- #Saxsolos com jazz transcriptions of the masters series#
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“Teule’s Redemption” from One is the Other (2014) “Lennie Groove” from One is the Other (2014) “Year of the Snake” from Year of the Snake (2012) “Salt and Pepper” from Year of the Snake (2012) “Berkeley Street” from Solos: The Jazz Sessions (2011) “Murley’s in the House” from Solos: The Jazz Sessions (2011) “Ethan’s Line” from Lathe of Heaven (2014) “Sonnet for Stevie” from Lathe of Heaven (2014) “Lathe of Heaven” from Lathe of Heaven (2014) This collection includes the following transcriptions. A foreword by Kevin Sun provides the historical context of the transcriptions. Excerpts from the transcriptions are also analyzed and discussed. They offer an in-depth look at various aspects of Turner’s playing.
#Saxsolos com jazz transcriptions of the masters series#
The accompanying collection of essays are based on an extended series of interviews with Mark Turner. You can find these recordings collected here. Also included are transcriptions from various bootlegs selected for this project. This new collection of 35 transcriptions draws from across Mark Turner’s discography. Here is a breakdown of the contents of the Mark Turner Transcription and Essays from Jeff McGregor’s website: The solos, although incredibly complex, are easy to look at and read as far as the spacing and font sizes. The music staves are widely spaced with an average of eight staves to a page. The pages are nice and thick quality paper that doesn’t bleed through. It is spiral bound so the book can lay flat on a music stand or desk. The Mark Turner Transcription and Essays book, like the Chris Potter Transcription book, is a quality product. I don’t hear all the cliche licks known by every sax player, to the contrary, Mark Turner always sounds like he is striving to create something unique and original every time he plays his saxophone. That is how I view Mark Turner’s compositions and his improvisations.
#Saxsolos com jazz transcriptions of the masters free#
When you are a musician for most of your life and spend most of your free time practicing, studying and listening to music, the most attractive music is the music that is new and surprising to you. The other thing I love about Mark Turner, is that I never know what he is going to play next or where he is going to go. (bending notes, growling, repeated riffs, long loud altissimo notes, etc……) Mark Turner does this without using many of the common tools and tricks most sax player’s use to get reactions from their audience. His improvisations create a musical landscape that shifts from consonance and dissonance while painting a sonic tapestry for the listener. His tenor sax solos are beautiful, creative and original. Mark Turner’s improvisational concept can also be described this same way.
There is something aesthetic in the music that goes beyond words for me that I am enthralled by. The songs on that album convey colors and emotions as if the notes were on a musical canvas or landscape. The music is beautiful, creative and original. What I love about “Yam Yam” goes hand in hand with what I love about Mark Turner’s saxophone playing. I listened to it over and over, and now, even 20+ years later, I still name that recording as one of my choices for my top 10 favorite tenor saxophone recordings. The music on that CD was unlike any I had ever heard before. I remember getting his first CD “Yam Yam” and being really intrigued and perplexed by it. Mark Turner is an incredible tenor saxophone player that I have always found to be original and on a path all his own. I actually went to Berklee School of Music with Mark Turner in the late 80’s and even then, I would slow down nonchalantly, bend down and pretend to re-tie my perfectly tied shoelaces as I walked outside his practice room so I could hear what he was working on. These are two tenor saxophone players that have captured my attention for many decades now. If you were to gather ten saxophone players around a table and have a discussion about who the cutting edge modern tenor saxophone players of this era would be, the names of Chris Potter and Mark Turner would undoubtedly be mentioned in that discussion. Mark Turner-Transcriptions and Essays by Jeff McGregor I already reviewed the Chris Potter Transcription book, and today I will be reviewing Mark Turner-Transcriptions and Essays. For the last couple of weeks, I have been checking out two amazing transcription books by Jeff McGregor entitled Chris Potter-Transcriptions and Essays and Mark Turner-Transcriptions and Essays.
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