![]() ![]() Any support is appreciated and will go towards keeping this site running, saxophone reeds, mouthpiece patches, coffee, and towards justifying the many hours I spend on providing free transcriptions to the saxophone community! Thanks, Steve *If you would like to support me here at, you can do so on the support page of my store or better yet pick up a jazz improvisation book or lesson while you’re here. Insane Michael Brecker Invitation Tenor Sax Solo Transcription from Jaco Birthday Concert-Concert Key PDF Insane Michael Brecker Invitation Tenor Sax Solo Transcription from Jaco Birthday Concert-Bb PDF If you have any thoughts on Michael Brecker, Jaco Pastorius or this transcription of Brecker’s Invitation solo, I would love to hear from you in the comments below. ![]() His contributions to music and as a person are still having a lasting impact on those he interacted with and influenced as well as all those who have yet to hear his great recordings in the future. It’s hard to believe he has been gone for almost 15 years already. Both of these incredibly gifted musicians had a lasting and profound impact on the landscapes of the saxophone world and the electric bass world. Michael Brecker died in 2007 from leukemia. Jaco died in 1987 as a result of injuries sustained in a beating outside a South Florida after-hours nightclub (this still makes me so mad every time I think about it). Sadly, Michael Brecker and Jaco Pastorius are no longer with us. Insane Michael Brecker Invitation Tenor Sax Solo from the Jaco Birthday Concert It did throw me for a loop while transcribing though as there is an extra 16 bars added to the form right there in the solo. I don’t know if this was planned, a mistake, or maybe just too many drugs taken before the concert. Almost like Brecker is hesitant and is not sure where Jaco is going. Bars 9-16 has just Jaco playing the bass line behind Brecker and it seems a bit odd to me. On page 4 however, the band goes back to the top of the head but then Jaco sounds like he is going to the ending again during those 16 bars of that A section. Pages 1-3 is a typical chorus of Invitation. One interesting observation while working on this transcription is that there is some weirdness to the form of the tune during the solo. I mean, Bob Mintzer does great, but I have to wonder what he was thinking while listening to Brecker solo………) (I really feel bad for Bob Mintzer who had to take the solo after Brecker. Michael Brecker is usually high energy to begin with but when you add Jaco’s incredibly energetic bass lines it just pushes Brecker into maximum overdrive. Michael Brecker just crushes this solo! I love the energy and interplay between Brecker and Jaco. When Michael Brecker comes in for his tenor solo, in typical Michael Brecker fashion it is mostly all 16th notes. Peter Erskine and Jaco Pastorius start this tune off in the ballpark of 172-176 bpm. Michael Brecker’s solo on this jazz standard, Invitation, is just ridiculous in my mind. The Jaco Pastorius “Birthday Concert” album was recorded live in 1981 but wasn’t released until 1995. ![]() This is a transcription of Michael Brecker’s insane tenor sax solo on the jazz standard, “Invitation” from the Jaco Pastorius’ album “The Birthday Concert” (this is not the Invitation solo from Jack Wilkins album “Merge”). Here’s another great Michael Brecker tenor saxophone solo transcription I am excited to share with everyone. ![]()
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