Bob Reynolds Lick

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Ok, so let's talk about the amazing saxophonist that is Bob Reynolds.  Bob is a graduate of Berklee in Boston and has since played with heavy hitters both in the pop and jazz realm.  He's got a couple of great albums out that I would highly recommend.  And, his long awaited Stablemates forum has just debuted this week.  I'll keep you posted on what it's like.  In the meantime, I found one video of him playing with John Mayer that was EXTRA appealing.  Check this out first:

In the video, there's about 20 seconds of what you might expect.  Then, at 26", Bob lays out this jaw-dropping line.  I was transcribing it and thought that I'd share with everyone to see what they thought.  I've annotated what's going on theory wise.  Hope you like it and leave your comments down below.


Transcription Page

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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 what the artist is doing over the same changes, but on different choruses.  I hope you enjoy these (and the ones to come).  If anyone has a transcription that they'd like to see up here, write the artist and song name in the comment box below.



Charlie Parker - "Au Privave": Score | Bb | C | Eb



Chet Baker - "But Not For Me": Score | Bb | C | Eb



Clifford Brown - "Blues Walk": Score | Bb | C | Eb



Lester Young - "Almost Like Being In Love": Score | Bb | C | Eb



Roy Hargrove - "Yardbird Suite":  Score | Bb | C | Eb

Aaron Parks "Invisible Cinema" Lead Sheets

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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 Aaron's charts that you check out the other stuff they have to offer.  I posted the chart of one of my favorite songs off the album below.