Sonny Rollins Moritat a.k.a Mack The Knife ( Saxophone Colossus ) - Transcribed by Jacob thomas

[@DevelopedPond]

Absolutely legendary solo

[@samswank]

Pretty straightforward when you watch it, and inspiring genius when you hear it. Great transcription, thank you!

[@mariposapeachfuzz]

This song never fails to put me in a good mood! :)

[@laurenhoward2888]

bar 32, the half note Eb comes in on beat 3, not in the next bar, so you can eliminate the 2 half note rests

[@kwonms2687]

잘듣고 갑니다 Thank you so much I like to subscribe

[@selilelbi8342]

What intetpratation ❤

[@gerrycappuccio4186]

Bravo ! Great transcription ! Thank you JACOB !

[@DangerDancer69]

the part starting at 2.52 is quintuplets, and they are quite in time. (ten beats to a bar)

[@JanM351531351]

I don't think Sonny ever plays out of time :)

[@Jetoregonian]

I'm glad you liked it. Sorry, I have yet to transcribe Stan Getz Autumn Leaves.

[@leftyodoul]

To hell with genres - this is transcendent music

[@berenjenamatelunar3189]

You have just unlocked a new genre congrats :) jajaja just joking

[@BrianJoeSandy]

Thanks for that. You wouldn't happen to have Stan Getz Autumn Leaves would you :-)

[@samatrixsam]

Great job man. Can you post the chords too?

[@adithyasriram633]

Bouncin with bud quote at 2:30?

[@giovanniroviglione9307]

is it possible to have the pdf with also the chords?

[@AljoniMusiCo]

Good job here. So many of Sonny's note slides, bending and the like are hard to capture--notation wise.

[@casbont]

Another bust by the Jazz Police. Did you write the manual on how to learn music?

[@madogblue]

Man, I wish there was a way to print this out!

[@samatrixsam]

print screen on windows or use grab on Mac. Bit of a balls ache but.....

[@edwardmacartney1406]

samatrixsam could photograph from te screen?

[@samatrixsam]

Edward Macartney

[@samatrixsam]

Yeah, i did a screen print and it sort of worked thanks. Playing it is a bit harder though ha!!

[@Cmoorebuttz]

@@tjalf224 do you still have this print out?

[@troelsbrgger3179]

Thanks! And to the nitpickers: This is not classical music! So figure it out for your self and play your own version and learn something from THAT

[@vladie1234]

hi hats used on this?

[@SoaringTrumpet]

Good call. It threw me off that suddenly those measures, as notated, were going by at twice the speed since the triplets should be closer to 8th notes, not quarters. But you rightly point out that triplet feel is incorrect either way, it's groups of 5 notes every 2 beats.

[@normanspurgeon5324]

Thanks for this- some changes would be nice-

[@JPLSAX]

Very good sound. I do like it, solo is fantastic as well. I would like to learn from you. I play saxophone tenor, may I get a copy of this music score. thanks. JP

[@tjalf224]

For PDF: [e-mail]

[@nosmelc1001]

thanks

[@Thouveninpascal]

Bar 122 and six bars after , are you sure about the rhythm? If you picked up with a sequencer, it sould have played it with a rhythm section, I think the phrase is twice quicker; Rollins was a great specialist of "eighth note triplets". The great advantage of the sequencer is to hear what we transcribe.

[@plokun4219]

Que rico este solo

[@jeffreyalidochair]

1:22 PANIC! AT THE DISCO

[@jaredkhan8743]

Sebastian Ramirez I'm pretty sure he knows that. It's just that that particular phrase is exactly like a phrase in A Death of a Bachelor

[@ruimarquespinto7242]

May I have the pdf. Mr Thomas?

[@martombs]

También me gusta este arreglo. Encontré estas notas (debajo )en una página del programa por la edición de partituras. Usted será capaz de adaptar a cualquier tecla. Lo siento por mi español, pero esto no es mi lengua materna. Pero estoy aprendiendo que :-) musescore.com/user/356811/scores/305611#

[@ShuLLeRsax]

Конечно хорошо все это.. но что то не точно!!

[@mortweiss3151]

Beautiful!!!!!!! Mort Weiss-----2 bad the cat cant play like this 2-day--he was great now he's rich$$ Mort Weiss SMS JAZZ

[@impeter3719]

chords!

[@vova47]

Great Jazz...(:))

[@marcomastrototaro3788]

Attenzione ci sono errori di trascrizione: es battuta 32 33 troppe pause. Verificare

[@johnnywesleysaxophone]

0:51

[@lorenzoj.fuentes7431]

No se puede cortar así la música 😬

[@SoaringTrumpet]

As DangerDancer69 and themadtrombonist pointed out a couple of years ago, 2:50 is completely off. It's 5 notes every 2 beats, not 3 every 2 beats (quintuplets, so 10 notes to a bar). Please put a note in the video for people to read, or update that section of your transcription. I am not here to nitpick, but it's incorrect and misleading to any players looking for how this solo is played. Notes are right, but rhythm not.

[@ruimarquespinto7242]

could you make it, because the author are not listen to you, if I was professional I will do it. Because is important to have a forum youtube like this to improve our music skills. thanks for your note.

[@samswank]

I looked at some of your transcriptions and marveled at how accurate they are. Very impressive!

[@rinahall]

I just listened to a 10h European podcast radio show on Sonny Rollins (yes, 10x 1h, covering 1951-2001 !!!). My opinion of Rollins is that it seems very overrated to me. First of all as a player, he does not seem to me better than Johnny Griffin, Stitt, Roland Kirk, Phil Woods, Lateef ... but enjoys a much more important reputation ... and unjustified in my opinion. Ok he plays well, but not better than the musicians I mentioned. In terms of composition, he did not compose anything, everyone knows that St Thomas is a Caribbean folklore already recorded by Randy Weston in 1955 under the title Fire Down There. His other compositions from the 50s ... well, Oleo, Airegin etc ... this can in no way be compared to the compositions of Trane, Bird, Monk or Shorter ... also, his playing and his sound are terribly degraded after 1966 (36 years). It seems that he was traumatized by the arrival of Ornette, Trane, Ayler ... In the 60's he tried to be more free than Ayler, more calypso / blues than Ornette, and more mystical than Trane, but he didn't. did not succeed. Then in the 70s / 80s he tried to be funky, disco ... with really ridiculous and cheesy results ... Did he want to be funkier than James Brown himself? Also, in the radio show they say that he was paid current $ 300,000 for himself to record the Nucleus album (so listen to the result !!!!), and that, for his concerts, his financial claims were unrealistic, only the big festivals could afford it. He played with the Stones but didn't want to go on tour with them because, according to Jagger himself, he wanted too much money! I mean, I'm not making anything up here. In my opinion, he should have remained what he was before, a disciple of Bird at the Tenor, and quit at the age of 40 to leave a quality job, and without trying to follow fashion. Thank you for not insulting me because I have documented myself on Rollins and I like to have constructive discussions without being attacked on my person.

[@IRACEMABABU]

Bravo ! You clearly understood something essential : you'll never be famous as a saxophonist, and what's left to you as the unique chance to get some notoriety is trying to become the stupidiest commentator about Sonny Rollins. I must admit that you're gifted in that area ! ...LOL

[@themadtrombonist]

So the point of doing a transcription is to figure out what someone did in a solo if that's what you're transcribing. It doesn't do you a lot of good to slap a "played out of time" bracket over the measures you can't figure out and post it to KZbin. Finish your homework before you expect the internet to pat you on the back.

[@ChopinDolphy]

It's quintuplets by the way. Fucking Sonny man....

[@baileyayyy5085]

Yeah fuck this guy for putting the notes out there for free! He should have done more! Why should I have to put in any effort?

[@stevesharptrumpet]

We should all do our own transcriptions! He's saying the "out of time" bracket is likely missing something important and as such, it's not as helpful (To Jacob) as it potentially could be.

[@JanM351531351]

No transcription can capture all aspects of the music, even more so with Sonny Rollins who is a master of expression & phrasing. If you planned on just reading this without doing any listening to play it *exactly* like the record, then you are a massive idiot. Transcriptions are guidelines, not written truth. Though I must say Sonny Rollins never ever plays out of time.

[@EnlightenedRogue24]

Says . . . the trombonist. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

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