After transcribing a lot of great jazz players it’s very refreshing to transcribe something like this. What a sound! click here for the trumpet part…

I finished transcribing al solos by Nicholas Payton from the “Fingerpainting” album. 40 pages of magic trumpet playing! Yesterday this page of track 13 “Oliloqui…

Here a very funky solo on “Sly” by Nicholas Payton. Not a lot of notes in it, but a lot of soul…😍 This solo (with…

I’m working on a new book which will be about jazz articulation. I’ve finished transcribing 23 solo transcriptions from Louis Armstrong till Roy Hargrove. This…

I just finished transcribing 11 Chet Baker albums: Chet Baker & Crew, Chet Baker in Tokyo, Daybreak, Someday My Prince Will Come, This Is Always,…

If you can’t play high, play low… Here the end of a great solo by Chet Baker on the tune “Gnid” from the album “Someday…

Have you ever heard Chet Baker playing loud with good chops and with a big band? Here one of the 42 tunes I transcribed already…

Today I started a new job as a trumpet technique teacher (jazz) at the Amsterdam University of the Arts. I will do my best to…

Here a great solo by the late (and great) Chet Baker, from the album “The Pacific Jazz Years”. I just started with the 3rd disc…

I wrote a new warming-up book for trumpet because I don’t like playing boring exercises like flow studies or long tones. So I had the…

Here another transcription from Conrad Gozzo called “You Go To My Head”. What a sound!