Relaxin' at Camarillo Transcriptions

[scooby]

I have transcribed Charlie Parker and Wardell Gray's solos on Relaxin' at Camarillo taken from Bird's Complete Savoy and Dial Recordings. I have transcribed all 4 takes.

Over the next few weeks, I will post the transcriptions to my website. To get the ball rolling, I have posted the solos from the Master take this week:

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

Enjoy!

-- Scooby

[AllenLowe]

always interesting - one thing I noticed was how schematic Joel Frahm's Giant Steps solo is - that's a tough tune, but his harmonic choices were surprisingly ordinary, at least in my opinion -

whereas what one finds with Charlie Parker solos is how harmonically abstract he can be - how oddly chromatic, yet completely logical on some of his note choices (particularly in the way he so ingeniously resolves them) -

with Frahm I think it's an issue of how preditable so much post-Trane playing has gotten. Others may disagree.

Edited May 6, 2010 by AllenLowe