Chris Potter's Tenor Solo on 'Without A Song' (Transcription) | bernie's bootlegs

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DISCLAIMER: I was about 4 beers in while doing this transcription so yes I know there are a couple silly mistakes and I am very sorry! I fixed most of them in the PDFs below... Cheers

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A world-class soloist, accomplished composer and formidable bandleader, saxophonist Chris Potter has emerged as a leading light of his generation. Down Beat called him "One of the most studied (and copied) saxophonists on the planet" while Jazz Times identified him as "a figure of international renown." Jazz sax elder statesman Dave Liebman called him simply, "one of the best musicians around," a sentiment shared by the readers of Down Beat in voting him second only to tenor sax great Sonny Rollins in the magazine's 2008 Readers Poll.

A potent improvisor and the youngest musician ever to win Denmark's Jazzpar Prize, Potter's impressive discography includes 15 albums as a leader and sideman appearances on over 100 albums. He was nominated for a Grammy Award for his solo work on "In Vogue," a track from Joanne Brackeen’s 1999 album Pink Elephant Magic, and was prominently featured on Steely Dan’s Grammy-winning album from 2000, Two Against Nature. He has performed or recorded with many of the leading names in jazz, such as Herbie Hancock, Dave Holland, John Scofield, the Mingus Big Band, Jim Hall, Paul Motian, Dave Douglas, Ray Brown and many others.

His most recent recording, Ultrahang, is the culmination thus far of five years’ work with his Underground quartet with Adam Rogers on guitar, Craig Taborn on Fender Rhodes, and Nate Smith on drums. Recorded in the studio in January 2009 after extensive touring, it showcases the band at its freewheeling yet cohesive best.

Since bursting onto the New York scene in 1989 as an 18-year-old prodigy with bebop icon Red Rodney (who himself had played as a young man alongside the legendary Charlie Parker), Potter has steered a steady course of growth as an instrumentalist and composer-arranger. Through the '90s, he continued to gain invaluable bandstand experience as a sideman while also making strong statements as a bandleader-composer-arranger. Acclaimed outings like 1997’s Unspoken (with bassist and mentor Dave Holland, drummer Jack DeJohnette and guitarist John Scofield), 1998’s Vertigo, 2001’s Gratitude and 2002’s Traveling Mercies showed a penchant for risk-taking and genre-bending. "For me, it just seemed like a way of opening up the music to some different things that I had been listening to but maybe hadn’t quite come out in my music before," he explains.

[RyanBreaker]

1:14 "Something like this" lmao

[mattgach]

RT if you're old enough to remember when it was Senator Bernie Sanders

[justinberkley]

Any transcription with "Brace Yourself" as a performance note is savage.

[christophersimard]

I wish I could be this productive while drunk

[yotambarak]

Man, your commentaries are hilarious!
And great work on the transcription!

[MFAN]

Thanks for doing all these transcriptions! They are fantastic.

[vicentenicolas]

Gracias por el trabajo. La técnica de Chris Potter es siempre abrumadora pero aquí él demuestra además una gran sensibilidad musical. No me canso de escucharlo.

[mrcubey]

I was working on this too. Sounds like in the first C7 bar he's dropping the Db and jumping right to C and then bending the note down a bit to slide into the Bb. Not sure how you'd notate it, but the subtlety in the solo is amazing.

[emans-vl]

@Bernie Sanders I fucking love your channel so much that I actually buy your transcriptions instead of transposing this to Eb myself lol. keep up the good work!

[docsaxman]

Chris Potter, Joel Frahm, these cats are amazing....and Bernie you have the best channel....I figure you must play saxophone...

[TheJayOne]

great work!
in 2:17 and 2:19 the second note is on the 'and' of 2 and not on the 2.

[Cyberus]

Nice work and an awesome solo aswell as comping.
I think in bar 14 and 15 both play III-VI (bIII) and than a long II-V over two bars into the next chorus.
What do you think?

[gillesd]

Very nice work, and excellent chorus (close to Sonny Rollins style)

[Bflatful]

Wrong chords everywhere if you hear the bass. For example first 4 bars: FMaj7 - B7 - BbMaj7 - GmC7 - Etc. Good job anyway :P

[AleksanderPaal]

Hi! Where could I get the "new real book" font you're using?

[sengroagers]

I open this video and the _first_ thing I hear is the fucking *lick*

[Horrorlink]

great work, sadly just some incorrect notes in there