That intro was tight !! 🤟🎹

To paraphrase Chick Corea, “ you know whose solos don’t get highlighted that much for transcription? Miles Davis. And I think it’s a great study, especially the lyrical solos where he uses a lot of space. There are great lessons to be learned there.”

Ellis Marsalis wasn’t into Theolonious Monk at first. Then he heard Monk’s solo on this tune.

i just started the jazz piano beginners course 4 days ago and this feels like a dungeon i wildly unprepared stumbled into.

Really excellent lesson in listening to the nuance and detail. The difference between OK and great. Thanks Peter.

You guys are killing it. There's like a million jazz tutorial KZfaq channels, and the content you put out is consistently of a higher quality than pretty much anyone else. Thanks fellas!

Such a great solo! I really liked this breakdown. When I learned it, I went ahead and learned the vibraphone and piano solos at the same time. I found it really helpful to compare the approach of three great players on the same tune.

YES! We do enjoy this! A masterclass! Thanks!

Excellent session, love the intro/outro & solo analysis!

Love the solo breakdown format!

So so great! Love this and would be so curious what other solos you find important to break down in this way. Yes more please.

Brilliant. Fabulous to hear someone with great ears picking up the nuances.

Very enjoyable following the notation. Great insights, too!. Very easy to follow.

Right on time! Was looking for a solo for this month

A phrase may be a better term than a lick. Lovin this session. Tom

Yes more of this please ! Love all the detail articulation scales used. How to translate a trumpet solo to piano Fantastic!

Great segment!

This is so helpful... PLEASE make more videos like this!!!!

Incredible solo! Thx!

I'm guitarist and always learn a lot from you guys, this was awesome, thanks for sharing.

Great Peter ! The intonation of every note is making the difference in a great solo. Studying intonation is easier when slowing down a bit the tempo. On the guitar you have bends, pull off, slides to help you to get as close as possible to a trumpet. Miles is the greatest ! I ear well the accent on the up beats also. I ear-wrote the bass part first, then try to write some solo parts, and indeed the notation of music is not really telling you how to play the notes. I have work for weeks, month ... a life time. Thanks !

This is wonderful, Peter. This solo seems to have the essence of Mile's vocabulary. Although it truly speaks (sings) for itself, it is wonderful and enlightening to hear the solo through your ears and eyes!

This is fantastic video. Really appreciate your deep dive into the subtleties of not only the note choices (much of which is "over my head") but especially the note shaping. I play harmonica, in my 51 st year and was full-time player by age 20 but left music as a career full time. I started in the mid 1970's in Bluegrass Bands, was able to play with some Hall of Fame players and opened for some people like Doc Watson on both coasts. I of course have always played blues but did have a Swing Dance, Jazz, R&B band for 10 years. I have played with many fully realized "Jazz Cats" who have played with people like Duke E. Basie, Ray Charles, Maynard Ferguson, etc. but in my own playing am much more on the blues side of Jazz.......tunes like Freddie Freeloader, Cold Duck Time, Blue Skies, One O'Clock Jump, etc. are more in my lane. I will learn Jazz Standard heads on Chromatic Harp but prefer more modal playing for soloing (I have friends who can hang with Jazz standards in all 12 keys, etc. on only Chromatic harmonica, following after people like Toots Thielman). I have adapted many tunes by horn players like David Sanborn, Koz, Marienthal, Maceo, etc. for harmonica. For harmonica players and blues it is Little Walter where we dig into the subtleties of note attack and phrasing but I listen to all instruments, including your channel, to see what may soak in by osmosis even if I do not understand all the theory. I agree though that going completely inside a solo like you are doing here is so beneficial. Thanks again for you work.......I forward your videos to piano players I know often.

I very much appreciate breaking down a solo like this. Great ear training, and the perfect reminder about singing when you're working on a transcription to get all the nuance and inflection. Great reminder to shoot for the "A" range (about 90%) because as a perfectionist, I trip myself up when I try to record transcriptions. 🤪 Keep 'em coming, Peter!

Great stuff❤❤

That was super fun…and with my extremely limited facility I can kinda follow along…thank U!

It’s all (well, a lot) about the “inner” phrasing! Thanks Peter, would definitely love to see/hear more transcriptions through your lens! Get well soon Adam 😊

It is interesting how I never seem to learn the lesson of Miles Davis: He is a giant. Yet, so glad I get to discover this over and over again. Amazing.

Real inspiring, gonna shed this

Great stuff

I like figuring out Miles Davis things. I enjoyed your analysis of the Miles Davis solo on Bag's Groove take one. You dealt with the notes/scale/chord/theory stuff thoroughly AND you took time to really dig in to the phrasing/dynamics/note duration details. Well done!

Its summer and all i do is repeat the winter solos i learned. Now i have to go to work again... Thanks alot😂

Oh my God, memories are flooding through me, I haven’t looked at this solo since 1991! 😍🥹🥲 This is sparking all kinds of cellular memory ✨🤯🤩

Loved, loved, loved this analysis. If the show only did solo breakdowns like this and the occasional album review for fun, it would be fantastic.

also check out "Milt Jackson on Bag's Groove - the FIRST jazz vibraphone solo you should learn!" on Tim Collins channel.

Damn! That opening!

For me this is a timely video as I'm currently in a cognitive miasma about how to modify standard notation to markup the intricacies of wind instruments, which probably started after listening to Beyonce's new album on repeat and getting giddy on the ability of scoops, resonance and dynamics to subtly alter the quality of otherwise elegantly simple melodic motifs. Even for piano, I think standard notation might fail to elegantly render the plurality of motions the hands can employ to create jazz voices like these, as well as the acrobatic but logical motions required by classical composers (I'm obsessed with Liszt right now too, whose music gifts the simplicity of its form only after slaving through the yoga of decoding a Babel of quavers). I have always loved jazz but never knew where to start with "the Greats", so I am thankful to find a single solo that will teach me everything!

...loved the C. McBride interview/ discussion, thanks

what stand out for me, like all Miles, is his use of space - pausing between ideas. and his commitment to melody; a blues phrase in bar 9 to F in 10, because of the idea rather than the chord. and bar 11 with the Eb, turning away from the obvious E to F

PLEASE have peter play the intro more often!!!

Yes please 😊

Can't wait to see you guys in Milwaukee, dinners on me

This is the sh*t! More of this pleez.

Peter just casually stole Dan's water bottle...

Peter: Your enthusiasm is infectious. Do some more of these.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1945">32:25</a> That's funny because I was thinking I kinda liked the earlier lines a little bit more, too. I think those were the most memorable for many other people as well. Plus the novelty effect of the 1st chorus being the 1st time we heard it, and by the next time around we're already experts (not really experts, but that's a mental tendency I'm always up against. It's a variety of taking familiar things for granted). Thanks for this breakdown - that was really in-depth.

It's pretty funny, because this is the only jazz solo what I transcribed and learnt several times since I startad to play on different instruments and different levels of understanding :D

Great

Looking for something new to transcribe! Thanks!

i always loved this solo, take 2 is just as good

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1200">20:00</a> Probably no piano underneath solo because Thelonious was busy dancing to Miles' solo.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1383">23:03</a> Trumpet players when their band leader tells them to play in tune: "I'm just putting 'a bit of stank' on the note".

My man walked back that title like a bassline

Hello Peter and Adam from Turkiye! Thanks for having these videos. I like to learn a bit more about Jazz and discovered your channel. The only problem is it is very hard to understand which video should i watch first. I think it would be nice if there is a video to show an index about an order to watch. Actually if you pinned that anyone can see and know where to start!

And this is just take 1! His solo on take 2 is just as good imo !

that intro!!!!!!

Intro was smooth … better than the original…

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1601">26:41</a> I think it's melodically implied but not actually played. So I would just put a bracket around a stem without the notehead or accidental.

I have been always wondering what this “AHH” signifies 😆

Miles Davis played a concerto on a single note.

definitely agree that "lick" is overused

Adam who? Nice breakdown. Do it again on a Dexter Gordon please.

Please do a "What Makes This Album Great" on Erykah Badu's "Baduizm"! Ive been listening to it a lot and it is so great.

Wow bro, the opening... is there a situation for the notes?

At last Peter plays intro live!) What's the name of this track btw?

i need to learn that intro. does anybody have the sheet music?

I want to learn the melody to every tune I know, as a bass player, but it's difficult! Any tips how to do that properly?

🎹☕️🎵yes

Miles's solo on Trane's Blues is equally as lyrical & "perfect", in my opinion.

I'm tired of musical nerds trying to "decode" the harmony rather than listening and learn how to play. The jazz was originally transmitted by oral communication, that's how the old cats learned how to play. Thanks Peter you are a master !!

I agree, I don’t much care for ‘lick’. Also don’t care for ‘groove’ as a noun. Somehow sound a bit self-congratulatory when they should just be matter of fact descriptors.

The solo sounds like Miles was improvising all note by note without 'licks'.

Miles said some weird stuff, but all of it was the truth. He said "It's not what you play, it's what you don't play". I could not agree more! Don't play too many notes or add nonsense like too many other players did, quality over quantity. But the most important thing is that silence is more important than sound! Miles sound had great phrasing, and the spaces between the notes gave it a sound of another world or outer space feeling. That reminds me of a song I love by Jaki Byard (another great soloist). It is called "There Are Other Worlds".

This dude🔥🥹👍🏾💯

According to Apple Music, Monk and Miles had tension in their relationship, which is shown in Monk not comping for Miles on this song.

You need to play a duet with your boy Luka Doncic next video.

'Got more?

Yes. Do something like this again. Solo suggestion? How about Lester’s solo on this: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bM6KiNOlzNq2XYU.htmlsi=5FsHSPZqhmiOSzar

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The Intro is amazong, what is The name of this song?

Miles solo sounds like the solo he would take after listening to Monk. There is a lot of Monk in there. One criticism: Miles plays some triplet phrases that struggle to find the groove. Painful for me to listen to.

I thought it was going To be Monk's Solo. Monk's solo was better.

Sorry, not a fan of this solo. To me his footprints is the best.

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