Saturday, May 19th, 2012

Welcome to the Transcription page!  Transcriptions are listed alphabetically by first name.  Next to the artist name and song name are some different selections.  Bb, C, & Eb are the different keys that each transcription is in.  The “Score” selection shows each chorus of an artist’s solo on a separate line so you can compare [...]

Continuing with the Aaron-Parks-love from last week’s blog post, I found a very cool jazz blog that actually has the PDF’s of ALL of the charts from Aaron’s debut record “Invisible Cinema”.  Aaron posted the link to this great blog on his MySpace blog called NextBop.com.  I highly recommend that while you’re over there getting [...]

In case you haven’t heard, Joshua Redman has a new collaborative project called the James Farm Band with Aaron Parks, Matt Penman, & Eric Harland.  News from the group’s Facebook Fan Page shows that they’ve been hard at work in the studio and are finished recording for their highly anticipated Spring 2011 release. If you [...]

This is a document that was getting forwarded around DU during my last year.  It’s a small list of very concise, but very important words of advice from Thelonious Monk.  Hope you guys enjoy and let me know if you think anything should be added.

**There has been an update to the All-State Middle School Etude for Saxophone.  I’ve made the appropriate changes below** Here are links to the GMEA website resources for All-State Band audition material for Middle and High schools. Rules & Regs Applications All-State Middle School Band - 6th through 8th Grades: Alto Saxophone (Etudes/Scales) Tenor Saxophone (Etudes/Scales) [...]