It is a sonny rollins composition from 1954, and it fits right into the hard bop sound. With john coltrane instead of rollins on saxophone, it has been recorded again in 1956. Transcription of sonny rollinss solo on oleo, from the miles davis record bags groove, recorded in. Sonny rollins oleo sheet music for piano download free in pdf or. Album relaxing with the miles davis quartett, 1954 pdf. Sonny rollins musician music database radio swiss jazz. The jazz style of sonny rollins download ebook pdf, epub. Theodore walter sonny rollins born september 7th, 1930 is an american jazz tenor saxophonist. Here, we will provide you with lead sheets, basic chord melodies, chords and single note solos that you can begin applying over some of the most popular standards right away. Listen, practice, and play along with herbies solo performance of sonny rollinss standard, a classic example of rhythm changes.
Sonny rollins oleo sheet music piano solo in bb major. Rollins oleo sheet music for flute solo pdf virtual sheet music. Your browser does not currently recognize any of the video formats available. You are purchasing a high quality pdf file suitable for printing. Newborn recorded his version with bassist paul chambers and drummer philly joe jones. Open sky, sonny rollins and his world of improvisation. Shop our newest and most popular sonny rollins sheet music such as st. Oleo strut, a type of shock absorbers on aircraft landing gear oleo composition, a musical composition by sonny rollins oleo grant green album, a 1962 album featuring the above composition.
Most times we record the audio direct from the outputs of a midi file player like a merish, okyweb, roland or yamaha device. The good thing about this song is that it mostly follows the gershwin ive got rhythm chord progression, which is the famous i vi ii v chord progression. Buy this item to display, print, and enjoy the complete music. Sonny rollins solo on it dont mean a thing transcriptions page updates for april 2016. A mashup arrangement of the bebop standards oleo and anthropology. Walter theodore sonny rollins born september 7, 1930 is an american jazz tenor saxophonist who is widely recognized as one of the most important and influential jazz musicians. Oleo is written by sonny rollins whom we have to thank for this oleo lead sheet. Miles davis omnibook for bb instruments download pdf. Sonny rollins midi files download sonny rollins midi file backing tracks. The sonny rollins omnibook celebrates the bebop legend that worked with miles, monk, mjq, and many others. Sonny rollins with thelonious monk kenny dorham moving out. In a sevendecade career, he has recorded over sixty albums as a leader. One of the worlds great tenor saxophonists, sonny rollins has always been committed to the fundamental truths of jazz, especially swing. His papers, dating from the 1910s to 2015 the bulk dates from the 1950s onward, document the musical, personal, and career development of one of the most important musicians and artists of the 20th and early 21st centuries.
The great sonny rollins classic, but in 34 time, and with a new chord progression nature boy. A jazz hour with sonny rollins oleo head and fours transcribed by todd bishop. Sonny rollins download ebook pdf, epub, tuebl, mobi. Licensed to virtual sheet music by hal leonard publishing company. Since then it has become a jazz standard, and has been played by numerous jazz artists, including miles davis, john coltrane, and bill evans. Walter theodore sonny rollins born september 7, 1930.
Sonny rollins all categories lps, cds, vinyl record. The song starts with a drum intro in a very fast tempo when phineas is playing unisono lines for two hands. The album features only 3 long tracks, all dominated by masterful work by rollins and titles include oleo, dearly beloved, and doxy. The head of the tune features oleo while the bridge is taken from anthropology. Mute or solo instruments of mp3s and transcribe songs chords from youtube. Oleo for guitar solo, intermediate guitar sheet music. The great jazz standard oleo for jazz guitar now with audio and pdf with chord.
In a may 2005 new yorker profile, crouch wrote of rollins the concert artist. The audio file used in this video is an mp3 render of the hit trax midi file backing track. Includes an high quality pdf file to download instantly. Oleo is a hard bop composition by sonny rollins, written in 1954. This is a bassline that paul chambers plays on the sonny rollins tune oleo. It is based on rhythm changes, the 32bar aaba form chord progression borrowed somewhat from the old tune ive got rhythm, which is arguably the second most common harmonic form improvised over by jazz musicians after the 12bar blues. Since then it has become a jazz standard, and has been played by numerous jazz artists, including miles davis, john coltrane, and bill evans form oleo is one of a. This will boot your mobile into the downloading mode, you will see a message in the middle of the screen saying downloading. Stars from les miserables praise him all ye little.
A breakthrough arrived in 1954 when he recorded his famous compositions oleo, airegin, and doxy with a quintet led by davis that also featured pianist horace silver. You can also click on the link contained in the accompanying text, to go to the blog post with more information about the music. Alan dawson oleo live w sonny rollins 1965 pdf available. Sonny rollins is a popular recording artist in the hits of the 1960s. The giants of jazz series is designed to provide a method for studying, analyzing, imitating and assimilating the idiosyncratic and general facets of the styles of various jazz giants.
His solo work has earned him many accolades, including grammy awards, election into the american academy of arts and sciences, an edward macdowell medal, and the medal of arts from president barack obama. Oleo for flute solo, intermediate flute sheet music. Yoshis marked a return to pats organtrio roots, harnessed the talents of hammond virtuoso joey defrancesco, and contained spirited new renditions of. Some tracks may include sampled instruments from high quality sample libraries. Cd, album, re, rm, dig original jazz classics, prestige.
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Oleo is one of those jazz standards that someone will most definitely call out during a jazz session. Jazz standards for jazz guitar pdf sheet music, tabs, chords and soloing with audio examples welcome to our archive of some of the most popular jazz standards for jazz guitar. Creative people books broecking verlag, isbn 9783938763292. The premier site for the history and analysis of the standards jazz musicians play the most. Sonny rollins is one of my favorite musicians, and ive always loved playing his tune, oleo at least the melody. Instead of a chord melody, were going to give you a comping etude with. Alan dawson oleo full transcription live w sonny rollins 1965 pdf available. He has managed to be consistently experimental and forwardlooking, and he has. Bb sonny rollins transcription eternal triangle youtube. One of sonny rollins best albums ever, and a totally inspired.