Wardell Gray Transcription

[scooby]

I have added Wardell Gray's solo on Pennies From Heaven to my website:

http://scooby-sax.com/transcriptions.aspx

It has been issued a few time on CD. It's under Wardell's name as Live at The Haig or as Live in Hollywood. It's also under Hampton Hawes's name as Memorial.

It's also available on YouTube:

Enjoy!

- Scooby

[AllenLowe]

Scooby - I love that transcription of Wardell's Pennies From Heaven, thanks for doing those - a lot of very classic bebop moves. Only suggestion I would make is at the beginning (and I think in a few other places) is that instead of an eighth rest and two sixteenths, you use an eighth note triplet with the first note of the triplet deleted - to me that's closer to the feel on a figure like that -

Edited September 14, 2011 by AllenLowe

[scooby]

Scooby - I love that transcription of Wardell's Pennies From Heaven, thanks for doing those - a lot of very classic bebop moves. Only suggestion I would make is at the beginning (and I think in a few other places) is that instead of an eighth rest and two sixteenths, you use an eighth note triplet with the first note of the triplet deleted - to me that's closer to the feel on a figure like that -

Allen,

Thanks for checking out the transcription and for your comments. Rhythmic notation can be the most challenging part of transcription. I often go back and forth trying to decide what written rhythm best captures what was played. In the end, the recording is the final authority -- playing along with the recorded track to capture the rhythmic, phrasing, articulation, etc. nuaunces.

- Scooby