Re: Billie's Bounce Solo by George Benson

reed ( (no email) )
Mon, 16 Dec 1996 08:56:15 +0000

At 05:12 AM 12/16/96 -0500, you wrote:
>To all who are interested,
>
>Reed has put my transcription of George Benson's solo on the Charlie Parker F
>blues tune "Billie's Bounce" in a PDF file format available at the following
>URL:
>
>www.justjazz.com/billbens.pdf
>
>WARNING: THIS SOLO IS 11 FULL CHORUSES IN LENGTH, THEREFORE IT TAKES UP 500K
>IN SPACE
>
>If you have the space (and the Adobe Acrobat Reader) I think you will like
>it. I have purposely left the chord changes off the transcription, you will
>be able to figure them out if you know the basic changes for F blues (besides
>it will stretch your ears a little).
>
>The CD I transcribed it from was the "Walkman Jazz" compilation of early
>George Benson recordings. The sidemen were: Herbie Hancock, Ron Carter,
>Billy Cobham, and Johnny Pacheco (congas). Please let me know what you
>think!
>
>Brian Oates
>
>
>
thanks brian.

for those that don't know this, the full URL address is :

http://www.justjazz.com/billbens.pdf

reed