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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...
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!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?
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!if you ever give up playing, you could make it as a writer!
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.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.
What's the name of the book?I have the Trent Kynaston book
From the "Out of Print" publications section of Trent Kynaston's website:What's the name of the book?
My copy is in New Zealand. I am in Europe at the present, so I cannot tell youWhat's the name of the book?
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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!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)