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This is, to my mind, one of the greatest solos ever recorded. PERIOD -- and I mean it! But don't take my word for it: listen to the clip, and check out the transcription, here at my blog: Harder Bop...
Michael Brecker plays Invitation: new transcription WITH sound clip on my blog!
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You transcribed That??!!!!!. Holy Toledo, batman! Anyway, Mr. Brecker has been a long-time fav. of mine, and I agree this solo is great, but, methinks, so technically brilliant, that it is lacking a certain melodic sense that I, particularly, am missing. On first listening. I imagine if I listened several times, I'd "get" it. You think?
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Thanks again for another wonderful transcription. I just read the James Carter piece again: if you ever give up playing, you could make it as a writer!
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Yes, I do! For what it's worth, my clip on the blog starts on Brecker's solo. Unheard is his lush and lovely statement of the melody, performed as a rubato tenor-guitar duet -- maybe you need to hear that to get a softening counterweight for this intense solo. I don't know: it killed me on first listen, and I've heard this so many times since I don't have any way of imagining how it strikes anybody else!
Sincerely: thank you, Andrew. I will note that if I could make as much money as a writer as I've made as a jazz saxophonist, I'd be ... homeless!
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This is a great solo. I transcribed What is This Thing Called Love from that same album a few years ago. I remember years ago these were all done in a book. This was in the 80's I think. There were a bunch of Merge solos and some 3 Quartets solos in it. I haven't seen any of them since so I'm thinking the book is out of print now.
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I believe it was a book of transcriptions by Trent Kynaston. Just looked over on Aebersold's website and Amazon, and it appears to be out of print.
Great work, Kelly!
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Wow that was great. I have been jamming along to the Version on the Jaco birthday album with Mintzer and Brecker. They both melt my face on that album. It is great to hear another great version.
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Great solo.
He does another great solo with Invitation on a Hal Galper album.
Coltrane's take on this tune is brilliant also. He begins relatively simple,
and just builds, and builds, and builds the intensity.
As I type this I can still hear his wonderful crying sound in my inner ear.
He does another great solo with Invitation on a Hal Galper album.
Coltrane's take on this tune is brilliant also. He begins relatively simple,
and just builds, and builds, and builds the intensity.
As I type this I can still hear his wonderful crying sound in my inner ear.
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yes first ive heard of this one!...invitations a tough tune! you really have to know the melody well, because the changes are tough!..and its easy to get lost,there was a thread recently which made comment of michael breckers jazz playing etc!..and this proves just how good he was!..one of the greatest!
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This solo, along with stuff from Three Quartets and some other tracks, was indeed in a Trent Kynaston book a while back -- the same series included a Phil Woods collection that had great stuff from Musique Du Bois, Live at the Showboat, and even his Just The Way You Are solo...
I remember looking at Kynaston’s transcription years ago and comparing it to mine -- there were a number of differences in rhythms and notes and, confident in my own infallibility, I considered it suspect.
However, as I note on the blog, I first transcribed this by playing an LP at half speed, and as I prepped it in the last few days using modern software, I ... had a number of revisions to make in rhythms and notes! I’m gonna have to hunt down that Kynaston book and see if he was right all along...
One thing I added to the blog: I don’t know why more folks who dig Brecker don’t know about this recording -- in part it’s because it was on an independent label with limited distribution. This was on my “I Wish They’d Release That On CD” list for a LOOOONG time before the CD finally appeared.
And now that the CD is out of print, 2 Amazon Sellers have got it for just under $50, and one wants $90 for it! Thank goodness for MP3 downloads, where it runs 9 bucks...
I remember looking at Kynaston’s transcription years ago and comparing it to mine -- there were a number of differences in rhythms and notes and, confident in my own infallibility, I considered it suspect.
However, as I note on the blog, I first transcribed this by playing an LP at half speed, and as I prepped it in the last few days using modern software, I ... had a number of revisions to make in rhythms and notes! I’m gonna have to hunt down that Kynaston book and see if he was right all along...
One thing I added to the blog: I don’t know why more folks who dig Brecker don’t know about this recording -- in part it’s because it was on an independent label with limited distribution. This was on my “I Wish They’d Release That On CD” list for a LOOOONG time before the CD finally appeared.
And now that the CD is out of print, 2 Amazon Sellers have got it for just under $50, and one wants $90 for it! Thank goodness for MP3 downloads, where it runs 9 bucks...
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It's one of my favourite recordings. Great album!!!!
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From the "Out of Print" publications section of Trent Kynaston's website:
Michael Brecker Improvised Saxophone Solos, transcribed and edited by Trent Kynaston. Columbia Pictures Pub., Inc.
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My copy is in New Zealand. I am in Europe at the present, so I cannot tell you
the exact title. It is the one by Trent however.
Great job Kelly... not that I'll be able to play this one but.. maybe someday!!
I think another great CD to transcribe would be the Twin Tenors CD w/ Brecker and Mintzer... There is a whole lot of saxophone stuff on that recording (which is also out of print)
just a thought...
cheers for sharing all your hard work...
I think another great CD to transcribe would be the Twin Tenors CD w/ Brecker and Mintzer... There is a whole lot of saxophone stuff on that recording (which is also out of print)
just a thought...
cheers for sharing all your hard work...
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Since I first heard the Lockjaw-Griffin stuff, I have a strict policy of picking up any CD featuring more than one tenor player having at it... So I gotta get this!
(And in the meantime, I'm working on something featuring Brecker and another tenor player who'll remain nameless till I get the thing up, but it KILLS!)
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