Standards : Trumpet Transcriptions With Piano Score

Rating:
Summary: Valuable and Unique...
Review: I recommend this book to all musicians trying to expand their rhythmic vocabulary, study some arranging ideas for standards, and get intimate with some of Wynton's "licks".
As a former drumset and rhythm section techniques teacher in the University of Miami's Jazz program, I have used this book with my students as a textbook to accompany the recording. There are some great rhythmic modulations to study and hear, (this is especially important because the concepts are performed as an ensemble); groupings of five and hemiola figures in Wynton's solos; and you won't believe the creativity in the rhythmic transcriptions of the piano comping. This is a valuable and unique transcription of one of the great recordings of jazz. I can only hope the people at Warner Brothers will continue this with some other great recordings (suggestion: Keith Jarrett's "The Cure".) I know some of the guys at Warner that did this transcription and they also deserve a whole lot of credit. Sure, some of the rhythmic transcription is questionable, but that is the real beauty of jazz (Can you say Joe Henderson?). There really is nothing out there like this that I am aware of.

Rating:
Summary: Valuable and Unique...
Review: I recommend this book to all musicians trying to expand their rhythmic vocabulary, study some arranging ideas for standards, and get intimate with some of Wynton's "licks".
As a former drumset and rhythm section techniques teacher in the University of Miami's Jazz program, I have used this book with my students as a textbook to accompany the recording. There are some great rhythmic modulations to study and hear, (this is especially important because the concepts are performed as an ensemble); groupings of five and hemiola figures in Wynton's solos; and you won't believe the creativity in the rhythmic transcriptions of the piano comping. This is a valuable and unique transcription of one of the great recordings of jazz. I can only hope the people at Warner Brothers will continue this with some other great recordings (suggestion: Keith Jarrett's "The Cure".) I know some of the guys at Warner that did this transcription and they also deserve a whole lot of credit. Sure, some of the rhythmic transcription is questionable, but that is the real beauty of jazz (Can you say Joe Henderson?). There really is nothing out there like this that I am aware of.