The transcription of the Elvin solo is no doubt, a worthwhile exercise and will improve my musicianship but I need to think carefully about what I will be presenting come the 28th of May. He has pointed some possible pitfalls of the direction I am taking in that I have to be to careful not to do anything to narrow. I met with my project supervisor to discuss how I was doing with the project.
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Also, when playing some standards with a group yesterday, I felt that I was communicating something much more concrete and clear to the other band members (of course it is quite possible that they didn’t have a clue what was going on during my solos and it is very possible that I am full of it!). Having a sense of rhythmic counter-point as opposed to using a stock list of licks that I try to string together is, to me, much more interesting and worthwhile. So far, through my experience of applying this concept in a very precise manner, I feel like I am playing the tune when I solo rather than just chops and licks. As I continued work on the solo over the following few weeks I found that the more I adhere to singing the melody accurately, the greater a sense of intricate structure I get from the solo.
This had an almost immediate effect on how I was interpreting the musical line of the solo in that it became clear that many of the notes and phrases in the solo are phrasing with, around and in response to the melody. But I noticed a distinct difference in learning this solo when I began to sing the melody of the tune as I played each part so, for example, when learning the first bar, I continued to sing the melody notes for the first bar very accurately as I repeated the solo line of the first bar. The transcription was started as I have started other transcriptions in the past.
Three Camps for drum set - quarter note triplet fi.I have been working on the Elvin Jones solo from the tune “Juju” for several weeks.Transcription: Elvin Jones - Chasin' the Trane - 01.Three Camps for drum set - inverted quarter note t.Transcription: Elvin Jones - Chasin' the Trane - 02.From the zone: two-note coordination patterns.Transcription: Elvin Jones - Chasin' the Trane - 03.The tune is a 12-bar blues, and the tempo is about quarter note = 235. With that, here are the first six choruses of Elvin Jones's playing on Chasin' the Trane- about one minute, 14 seconds.
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It turns out that what critics say about music is not very enlightening for people trying to learn how to play it. … They seem bent on pursuing an anarchistic course in their music that can but be termed anti-jazz.” “I heard a good rhythm section… go to waste behind the nihilistic exercises of the two horns.… Coltrane and Dolphy seem intent on deliberately destroying. “At Hollywood’s Renaissance Club recently, I listened to a horrifying demonstration of what appears to be a growing anti-jazz trend exemplified by these foremost proponents of what is termed avant-garde music. Hoping to learn something, I dug this out of the stacks at the University of Oregon library, now you can just read it online: Here's a sample of that from a Downbeat column from 1962, in which Coltrane and Eric Dolphy were interrogated on their creative direction. Some critics famously called what Coltrane was doing at this time “anti-jazz.” This track was considered to be particularly offensive in that respect. There was originally some critical controversy with this album- stunningly. This tune especially I would rewind and play over and over. Two of them Coltrane Live at the Village Vanguard, and Coltrane Live at Birdland, and I would just cycle them for 6-8 hours a day. When I was living in Los Angeles, working for a messenger service, for about four months I had four cassettes in the car. I have a lot of history with this record. Hopefully the only thing that will stop me from completing it is if I hit a lot of untrancribable things as I get deeper in. I don't know if anyone will do anything with that, it doesn't matter. In the end it should be over 30 pages long. The project is to transcribe his complete >16 minute performance on Chasin' the Trane, the modern epic from John Coltrane's album Live at the Village Vanguard. I'm hoping to clean myself a little with this.Įlvin Jones was one of the supreme artists on our instrument, and one of a handful of creators I basically regard as religious figures. A little act of penance, devotion, purging, re-centering. Ending a truly bleak, shameful year- and four years- in United States history, with an ambitious transcribing project.
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