Mulgrew Miller Transcription
RIP Mulgrew. What a loss: http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/30/arts/music/mulgrew-miller-jazz-pianist-dies-at-57.html
Here are three choruses of a Mulgrew Miller piano solo on “If I Should Lose You,” from the album Getting To Know You.
Full PDF: Mulgrew-IfIShouldLoseYou
He frequently takes the lines “out” by playing off the melodic minor scale of the raised 5th, e.g., F# melodic minor (b3, 6, #7) when in Bb Maj, only to descend back in the original tonality. He does this in measure 12, 38-39 and 53-54. Note this is essentially playing off the V7 since the melodic minor a half-step up from the V7 is a common scale choice. The line at 58-59 is really nice too — he plays a C7 altered scale (#5, b7, b9, #9) over a G min. This happens again at 75-76 Also common to any Mulgrew solo is the bebop phrase heard at 41 and 51.
I’ll try to finish this solo at some point because there’s more good stuff in the choruses that follow.
Enjoy.
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Damo
hey mate
I just started up my blog today. Don’t have the recording you’ve transcribed, but I transcribed his If I Should Lose You solo from Live @ Kennedy if you’re interested.
Cheers
Damo
Damo
errm. http://poochiebordeaux.blogspot.com/ if anyone else is interested.
Fauxmat
Excellent, thanks for sharing. Very cool to see these two solos transcribed in parallel! Love that you have Marc Copland on your site too. Another favorite of mine….
florbo73
Many thanks, great work!!!
Fauxmat
Thoughts with Mulgrew today…
Fauxmat
RIP Mulgrew. Heartbreaking.