Jazz Transcriptions

JAZZ TRANSCRIPTIONS
Updating and adding to transcriptions that were formerly housed at the 
University of South Carolina Jazz Page 
BILL EVANS | GUITAR | PIANO | BRASS | SAXOPHONE
bligon@mozart.sc.edu

Second best thing to playing your own solos: learning, hearing and seeing what great jazz artists play. 
Here are a few to get started. [I might have Bb copies if requested.] Tunes listed without links will be posted soon.
I'm sure there are mistakes. Help me out if you find some.
TRANSCRIPTION ELEMENTS 
Explains many items in the comments of the posted transcriptions.

BILL EVANS TRANSCRIPTIONS
TUNE COMMENTS
Who Can I Turn To? Jazz 625
Falling Grace Beautiful Steve Swallow tune. Bill Evans & Eddie Gomez duo.
Funallero
Gone with the Wind From Eloquence. Motivic development. Both hands transcribed.
I Hear a Rhapsody Of course it’s a great solo. This is from Montreux II. It would be worth the time to study when he changes chords and how the left-hand compliments and sometimes contradicts what the right is doing.
Invitaion
Touch of Your Lips Chord changes comparison Just the chord changes for The Touch of Your Lips lined up. Two versions from lead sheets, eight different Bill Evans choruses from Alone (Again) and two Bill Evans choruses from Live at Montreux. [Live at Montreuxsolo transcription is below.] This might provide some material for studying harmonic options and how they may help develop a solo. This example is why I am amused when someone talks about the “correct” chord changes for any tune. Look at the variations used by John Scofield in Sancticity below, just in m.5 of the A sections
Touch of Your Lips Solo From Live at Montreux. Bill Evans “Live at Montreux” version. Great extended arpeggios from melodic minor modes
It is interesting to compare the same artist play the same piece at different stages in a career. 
What gets added? What stays the same?   
Here are some BILL EVANS waltzes at different stages in his career. 

ARTIST COMMENTS TUNE
Bill Evans 1967 Emily
Bill Evans 1968 Emily
Bill Evans 1969 Emily
Bill Evans 1969 Emily
Bill Evans 1970 Emily
ARTIST INSTRUMENT COMMENTS
Bill Evans Waltz for Debby Bill Evans Album 2nd solo
Bill Evans Waltz for Debby Take 1
Bill Evans Waltz for Debby Take 2
ARTIST TUNE COMMENTS
Bill Evans Very Early 1967
Bill Evans Very Early 1972
Bill Evans Very Early 1973
Bill Evans Very Early 1974
GUITAR
[more coming soon]
ARTIST INSTRUMENT TUNE COMMENTS
Jim Hall Guitar You‘d be so Nice Jim Hall shows us how to play with economy and develop compound melody lines. Transcribed by Matt Alley
Jonathan Kreisberg Guitar Five Bucks a Bungalow Transcribed by Kyle Bryant
Sylvain Luc Guitar Isn’t She Lovely One of many great solos by Sylvain Luc you can find on this tune while searching youtube. From the Duo CD with Biréli Lagrène. Some of the rhythms are tricky to read and write. The basic 8th is swinging. Luc uses a lot of triplets for the 12-8 feel, plus double time 16ths. I tried to be somewhat accurate differentiating between notes on the 2nd or 3rd note of a triplet - makes it difficult to sight read. SOLO starts c.1:29
Wes Montgomery Guitar Here‘s That Rainy Day Beautiful lines
Wes Montgomery Guitar D Natural Blues Great solos by Tommy Flanagan and Wes Montgomery with Percy Heath’s bass line.
Joe Pass Guitar Have You Met Miss Jones? From the Chops recording. Transcribed by Andy Bell.
Joe Pass Guitar All the Things You Are 1 simple first chorus
Joe Pass Guitar Blues in G This is from an instructional video formerly available on youtube, but still available from the video [Joe Pass Jazz Lines]. May still be available on youtube...
Joe Pass Guitar Nobody Else But Me A Jerome Kern tune you might not know...
John Scofield Guitar Sancticity [article: complete solo at the end] From live recording with Jim Hall. Contrafact on “Stompin‘ at the Savoy”
Clint Strong Guitar After You‘ve Gone Great vocabulary. Live TV solo begins c. :34
PIANO
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ARTIST COMMENTS TUNE
Kenny Barron From “Moon Alley”. Compare with Kenny Garrett and Tom Harrell Scrapple from the Apple
Chick Corea Contemporary Blues from “Now He Sings, Now He Sobs” Matrix
Red Garland What is This Thing Called Love?
Red Garland Transcribed by Phil Castro. Exercises Billies Bounce
Red Garland Exercises developed from Red Garland Solos Outlines & 3579 Arpeggios
Red Garland Swinging A Foggy Day
Benny Green WDR Big Band Cottontail
Herbie Hancock Great Rhodes scholar. Funk solo from about 8:30 into the tune. Chameleon
Herbie Hancock Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock & Freddie Hubbard solos transcribed by Bert Ligon. Modern Jazz doesn’t get much better than this. Wayne develops such simple and clear ideas. Freddie is dramatic and swinging. Herbie takes the quartal motive from the melody, fragments, displaces and develops it like an analytical cubist. Witch Hunt
Keith Jarrett Exquisite, Rhapsodic Prism
Keith Jarrett 8 measure perfection Country
Keith Jarrett Exquisite, Rhapsodic Questar
Keith Jarrett Simple to Complex over Kern tune. In Love in Vain
Keith Jarrett All the Things You Are
Keith Jarrett Stella by Starlight
Keith Jarrett 15 choruses, 480m of Jarrett. Sure, there are bound to be mistakes. Let me know... What is This Thing Called Love?
Wynton Kelly Remember
Oscar Peterson & Stan Getz Swings the house down Pennies from Heaven
Oscar Peterson Swinging, as you would expect Strike up the Band
Bud Powell Transcribed by Louie Hehman Scrapple from the Apple
Tommy Flanagan D–Natural Blues Great solos by Tommy Flanagan, Wes Montgomery, and Percy Heath bass lines
BRASS
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ARTIST INSTRUMENT TUNE COMMENTS
Louis Armstrong Trumpet West End Blues Roots
Chet Baker Trumpet There Will Never be Another You Compare to Woody Shaw, Kenny Garrett, Clifford Brown & Lou Donaldson
Clifford Brown Trumpet Confirmation From this. I’m guessing he’s played these changes before.
Clifford Brown Trumpet Valse Hot Swinging solo from the CD Plus 4. Mostly using outline no. 1 (connecting the 3rds).
Clifford Brown Trumpet Cherokee Well...
Clifford Brown Trumpet
Clifford Brown & Lou Donaldson Trumpet & Saxophone Split Kick Classic solos on “Another You” contrafact
Miles Davis Straight No Chaser
Tom Harrell Comrade Comrad Multiple keys, Outlines
Tom Harrell Invitation
Tom Harrell Koko
Tom Harrell Lazy Bird
Tom Harrell Joy Spring Unaccompanied Trumpet!
Tom Harrell Scrapple from the Apple
Freddie Hubbard Trumpet Witch Hunt Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock & Freddie Hubbard solos transcribed by Bert Ligon. Modern Jazz doesn’t get much better than this. Wayne develops such simple and clear ideas. Freddie is dramatic and swinging. Herbie takes the quartal motive from the melody, fragments, displaces and develops it like an analytical cubist.
Andy Martin Trombone
Rich Matteson Euphonium Stella by Starlight
Blue Mitchell Trumpet When the Saints
Blue Mitchell Trumpet Chick‘s Tune Changes similar to “You Stepped Out of a Dream”
Woody Shaw Trumpet There Will Never Be Another You Compare to Kenny Garrett, Chet Baker, Clifford Brown & Lou Donaldson
SAXOPHONE
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ARTIST INSTRUMENT TUNE COMMENTS
Michael Brecker Saxophone Confirmation Michael Brecker improvisation on Confirmation. Drummer is Chick Corea, from Corea’s “Three Quartets”.
John Coltrane Saxophone Giant Steps Score form: Chorus comparisons. This is shown in score version (all 11 choruses are lined up) making it easier to compare Coltrane's approaches to the material.
Kenny Garrett Saxophone Scrapple from the Apple Compare three solos from this recording from Tom Harrell album, Moon Alley
Kenny Garrett Saxophone There Will Never be Another You Compare Kenny Garrett, Woody Shaw, Chet Baker, Clifford Brown & Lou Donaldson [Split Kick]
Stan Getz & Oscar Peterson Saxophone Pennies from Heaven Includes sax & piano solos. Swings the house down
Jimmy Heath Saxophone All the Things You Are Fundamental Vocabulary, Outlines
Hank Mobley Saxophone Tenor Conclave Fundamental Vocabulary, Outlines
Chris Potter Saxophone Cherokee in 10 Keys Vocabulary & Development: solo saxophone
Chris Potter Saxophone Darn That Dream Cadenza Amazing Cadenza from live performance
Sonny Rollins Saxophone I Want to be Happy I'm Happy
Sonny Rollins Saxophone Tenor Madness Classic Sonny
Sonny Rollins Saxophone St. Thomas Motivic Development, addressing the changes. Your solos can be both.
Sonny Stitt & Sonny Rollins Saxophone Eternal Triangle Head, Rollins solo, Stitt solo, trading. 641m of fun.641
Darmon Meader Vocals On a Clear Day Two solos: one live, one studio. Transcribed by Sarah Kervin.
Wayne Shorter Saxophone Witch Hunt Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock & Freddie Hubbard solos transcribed by Bert Ligon. Modern Jazz doesn’t get much better than this. Wayne develops such simple and clear ideas. Freddie is dramatic and swinging. Herbie takes the quartal motive from the melody, fragments, displaces and develops it like an analytical cubist.
Lou Donaldson & Clifford Brown Saxophone & Trumpet Sensation Split Kick Both solos from classic Art Blakey live, 1954.
Charlie Parker Saxophone Scrapple from the Apple Compare with others.
Chris Potter Alto Saxophone Star Eyes From Gratitude [2001]
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