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Reader,
The first tune I recommend any aspiring jazz player transcribe is this recording of Pennies From Heaven by Stan Getz accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Trio.
I had been playing jazz for many years before I first transcribed it. My teacher told me I was being ambitious trying to transcribe Blackbird by Brad Mehldau 🤣 (which, for the record, I eventually did complete).
Also, I need to correct a mistake I made last week. I incorrectly said the blues introduction to Let There Be Love by Nat Cole was played by Bill Evans, when in fact I meant to say George Shearing. I was listening to Bill while writing the newsletter, and I just slipped up. Thank you to all 3,000 of you who wrote back to keep me honest last week.
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Today's 2-5-1
Each week I share 2 transcribed phrases, 5 ideas observed from 1 featured jazz recording. This week, we have Stan Getz accompanied by the Oscar Peterson Trio.
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Pennies From Heaven / Stan Getz
Recorded in 1958, featuring Stan Getz (tenor), Oscar Peterson (piano), Herb Ellis (guitar) and Ray Brown (bass). Who needs a drummer?
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- If you’ve taken the 7-day soloing challenged and thought to yourself “soloing with just chord tones is so basic, when will I ever use that…?” Well, check out measure two above.
- He does it again in the 3rd line of my example above, he comes right down the Dm7 chord, with some rhythm added by those 16th note passing tones.
- At 1:43, Stan does something very similar by building a line using simple chord arpeggios, but this time he includes some passing chord arpeggios in the line too.
- At 2:20, listen to how Stan really emphasizes the blue notes - Eb in our key of C. This contrasts the more diatonic section that precedes it and tells us he’s ramping things up a bit going forward.
- Can you name the tune he’s quoting at 3:06? Reply to this email, and tell me when you think it is.
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Josh Walsh
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