Despite this being my first entry in my new blog, I decided not to bore anyone with any introductions and I get right to the point of my first entry:
Recently I really got into Sonny Rollins, especially his early period, his recordings with Bud Powell, Miles Davis, but also his recordings as a leader, since 1949 through late 1950's.
In addition, I have strained my forearm tendons, so as I cannot play, I did a lot of transcribing to spend my time practicing at least with my head and ears, if not with my fingers.
Therefore I am publishing these transcriptions of Sonny Rollins that I made, hopefully they will be helpful to someone, and I am looking forward to any comments or suggestions!
In the means of working with the transcriptions, I really advise everyone to go through the recording themselves and use the according transcription only as a guidance, to be able to really catch the essence of Rollins' playing.
Sonny Rollins - Denial
Sonny Rollins - Whispering
Sonny Rollins - On A Slow Boat To China
Sonny Rollins - Newk's Fadeaway
Sonny Rollins - Dig
Sonny Rollins - Bouncin' With Bud
All of these (except the last one) can be found on the Complete Prestige Box of Sonny Rollins (Denial, Whispering, Newk's Fadeaway, Dig on CD1; On A Slow Boat To China on CD2). Bouncin' With Bud is from an earlier session from 1949 with Bud Powell, Navarro, Potter and Blakey.
Take care!
Martin
Hi! It would be great to reach your transcription of sonny's bouncing with bud. Thanks in advace
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