I have had many people email and comment asking me if I have the music notation (a transcription) for this improvisation above in the video...well I do now ! - CLICK ABOVE - to get it!
All the notes in the video above are written out for you as sheet music. Then watch the video over and over to help you learn it.
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I do not own the copyright for this song. © 1959 Jazz Horn - Sony/ATV - I am improvising on five chords and modes in the style of this awesome tune.
I have always loved this tune. I wanted to try to capture the space the tune represents in my improvisation and share it with you all. It was a weird experience transcribing yourself playing. I took the time out over Covid-19 to venture into this improvisation/piece I recorded a few years back for a week.
I would like to point out that this is my version of 'Flamenco Sketches' by Bill Evans/Miles Davis. I have changed the 2nd chord to Eb-7 instead of Ab7sus as I like the root movement and sound of Eb Dorian a little better.
Wikipedia says: "Flamenco Sketches" is a jazz composition written by American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis and pianist Bill Evans. It is the fifth track on Davis's 1959 album Kind of Blue and an innovative experiment in modal jazz. The track features Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Cannonball Adderley, Paul Chambers, Jimmy Cobb and Bill Evans. The piece has no written melody, but is rather defined by a set of chord changes that are improvised over using various modes. Each musician separately chose the number of bars for each of the modal passages in his solo. Davis gets credit for the song form, but Evans is credited with the opening 4-bar vamp over Cmaj7 and G9sus4, which is the opening theme to his ballad improvisation "Peace Piece". Because of the presence of this vamp, "Flamenco Sketches" is usually played as a ballad.
The five modes used in "Flamenco Sketches" are as follows:
C Ionian (natural major scale)
A♭ Mixolydian (Major with a minor 7th)
B♭ Ionian
G Harmonic Minor over D Phrygian Dominant (alternates over bass notes D and E♭)
G Dorian
This version by Greg Lloyd is a Live solo piano improvisation on the tune "Flamenco Sketches" written by Bill Evans & Miles Davis from the album 'A Kind of Blue" by Miles Davis. I have always loved this tune.
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Hope you enjoy it.
Take it easy,
Greg.
