Transcription IV - Dave Liebman "Fancy Free"

People familiar with Elvin Jones’s recording Live at the Lighthouse will know that the performances of Jone’s two saxophone players Dave Liebman and Steve Grossman are, well, insane. Both players maintain feverish intensity throughout unusually long solos—all while articulating what now seems like canonic but what then likely seemed pretty fresh post-trane language. A full transcription is beyond the scope of this blog but you can find about a minute of Liebman’s solo transcribed here and watch my performance of it here.