"Thelonious in Action!" features some of Johnny Griffin's strongest recorded efforts. 1 - Coming on the Hudson - Monk's Voicings There's always a method to Monk's madness.Įx. Monk plays them throughout the duration of Griffin's solo, as well as on his own. Likewise, the B-section - with its 2/4 bar on the end - feels like:ġ23 1 / 23 12 / 123 1 / 23 - or 2-bars of 3/4, a bar of 2/4 and two more of 3/4.Īs it is actually written in 4/4, this breakdown is only to show where the accents fall. If the 5-bar A-section isn't unconventional enough for the period, the melodic accents and harmonic rhythms give the illusion that this tune might actually be in something other than 4/4, as given in the time signature.ġ2 34/ 123 1 / 23 12 / 1234 / 1234 - in other words, a bar of 4/4, followed by 2-bars of 3/4, a bar of 2/4 and 2-bars of 4/4. This example, as well as the examples of Griffin's tenor solo below, are all in concert key. 90, Thelonious Monk Classics), is a notation graphic of Monk's piano voicings, which reveal how the tune is constructed, as well as what Johnny Griffin was working with for his solo. 1 below (from Hal Leonard's Jazz Play-Along vol. It's also noticeably devoid of any real ii-V-I harmonic resolutions.Įx.
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Each A- section is 5-bars long, with the bridge, or B- section, being 3 bars of 4/4, plus 1 bar of 2/4.
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My wife always asks me why I have to practice so much? Well, it’s because of young guys like Sam who remind us all that we need to practice! Thanks for the great solo and inspiration! Feel free to leave any thoughts or comments you might have in the comments section below this post after you pick yourself up off the floor!."Coming on the Hudson" sports a quirky 19-bar, AABA song form. He also has a great CD recently released called “Force Field” and an older CD of standards called “Out in the Open” that you can check out! Also, do yourself a favor and go to this page from his website with a Slow Blues on it! You can definitely tell Sam has studied the lines of John Coltrane right? I also have a few other transcriptions of Sam Dillon’s solo here. If you want to check out more from Sam Dillon you can read Sam’s bio here on his website. Well done guys! This pandemic better end soon or all these great jazz players in isolation will convert every tune from the great American songbook to 400+ tempos and random odd meters just to keep themselves entertained! I had to really hone in on Yosuke’s bass notes and actually work backward for the last 12 bars of the solo.
I think I came pretty close in transcribing it. The second page of this solo was especially hard to transcribe because Sam was laying so far behind the beat on some of these lines that it was difficult sometime to tell what note was “supposed” to be on one.
I will warn you now that if high speeds scare you, you might want to put on your seatbelt before pushing the play button on the video below (some motion sickness pills might help also….).
For some unknown reason, Sam Dillon and the bass player Yosuke have decided that their purpose in life while in isolation is to play Cherokee as fast as humanly possible. It’s just a fact of life that if you lock a jazz musician in a room in isolation or quarantine, they will not survive without a clear unfathomable goal and musical purpose.
Believe it or not, this is Cherokee at 400 beats per minute. Here is another insane tenor sax solo by Sam Dillon.
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