Transcriptions & Recordings

Miles Davis: Bye Bye Blackbird
Transcription - link
Recording - mp3 link

Bill Evans: Autumn Leaves
Transcription - link
Recording - YouTube link

Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings
Transcription - link
Recording - YouTube link

Bill Evans: My Foolish Heart
Transcription - link
Recording - YouTube link

John Coltrane: Stella by Starlight
Recording - YouTube link
Transcription in YouTube video

Bill Evans: Stella by Starlight
Transcription - link
Recording - mp3 link

Sydney Bechet: Blue Horizon
Transcription - link
Recording - mp3 link

Miles Davis: My Funny Valentine
Transcription - link
Recording - mp3 link

Bill Evans: Peace Piece
Transcription - link
Recording - mp3 link

Listening Assignment 112

1. Count Basie: Jumping at the Woodside — Link

2a. Miles Davis: So What — Link
2b. Miles Davis: Seven Steps To Heaven — Link

3a. Bessie Smith: St Louis Blues — Link
3b. Ella Fitzgerald: You'd Be So Nice To Come Home To — Link
3c. Billie Holliday: He's Funny That Way — Link

4a. Duke Ellington: C Jam Blues — Link
4b. Duke Ellington Concerto for Cootie — Link
4c. Duke Ellington: Mood Indigo — Link

5. Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker: Shaw 'Nuff — Link

6. Charlie Parker: Parker's Mood — Link

7. Louis Armstrong: West End Blues — Link

Transcription Assignment 2: Miles Davis, Sonny Rollins and John Coltrane

My Funny Valentine: Audio shared via email. View Transcription here

Blue Seven by Sonny Rollins: Listen and View Transcription

So What: Listen and View Transcription

Readings:

Robert Walser - Out of Notes: Signification, Interpretation, and the Problem of Miles Davis

Gunther Schuller - Sonny Rollins and the Challenge of Thematic Improvisation

Rich Pellegrin - Schenkerian versus Salzerian Analysis of Jazz

Steve Larson - Schenkerian Analysis of Modern Jazz: Questions about Method

Bill Evans Transcription Assignment

Bill Evans: Autumn Leaves

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r-Z8KuwI7Gc

Bill Evans: My Foolish Heart

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-jsW61e_-w&list=RDMM&start_radio=1&rv=qbaYvRsdi0s

Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEqosjpt45c

Miles Davis: My Funny Valentine (From In Concert, Philharmonic Hall 1964)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XdrAzpYdOYs

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Bill Evans: My Foolish Heart (From Waltz for Debby) - Transcription (Also in the Omnibook)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HIIF8hf9Xo

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Stella by Starlight - Original Soundtrack from "The Uninvited"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dudvs8q26SQ

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John Coltrane: Stella by Starlight (from the Miles Davis Quintet Recording)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ap35sZYW6Hs

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Jens Larsen: Stella By Starlight - Analysis of the Tune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_2evHRTr5rE

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Jens Larsen: All The Things You Are - Analysis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAnT_wi2WJY

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Bill Evans: How My Heart Sings (from Trio '65) (Transcribed in Bill Evans Omnibook)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GEqosjpt45c

Jazz Links

Transcription Assignments