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I started working on this solo the last year!
Bad jokes aside this is easily my favourite solo that has ever been recorded and it really means the world to me.
It just never fails to amaze me how Bird in 1942 at 22 years old could conceive such beauty and perfection, this solo really has everything: beautiful meaningful motifs, intricate lines, beautiful language, irony, very researched and deep quotes (Dardanella), rhythm, tone and mostly heart, he’s really singing his soul out.
I’ll keep coming back to this solo every day and hopefully I’ll understand better the genius of Charlie Parker.
Thank you Bird ??
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01-05-2025 07:01 AM
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Wow, top quality playing by a top quality player.
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Bravissimo Andrea, great job! I checked out a couple of videos on your channel and would recommend others do the same. Thanks
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Thank you so much Peter
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Thank you so much!
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Woah, that's a long solo! Don't think I'd have the patience to transcribe all of it.
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I wouldn’t have the chops to play it if I did
Originally Posted by Mick-7
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very nice. this is still one of my favourite youtube videos:
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I think you're being humble.... Originally Posted by pamosmusic
He did say: "I started working on this solo the last year!" - which could mean he worked on it for about a year.
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Outstanding work.
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No, I actually started working on this since the last part of December actually.
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I see there are quite a few transcriptions of this solo on YouTube, is this one of them? Originally Posted by AndreJazzBenson
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Assuming they’re correct then this would be all of them, no? Originally Posted by Mick-7
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zoinks. That’s quick. Originally Posted by AndreJazzBenson
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Didn't look closely but saw transcriptions by people who played various instruments: saxophone, clarinet, guitar - seems to be a very popular solo, might be in print too. Originally Posted by pamosmusic
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sorry but I don’t really read music, I mean I do but I tend to really get things done quickly if I transcribe things myself by ear, in fact in this solo I didn’t write down a single note, I think it’s a very essential skill to master, aural memory and being able to hear all the details. Originally Posted by pamosmusic
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That's awesome. Originally Posted by AndreJazzBenson
Man I've learned one or two pretty tricky ones, but nothing this intense. And I have to write everything down. Sometimes just because I want to be able to use it with students, or go back later and work on it again. But with longer or trickier transcriptions, it just takes me a really long time to learn them. I transcribe WAY faster than I can learn what I transcribe.
(by the way -- I was just joking with Mick that, since they're transcribing the same solos, then presumably all the transcriptions would be more or less the same, assuming no one messed them up).
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Hi matey, hope you are well. Great work! Love that solo. Where are you playing these days? Originally Posted by AndreJazzBenson
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First I want to say that I greatly admire what you have done. The sound is excellent, the fluidity is perfect and the result makes me understand that you are a great Jazz musician.
But (I don't want to be polemical) I ask: would you be able to play this solo without having Charlie Parker playing under it?
I mean playing the solo on a backing track with piano, bass and drums without sax?
Almost all the musicians I see on YouTube and Instagram play the solo that they have transcribed together WITH the soloist......this is very beautiful and difficult but I believe that to demonstrate that they have truly "absorbed" a certain solo should be played on a backing track without the soloist.
Ettore
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I mean … I don’t know the answer to this but I have to imagine he could. You couldnt execute this at all without an incredible amount of practice. It would have to be absolutely automatic in the muscle memory. Something simpler maybe you could play on that more superficial level. I’ve learned some stuff like Chet baker that I’ve been able to play with a few passes through and probably couldn’t have played without the recording. Something like this, no. Originally Posted by equenda
Also playing it along with the recording is usually the primary purpose of a project like this, right? Articulation etc
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Personally, I'd say that this is an unnecessary hoop to jump through - unnecessary because it's evident from playing along with the original recording note for note that the guy already has it under his fingers, I really don't think there's any more to prove. Probably the next step would be to turn ideas from the solo into soloing vocabulary... Which for all I know, Andre is already doing. Originally Posted by equenda
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Charlie Parker had great ideas--like the way you have studied and played this.
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hey Christian, nice to see you on here, not much work these days being honest, I do have a regular gig on Sundays at this wine bar called Aperivino in Belsize Park but not much more than that I’m afraid. Originally Posted by Christian Miller
Would love to play together again soon man!
I’ll be doing my album launch at pizza express Dean street on May 19th though, and a few other dates in London as a short release tour.
how about you man?
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ciao Ettore, Originally Posted by equenda
thank you for your compliments! It’s far from perfect, it’s getting better though after I posted it!
yes I can do that, and that has become my warmup, so I do it before I start to practice! No backing of bird just drums or a really boring I real backing track.
I posted with the Bird playing in the background because it’s more immediate for everyone.
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Oh I'm good thanks! I hear you about gigs. Originally Posted by AndreJazzBenson
I'll stick that in the diary. Feel free to spam me about gigs, I'm meaning to get out to more stuff this year.
Hopefully catch up soon. Are you going to the Adrien Moignard Jazz Cafe thing on 19th Jan? My mate Marcus is playing bass with him, don't know if you know him?
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