Writings & Transcriptions

Hello friends - please find here a few papers and musical transcriptions I've produced over the years.  I won't claim to be a great writer but there might be content in a few of these which could prove interesting. 

Writings

2008 - Improvisation and Spirit: The Cult of Jazz - A paper regarding the role of transcendent experience in the jazz tradition.  Draws from anthropological and ethnomusicological sources as well as bits of interviews I did with Dave Liebman, Kenny Werner, Chris Potter, and Ken Vandermark, and others. 

2008 - Joe Farrell's Moon Germs: A Jazz Master's Legacy - An inquiry into Joe Farrell's composition and improvisation and his novel use of dimished vocabulary.  Transcription and Analysis below. 

2011 - Free Musical Improvisation, Dionysus, & Nietzsche's Ontology of Becoming - Nietzsche's concepts of Dionysian music, time, and radical becoming through the lense of Free Musical Improvisation.

Transcriptions

Joe Farrell's Moon Germs (concert key) - Transcription and Analysis 

Joe Farrell's Moon Germs (Bb) - Transcription

Need to hear it?  Moon Germs on Youtube

My transcription and analysis of Chris Potter's solo on Dave Douglas' tune, The Jones from Downbeat, October 2006.  Hear The Jones on Douglas' Strange Liberation - fantastic album.

You can still buy my Chris Potter transcription book from Jamey Aebersold HERE.