Charlie Parker - Omnibook - For E-flat Instruments Review

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(More customer reviews)Just today when someone asked how they could learn to sight read Jazz music I answered "the Onmibook". This book is a transcription of 60 songs played by Charlie Parker (the saxophone pioneer of Bebop). Each song includes the main song melody (the head), Charlie Parker's recorded solos and the chord changes. The transcriptions are written in a style consistent with modern music arrangement that makes it easy for the musician to learn a variety of the most typical patterns found in Jazz, constantly revisted and augmented to allow for a landslide of appropraite variation. The book also has the chord changes written in for each measure (which is also written in a style consistent with modern jazz transcription) so any musician playing through the book can learn to understand why certain type of notes, melodies and memorized patterns work in a variety of situations.

Where Lennie Niehaus' "Concepts for Jazz" series is essential for all Jazz students, the Omnibook is essential for all Saxophonists of an intermediate level or higher and the use of the book will continually grow with the musician.

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The Omnibook has become the book to turn to when you want to master the Bird. Includes 60 solos such as Anthropology * Au Privave (Nos. 1 and 2) * Billie's Bounce * Blues for Alice * Chi Chi * Confirmation * Constellation * Dewey Square * Donna Lee * Ko Ko * Moose the Mooch * Ornithology * Scrapple from the Apple * Shawnuff * Yardbird Suite * and more. Transcribed by Jamey Aebersold and Ken Slone. Spiral-bound, with chord symbols, metronome markings, record information, and practice suggestions.

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Horace Silver Collection: Piano (Artist Transcriptions) Review

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(More customer reviews)This book is really worth it for "Song for my Father" alone....it is the exact piano transcription written in the same key. Good selection of songs - even has the lyrics for some of them.

Recommended if you are a Horace Silver fan.

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Note-for-note piano transcriptions for 15 songs: The Cape Verdean Blues * Come on Home * Filthy McNasty * Funky Bunky * Home Cookin' * Nica's Dream * Nutville * Peace * Que Pasa * Senor Blues * Sister Sadie * Song for My Father * Soul Mates * Strollin' * The Tokyo Blues.

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The Herbie Hancock Collection (Artist Transcriptions) Review

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(More customer reviews)It happens that I have bought several transcription books, and the one that I do have for jazz piano ("Poinciana" by Ahmad Jamal) is transcribed in a very different way to the Herbie Hancock book.

Most of the time these other (=not the ones in this book) transcriptions are written such that the piano line is the primary part (1), multiple keyboards are combined to be played by one keyboard (2), the vocal line or any secondary instrument parts appear directly above the piano staffs and are so noted (3). Very easy to follow.

Not so for this collection. There are 7 transcriptions in 68 pages, and they are all arranged something like: Piano Intro, Melody, Trumpet Solo, Sax Solo, Piano Solo. It did have the meatier parts of the piano solos, but none of the piano line that was played underneath the solos of the secondary instruments (and in most of the songs here, the secondary instruments solo first). And for that matter, it would have been useful for the saxophone player so that these songs could be PLAYED as written and the solos for the secondary parts wouldn't have to be improvised or re-transcribed. "Watermelon Man,"for example (a 7 minute song), was castrated down to 4 pages and none of the piano solo was written down after the final statement of the head. There was even a notational error in that piece (the saxophone solo was noted as a piano solo).

This book would have been a million times more useful if the transcribers had just written down the piano line note for note all the way through and then included an extra staff on top to detail the secondary instrument solos. It would have used several more pages, but it would have been worth it at least for clarity.

Metronome marks are also missing for EVERY SINGLE SONG. It is not that much trouble to go back and calculate the metronome marks with a stop watch, but how difficult would it have been to do that as a transcriber?

This book is worth about $5 for a second hand purchase.

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One of American music's most gifted and eclectic artists, Hancock's talent as a pianist and composer is highlighted in these 8 note-for-note solo piano transcriptions of his performances. Includes: Autumn Leaves (Les Feuilles Mortes) * Butterfly * Cantelope Island * Dolphin Dance * Maiden Voyage * 'Round Midnight * Speak like a Child * and Watermelon Man, plus a biography.

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