Tonight, I saw the Kevin Yosua Trio, with guest Jacob Chung at our local jazz venue, Jazzin Lab. It was a great show.  Everyone played their asses off! As a would-be saxophonist, I paid close attention  to Jacob Chung’s playing, and man does the guy have chops. (I mean, I knew that from listening to his albums, but in person he’s just as much of a monster, albeit a sometimes soft-spoken one.) He has the kind of tone a lot of horn players would die for, and was a deeply inventive player.  The bandleader, Kevin Yosua, was the bassist. He …

Well, I spent the last week (yes, it took me a week) transcribing Sam Gendel’s solo on Lonnie’s Lament in this live performance with “Tiki” Pasillas and Fabiano do Nascimento: You can find a link for the PDF on my brand new Transcriptions page. I figured I might as well have a page that indexes these, assuming I’m going to do more. (And I do plan on doing at least some more of them.)  I’m not sure why it took me so long to get around to trying to transcribe improvisations. Other than one hurried study of a Charlie Rouse …