need a cool guitar solo
 

I get free (university-sponsored) lessons for the whole year and as part of that I have to transcribe a solo [i will learn the head too]. Problem is, I've been listening to mostly horn players lately and can't even think of a good guitar solo that I really like. So, I'm appealing to OOT and would like to hear some suggestions. I don't want any crazy fast boring shred stuff or modern nonsense-sounding crap. Just something interesting and cool; something that would make you go "wow, thats clever" when you're listening. You can try submitting me a trumpet solo too, that could be cool; don't really want sax because i can't hear what's going on all that well. Also can't be a cliff brown solo because I just got a huge book of his transcriptions and I don't want to cheat. Oh yeah, Joe Pass stuff is out - not looking to figure out too many chords.

For examples of what I'm looking for:
Wes Montgomery SOS take 2
Wynton Marsalis My Funny Valentine [theres a strange part i'm not sure is guitar-translatable]
Freddie Greene in Count Basie band Dream a Little Dream of Me
intro to mingus's moanin' [bari sax] too short though

So yeah, I'm just looking for suggestions. I have 6 weeks to transcribe it and I must perform it at the end. I don't mind working hard, but the difficulty should be reasonable. Given enough practice, I can play most things that aren't just insanely ridiculously fast - read: i can play most stuff out of the omnibook.

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http://youtube.com/watch?v=9TmTgMEZjEk

Better get a whammy bar though.

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Hand on Heart - Steve Vai

Here's a video of someguy playing it with about 95% accuracy.

Hand on Heart

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does it have to be jazz guitar, or can it be a horn player?

some potential jazz guitar solos that sound about right for length and time involved are:

pat martino: sunny, or just friends
wes: no blues, from smokin' at the half note
pat metheny: all the things you are, james
grant green: miss ann's tempo
peter bernstein: brain dance
joe pass (not all his stuff is chord solos btw): night and day from for django
george benson: stella by starlight, I could write a book
kurt rosenwinkel: how deep is the ocean
ben monder: mistral. just kidding.

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It can be a horn player for sure, just needs to be jazz and interesting... its gonna be pretty challenging for me if there is a really fast trumpet or sax line but I'd love to hear any suggestions regardless [img]/images/graemlins/smile.gif[/img]. Thx for those earlier ones, TM, I'm gonna check em out now.

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I wonder if that JerryC guy had the same sort of situation that got him to arrange Canon.

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An off the wall idea could be to take some old ragtime piano stuff and jazz it up and do it for the guitar.

I'm kinda unsure if you're supposed to create something new here, or just transcribe something by ear as close as you can get.

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comments so far:

steve vai - exactly not what i'm looking for
zappa - cool, but long
martino - boring [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]
benson - can't find it
ragtime - my instructor is cool so I could suggest pretty much anything and see if its doable, but ragtime is not my thing at all.

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This is the best guitar solo in the history of music.

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I like the way he tunes the violin. Fantastic.

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Martino boring? LOL

Okay, so you're not looking for staple stuff here. Try Whipper Snapper from Wanye Krantz's Two Drink Minimum cd.

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Hmm, i have this album which features Django Reinhardt dueting with Stéphane Grappelli. He's awesome (Django). I'll have a listen through and find some good solos.

Edit: The album is called 'The Best of Hot Club De France' try and get hold of it. The violin solos by Grappelli are amazing too.

Edit 2: Heres a video of them link

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Hiram Bullock's solo in the Sting cover of Little Wing with Gil Evans' band. It melodic and "outside" enough.

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John Coltrane - Countdown

have fun

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I'm not a musician so I've no idea if it is challenging or interesting. But one of my favorite solos is on Blood Count by Duke Ellington, featuring Johnny Hodges on the alto sax. It's a ballad, so I would guess that it would be a lot easier than something like Giant Steps.

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How about something from Blue Trane? I've always liked Lee Morgan's (trumpet) playing on this record and others. Moment's Notice might be good, some instructive changes, at least.

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the album that Scofield and Metheny did together (I forget the name) has a blues in Bb on it (again I forget the name), and Sco's solo is awesome....not too difficult or fast (though there might be a couple fast Sco-ish runs), but very tasty and hip and bluesy, etc....I remember after transcribing it, I really took a lot from that solo....

the solo on Mark Whitfield's "Blues From Way Back" off "The Marksman" CD is pretty cool....the first few choruses are really old school and nice....the end goes into typical Whitfield bebop flurriness, but it's cool if you don't know him that well.....

also, I really got a lot out of transcribing Chet Baker, particularly "There Will Never Be Another You"....just so beautiful and melodic....

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@Predator314

I can no longer look at your username without thinking: "he IS the shaft."

This is completely unrelated to the guitar thread, but whatever.

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Lots of tasty trumpet (Marsalis) and sax stuff on Joe Henderson's Lush Life album. The only guitar guy I listen to these days who makes me go "wow, that's clever" is Bill Frisell, but maybe that borders on the "modern nonsense-sounding crap" you don't like. I especially like his album with Dave Holland and Elvin Jones.