Piano Improvisations

Transcribing anything is like doing a crossword puzzle. The underlying pulse/tempo determines how many boxes across are in each word or phrase, and our boxes down determine the pitch of each note in a phrase. This transcription is a work in progress that I hope you'll follow and work on with me. It's Emo's piano improvisation from the Welcome Back My Friends album and it begins after the Gulda Fugue, played over the Take A Pebble left hand ostinato pattern. One of the first things you'll notice with the recording of this is the tempo. It's easily as fast as any solo by Charlie Parker and, once I get into the analysis of it, you'll see the similarities with Parker don't end there.