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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2020 9:46 am Post subject:
kehaulani wrote:
Are his note choices different than they were in later days?
Nope, similar note choices and language as his later years. I transcribed his solo on Tune Up from a live recording in 1980 and there is a lot of similar language that the two solos share. I'll give a few examples below.
This is from the 1963 video:
He plays the same thing in the Tune Up solo from 1980, just a different key:
From the 1963 solo:
From his 1980 Tune Up solo:
And here are a few ii-V7-I's where you can see similar language and line construction.
These are from the 1963 video:
These are from the 1980 Tune Up solo:
BTW, here is the Tune Up recording that the examples above came from:
Thanks for sharing, I love this recording! The crazy thing about this recording of Chet is apparently it's from 1958 which is the same year that Miles recorded the original Milestones album, so Chet didn't waste anytime incorporating this tune into his rep. Check the 18'14 mark here (btw, it's the same recording):
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