Category Archives: Jazz Improvisation

Michael Brecker Transcriptions Galore

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: October 22, 2009
Jaleel Shaw just posted a link on the Facebook to Michael Brecker playing Oleo, and that led to the mother lode of Michael Brecker transcriptions: http://www.michaelbreckerliverecordings.com/transcriptions.html Check out the whole site, maintained by saxophonist Louis Gerrits, obviously fanatic enough to build this wonderful catalogue. I miss Michael Brecker. It’s not right that he’s gone.
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Chris Potter solo All the Things You Are

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: August 14, 2009
A while back, Russ sent me this video (audio really) of Chris Potter playing All the Things You Are at a master class. It is mind blowing, and I’ve recently come back to it to work out what I can on my tenor: You need to a flashplayer enabled browser to view this YouTube video Today, Stef [...]
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Jazz Yoda

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: January 30, 2008
Upon an enthusiastic recommendation, I attended Barry Harris‘ weekly jazz workshop last night.  Barry is a legendary jazz pianist and fervent jazz educator who, at the age of 78, hosts a workshop every Tuesday night for musicians of all levels.  That is to say, beginners are welcome, but he goes through stuff fast and it’s [...]
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Jazz Improvisation Study #1

By Kevin Danenberg | Published: November 14, 2007
One of my main reasons for starting this blog was to share all sorts of jazz improvisation ideas. There’s not going to be any particular sequence to these studies. Some will be rather complex, others pretty mundane, probably nothing all that original. But these are all things I put through my horn, [...]
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