Category: Transcriptions

We have even more transcriptions to show off! This time our thanks goes to Maurizio Cucco for a batch of 6 Ronnie Cuber solo transcriptions. Some are from solos that are already in the repository, so there’s a really neat opportunity to compare two different people’s transcription work of the same solo.

Check them out here. Enjoy!

Not only are there 8 more transcriptions in the repository, but they are all from an incredible but lesser known baritonist, Bob Gordon. Gordon died relatively young and was not a well known figure, but his playing is wonderful.

Thanks to Christoph Beck we now have all 8 solos from the album! I think a first to have a complete album all at once, so thank you Christoph!

The transcriptions are approaching 1.5 MILLION downloads. That’s a whole lot of baritone.

A very big thank you to Matthew Karnstedt for sending in 3 new transcriptions, with quite a spread stylistically too.

There’s a new Cecily Payne transcription on “Do Nothin’ Til You Hear From Me”, a Gerry Mulligan solo on the classic “I Got Rhythm” and a new Leo Parker solo on “Blue Sails” !

That makes it about 164 transcriptions hosted here and we’re approaching 800,000 downloads! Perhaps by this site’s 30th anniversary (2029!) we can cross the 1,000,000 mark.

Please head over to the transcription repository and give these new solos a download if you want to play through them, and again thank you to Matthew and all of the other busy transcribers for sharing their work for the rest of us.

I don’t always post when there’s a new transcription now that we have over 150, but there have been a few recent entries I want to highlight.

First a neat (and fast!) Bruce Johnstone solo from a Maynard Ferguson album on the song “Superbone Meets the Badman”. Thanks to Mattew Stevenson for this one.

There’s also a new Ronnie Cuber transcription on his tune, Passion Fruit. Giovanni Contri provided this one.

And lastly, and maybe most interestingly we have our first Bob Gordon solos care of Zachary Spondike! Bob Gordon is a very under-represented baritonist with an unfortunately short career but could play the hell out of the baritone. He died awfully young in a car accident, but the recordings we have are excellent. These two transcriptions – one on “Have You Met Miss Jones” and one on “Dot’s Groovy” both come from an album with Jack Montrose. You can read what Jack wrote about Bob Gordon on his page here.

Head to the Transcriptions Repository to grab these new solos, and enjoy them.

There are two recent transcriptions added to the repository – Bastian Contreras delivered Pepper Adams‘ Falling in Love with Love from a Red Garland album, and an alternate transcription of Cecil Payne‘s solo on ‘Bringing Up Father’ from the album, ‘Patterns in Jazz’ care of Guillaume Orti. Head over to the page to have a look!

We now have over 150 transcriptions, for free, in the repository. And possibly more impressive – there are now over 500,000 downloads!

But possibly most importantly  – as of January 2024, this website has been online for 25 years! Head to the About page to read the history.

Thank you to Matthew Stevenson for sending in a new Ronnie Cuber transcription. This one is on Arroz Con Pollo from his album ‘Cubism’.

Have a listen below and then head to the transcriptions page to download a copy!

Thank you to Tom Sabin for sending in a new transcription on a Jason Marshall Solo!

This one is on “Never Stop Loving You” from Jason’s recent release, New Beginnings.

Checkout the song below, and head over to the Transcriptions page to grab a copy!