Jimmy Forrest Bolo Blues
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Very nice, thank you.
Jimmy is one of my favorites and certainly incredibly underrated! I bet most of the kids coming up today haven’t even heard of him. I put up a post a long time ago trying to introduce him to people who haven’t heard of him...,and it seems like there were many.
This guy was phenomenal!
Thank you again.
Jimmy is one of my favorites and certainly incredibly underrated! I bet most of the kids coming up today haven’t even heard of him. I put up a post a long time ago trying to introduce him to people who haven’t heard of him...,and it seems like there were many.
This guy was phenomenal!
Thank you again.
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I posted a THREADhttps://forum.saxontheweb.net/showthread.php?363562-Jimmy-Forest-on-a-Link-vs-Berg&highlight=Jimmy+Forrest comparing Jimmy on a double ring Link in 1959, and then on a SS Berg in 1961.Thanks for the transcription.
Jimmy is also one of my all time favourite tenor players (for a very long time). Here is the clip of 'Bolo Blues', for those who don't know him:
This sounds more like the Berg to me.
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Thanks for the transcription. I'm definitely going to work on this as soon as I get my tenor issues worked out. Bolo Blues is a great tune off a great album (Out of The Forrest). However, my favorite song from that album is Jimmy's version of "Yesterdays". I don't know of any version of that tune that can compare.
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Nice work on an excellent tune !
"Blues Saxophone" by Dennis Taylor is a very good book with a CD of example tracks of him playing the written solos "in the style of" various blues tenor sax greats. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blues-Saxophone-Depth-Styles-Masters/dp/0634026208
Each of the 18 artists featured has a bit of biographical information and a written solo that the author says uses "some of these players' favorite licks as a launching point". In fact several of the written solos are direct transcriptions of a particular recording.
The Jimmy Forrest solo in this book is a pretty good transcription of "Bolo Blues", missing out the first and last "head" choruses and the piano solo, but including the ending.
The example tracks on the CD can be used to make a backing track by panning fully left to remove the sax and leave the backing trio.
I spotted several slight differences between your transcription and the one in the book - it might be interesting to do a direct comparison.
Rhys
"Blues Saxophone" by Dennis Taylor is a very good book with a CD of example tracks of him playing the written solos "in the style of" various blues tenor sax greats. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Blues-Saxophone-Depth-Styles-Masters/dp/0634026208
Each of the 18 artists featured has a bit of biographical information and a written solo that the author says uses "some of these players' favorite licks as a launching point". In fact several of the written solos are direct transcriptions of a particular recording.
The Jimmy Forrest solo in this book is a pretty good transcription of "Bolo Blues", missing out the first and last "head" choruses and the piano solo, but including the ending.
The example tracks on the CD can be used to make a backing track by panning fully left to remove the sax and leave the backing trio.
I spotted several slight differences between your transcription and the one in the book - it might be interesting to do a direct comparison.
Rhys
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I never saw that thread, would have for sure reacted if I had seen it!
I'm almost 100% sure that Jimmy plays his Link in 'Bolo Blues', also based on the sound of the other numbers on the 1961 album it comes from (Out of the Forrest). I have the LP and CD (which sound better than the compressed YouTube stuff posted here). For me Jimmy has a more complex and deeper sound on the Link than on the Berg (on which he actually also sounds fantastic). I"m also not sure if it's a Double Ring he played, could also be a Florida no USA.
Here is a big size picture of Jimmy and his mouthpiece, but for me it's not really clear if this is a DR or a no USA:
https://www.ft.com/__origami/servic...85f2cfcd?fit=scale-down&source=next&width=700
The rings in the shank are not really clear. The bite-plate is large (like in a NY Double Ring) and if it's orginal it's a NY DR, but it could also be a long black mouthpiece patch (not sure if they used them like that in the '40-50's).
Thanks for all the feedback. Special thanks to Mark (10Mfan). It was your post that got me interested in doing this transcription in the first place. (I decided about 30 seconds in). And thanks to Randy who helped me throughout. I never would have gotten the rhythms close to right. I learned a ton. Enjoy all. Great shelter in place shedding.
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Your transcribing effort hasn't been wasted and I think there are places where your transcription looks better than the one in the book. You also have a ready made backing track if you want to play the solo with a band.Rysonsax: Thats really funny. I have that book but haven't looked at it for years. I pulled it out. You are right. I guess I could have saved myself a lot of work
Well done anyway.
Rhys
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Great job on the transcription, Peter! Thanks for the honorable mention, but you did all the work!
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Hi,
I've got that book but can't find any solo from Jimmy Forrest. Is it another edition or a different book? Also, do you know if the transcription originally posted on here has now been removed?
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Are you certain you have the book called "Blues Saxophone" rather than Dennis Taylor's other book called "Jazz Saxophone" ? Check the links to Amazon.co.uk provided. I don't think there have been different editions of the Blues Saxophone book.
The Jimmy Forrest solo transcription starts on page 52 and it is track 13 of the CD for the former book.
Rhys
Thanks - found it!
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"Out of the Forrest"
Still have the LP.
Still have the LP.
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Thank you!
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