LARRY CORYELL · PAULO MORELLO · ANDREAS DOMBERT · HELMUT KAGERER
Night Of Jazz Guitars The quadriga of jazz guitar
For Helmut Kagerer, Paulo Morello, Andreas Dombert and guest star Larry Coryell their teamwork means much more than a blueprint of the formula “Great Guitars”. These gentlemen define the pure distillation of their stringed work, the intermingling of ideas and chords in a completely new way – not only in terms of the line-up. Since, in modern jazz, you have to examine the scene with a fine-tooth comb if you look for a guitaristic quartet. Here four excellent virtuoso and visionary players unify their strength for a fearless high wire act, for exciting and electrifying dialogues. They built an elaborate dramaturgy with plenty of space to improvise. These „four musketeers“ know each other, also know their limits and how to achieve more possibilities beyond these limits with every live show they play. When they appear on stage you witness adventures which captivate musicians as well as audience. Never before has jazz guitar experienced such a mighty renaissance. Four individualists with distinct personalities blend together in a creative power station and provide new steam for the often cited magic of the strings. These are four outstanding instrumentalists, representing four generations rooted in four different directions. They find a common grounding in standards and original compositions, and they create a very special, warm and breathtaking music which is seldom to be found these days.
Larry Coryell is the guest star in this line-up, but as was his wish, gets equal treatment. The Texas-born string wizzard is a pioneer in the fusion genre having created a breathtaking style in which he mixes blues, bebop and rock. Coryell has played with John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia, Chick Corea, Billy Cobham, Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins and the Brecker Brothers among others. Formerly celebrated for his uncompromising and virtuoso fusion style, the legendary guitarist now indulges in the delicate development of melodies. Paulo Morello became known to international audiences through his project “Bossa Nova Legends”. With Grammy winner Leny Andrade and bossa nova nestor Johnny Alf Morello guested on the most important European and South American jazz festivals. The success of this project resulted in further collaborations, for example with Jimmy Smith, Roberta Gambarini, Paul Kuhn, Ivan Lins, Michael P. Mossman and André Ceccarelli. Paulo teaches jazz guitar and Latin American music at the Hochschule für Musik in Nuremberg/ Germany. Andreas Dombert is a musician with an impressive and wideranging capability. After classical music studies he established himself not only as pop musician with successes in the charts, but also as a jazzman. Within the German series “Jazz thing - Next Generation” he surprised listeners with a mix of traditional archtop guitar and electronica in his project “Dombert’s Urban Jazz”. Between 2002 and 2004 he played with the internationally known Bundesjugendjazzorchester, where he worked, among others, with the celebrated guitar colleague Philip Catherine.
NIGHT OF JAZZ GUITARS · CORYELL · MORELLO · DOMBERT · KAGERER
Chamber music? Without any doubt! Consciousness of tradition? Definitely! Courage to be innovative? Yes, indeed! Team spirit? Of course! Soloist individuality? Can’t do without it! Thus, same procedure as any time when guitarists get together in a jazz context? Under no circumstances!
Guitar quartet arrangements and solo transcriptions
Helmut Kagerer is one of the most interesting guitarists on the European jazz scene. He has displayed his abilities as composer, solo player and sensitive accompanist in team works with Jimmy Cobb, Clark Terry, Red Holloway, Houston Person, Peter Bernstein and Sam Rivers. For eight years now he has taught at the renowned Vermont Jazz Center, which was founded by his duo partner Attila Zoller. In 1991 Helmut Kagerer received the Kultur-Preis of Bavaria and in 2008 the Archtop Germany Award.
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LARRY CORYELL 路 PAULO MORELLO 路 ANDREAS DOMBERT 路 HELMUT KAGERER
Guitar quartet arrangements and solo transcriptions
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Contents Page Introduction 3 Cookin‘ At The Continental (solo transcriptions) 4 Koala 12 They Loved You More In Paris 21 Intro to Like Someone In Love 44 Like Someone In Love (solo transcriptions) 48 Jailbreak 57 Tender Tears: Theme And Variations 69 Noites Cariocas (solo transcriptions) 84 Blue In Green (solo transcriptions) 88 Blues For Bireli 92 I Think It Is Too Late Now 102 Tadd‘s Delight (solo transcriptions) 119 Imprint 128
All transcriptions by Paulo Morello, Andreas Dombert and Helmut Kagerer, except “Intro to Like Someone In Love” and “Blues For Bireli” by David Plate. Music notation and editing by Paulo Morello.
Acknowledgements: We would like to thank Peter Finger, Frank Kleinschmidt, Gaby and Mike Hennessey and Peter Stretton for their great support. Very special thanks go to our friend David Plate for his arrangements, transcriptions and his patience in sharing his Sibelius wisdom – without him the score editing would have been impossible. We also want to thank Jens Palm, Uli Zrenner-Wolkenstein and Georg Willmerdinger for the wonderful photos as well as Stefan Franzen and Reinhard Köchel for their charming texts. Larry, Paulo, Andreas and Helmut
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Introduction Four guitarists and nothing else – you will very rarely find this line-up in the history of jazz. When Paulo Morello, Helmut Kagerer, Andreas Dombert and their very special guest Larry Coryell entered the studio in the autumn of 2010 they were a bit sceptical about the reactions of their audience. But as they soon found out the quartet’s work was not only accepted but loved by the CD listeners and the live audience alike who witnessed the international shows that followed the album’s release. No wonder: Since this teaming-up of four string wizards is nothing less than a renaissance of the modern jazz guitar, a celebration of inspired dialogues and virtuoso improvisations, adventurous and intimate at the same time. It was only logical to those four kindred spirits to come up with an idea which would even more strengthen the bond between them and especially their guitar playing fans. Since they have learned so much from transcription books it was a matter very close to their hearts to continue this path of transmitting their talent. So here you hold in your hands their very personal commission: to offer you a book of arrangements, compositions and solo transcriptions from the CD “Night Of Jazz Guitars” (IN+OUT Records).
have put a lot of effort into making the transcriptions clear and comprehensive. To keep up the jazzy character of the tunes you should take into account the fact that the solos require a reasonable portion of gut feeling and free improvisation - they shouldn’t be played exactly as notated, especially when you find the instruction “freely”. After all the recordings will contribute to your understanding of the written music – so to get the most out of it, it’s advisable to have the CD. The quartet explicitly encourages you to play the songs alone or with your own group – and hopes that you will have as much fun as the musicians had during the sessions. If you have any questions concerning NoJG’s work you will find more information on www.nightofjazzguitars.com, or feel free to contact them via info@nightofjazzguitars.com Good luck in re-creating the music of NoJG ! Stefan Franzen, music journalist
A few words about how to work with this book: It contains all the solo passages of the CD as well as all the arrangements of the original compositions. The four musicians
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Solos on Cookin`At The Continental
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Night of Jazz Guitars – Jazz Club “Leerer Beutel” Regensburg (photo by Jens Palm)
Imprint: Design: Manfred Pollert Cover photography: Uli Zrenner-Wolkenstein Logo design (NoJG): Ulf Ryberg Copy editing: Monika Kotte Production: Peter Finger © 2011 by Acoustic Music GmbH & Co. KG, Osnabrück, Germany Music engraving copyright protected. Order no. FP 8123 ISBN 978-3-938679-67-8 ISMN 979-0-700307-23-3 FingerPrint / Acoustic Music GmbH & Co. KG Jahnstraße 1a · 49080 Osnabrück/Germany Phone: +49-(0)541-71 00 20 · Fax: +49-(0)541-70 86 67 E-Mail: order@acoustic-music.de www.acoustic-music.de www.fingerprint-verlag.de
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LARRY CORYELL · PAULO MORELLO · ANDREAS DOMBERT · HELMUT KAGERER
Night Of Jazz Guitars The quadriga of jazz guitar
For Helmut Kagerer, Paulo Morello, Andreas Dombert and guest star Larry Coryell their teamwork means much more than a blueprint of the formula “Great Guitars”. These gentlemen define the pure distillation of their stringed work, the intermingling of ideas and chords in a completely new way – not only in terms of the line-up. Since, in modern jazz, you have to examine the scene with a fine-tooth comb if you look for a guitaristic quartet. Here four excellent virtuoso and visionary players unify their strength for a fearless high wire act, for exciting and electrifying dialogues. They built an elaborate dramaturgy with plenty of space to improvise. These „four musketeers“ know each other, also know their limits and how to achieve more possibilities beyond these limits with every live show they play. When they appear on stage you witness adventures which captivate musicians as well as audience. Never before has jazz guitar experienced such a mighty renaissance. Four individualists with distinct personalities blend together in a creative power station and provide new steam for the often cited magic of the strings. These are four outstanding instrumentalists, representing four generations rooted in four different directions. They find a common grounding in standards and original compositions, and they create a very special, warm and breathtaking music which is seldom to be found these days.
Larry Coryell is the guest star in this line-up, but as was his wish, gets equal treatment. The Texas-born string wizzard is a pioneer in the fusion genre having created a breathtaking style in which he mixes blues, bebop and rock. Coryell has played with John McLaughlin, Paco De Lucia, Chick Corea, Billy Cobham, Chet Baker, Sonny Rollins and the Brecker Brothers among others. Formerly celebrated for his uncompromising and virtuoso fusion style, the legendary guitarist now indulges in the delicate development of melodies. Paulo Morello became known to international audiences through his project “Bossa Nova Legends”. With Grammy winner Leny Andrade and bossa nova nestor Johnny Alf Morello guested on the most important European and South American jazz festivals. The success of this project resulted in further collaborations, for example with Jimmy Smith, Roberta Gambarini, Paul Kuhn, Ivan Lins, Michael P. Mossman and André Ceccarelli. Paulo teaches jazz guitar and Latin American music at the Hochschule für Musik in Nuremberg/ Germany. Andreas Dombert is a musician with an impressive and wideranging capability. After classical music studies he established himself not only as pop musician with successes in the charts, but also as a jazzman. Within the German series “Jazz thing - Next Generation” he surprised listeners with a mix of traditional archtop guitar and electronica in his project “Dombert’s Urban Jazz”. Between 2002 and 2004 he played with the internationally known Bundesjugendjazzorchester, where he worked, among others, with the celebrated guitar colleague Philip Catherine.
NIGHT OF JAZZ GUITARS · CORYELL · MORELLO · DOMBERT · KAGERER
Chamber music? Without any doubt! Consciousness of tradition? Definitely! Courage to be innovative? Yes, indeed! Team spirit? Of course! Soloist individuality? Can’t do without it! Thus, same procedure as any time when guitarists get together in a jazz context? Under no circumstances!
Guitar quartet arrangements and solo transcriptions
Helmut Kagerer is one of the most interesting guitarists on the European jazz scene. He has displayed his abilities as composer, solo player and sensitive accompanist in team works with Jimmy Cobb, Clark Terry, Red Holloway, Houston Person, Peter Bernstein and Sam Rivers. For eight years now he has taught at the renowned Vermont Jazz Center, which was founded by his duo partner Attila Zoller. In 1991 Helmut Kagerer received the Kultur-Preis of Bavaria and in 2008 the Archtop Germany Award.
FingerPrint / Acoustic Music GmbH & Co. KG · Jahnstraße 1a · 49080 Osnabrück · Tel.: 0541-71 00 20 · Fax 0541-70 86 67 E-Mail: order@acoustic-music.de · www.acoustic-music.de
FP 8123
Best.-Nr. FP 8123 ISBN 978-3-938679-67-8 ISMN 979-0-700307-23-3 www.acoustic-music.de www.fingerprint-verlag.de
FP 8123