00a0 Still sleepy, I checked my email, some comments on my site, the news to see if the world blew up yet and the weather for today.\u00a0 Lastly, I decided to check Facebook to see if there was anything interesting.\u00a0 I scrolled down through a couple posts about Trump and some cute pet videos and then saw this gem.\u00a0 \u00a0My wife was still sleeping so I put my headphones in and pushed play………..<\/p>\n

I did have plans this morning but those all dropped by the wayside after hearing this swinging solo by alto saxophonist Jason Fabus.\u00a0 I went downstairs grabbed a coffee and escaped to my office where I spent the next 3 hours transcribing this gem of a solo.<\/p>\n

Jason looks to me like he is about 16 years old.\u00a0 I’m sure he must be older than that but I would be surprised if he could get into bar without being asked for his ID.\u00a0 Like I have written in other posts here on my blog,\u00a0 I love hearing new young burnin’ players I have never heard of for the first time.\u00a0 This was one of those times.\u00a0 Nothing in this solo is super complex or mind boggling but the beauty of this solo is it’s melodic content, simplicity and swing.\u00a0 Jason’s lines and ideas are great and a classic mix of bebop and blues.\u00a0 I especially love hearing this kind of playing coming from a young player.\u00a0 It’s almost like he is an old soul in a young body.<\/p>\n

Coincidently, yesterday I spent a half hour playing along with Charlie Parker soloing on Cherokee from 1943<\/a>.\u00a0 This is a killer alto sax solo by “Bird” if you haven’t checked it out yet.\u00a0 \u00a0The background for his solo was quite similar to the play along that Jason solos with here.<\/p>\n

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Jason Fabus<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thanks again to Jason Fabus\u00a0for all his energy and the great solo on Cherokee! If you want to find out more about Jason Fabus, \u00a0check out his site at www.jasonfabus.com<\/a>\u00a0 \u00a0If you live in California near Los Angeles or Orange County be sure to check out one of Jason Fabus’s groups around town. Thee is a calendar of gigs on his website.<\/p>\n

Check out the video below and the transcription. \u00a0 \u00a0 Enjoy!<\/p>\n

https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/cdn.neffmusic.com\/2017\/Fabus-Cherokee.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n

Jason Fabus soloing on\u00a0Cherokee<\/strong><\/p>\n

Jason Fabus’s Solo on Cherokee-Alto Sax Mp3<\/a>(Right click and choose “save link as” to download mp3 to your computer)<\/p>\n

Cherokee-Jason Fabus Solo Eb<\/a>
\nCherokee-Jason Fabus Solo Bb<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here is another Facebook\u00a0 solo transcription for you.\u00a0 \u00a0I woke up at around 7:45 this morning, rolled over in bed and grabbed my phone off the side table to check what I might have missed during my\u00a0 7 hours of sleep.\u00a0 Still sleepy, I checked my email, some comments on my site, the news to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":47206,"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":[119,305,1665,10,1666,78,71],"class_list":{"0":"post-47204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-transcriptions","8":"tag-alto-sax","9":"tag-cherokee","10":"tag-jason-fabus","11":"tag-jazz-saxophone","12":"tag-ray-noble","13":"tag-solo","14":"tag-transcription","15":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47204","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=47204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47206"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.neffmusic.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}