Central Park North: Transcriptions: Ed Bickert

This is a beautiful solo from an album Ed did in 1974 with Paul Desmond. Ed plays incredibly on the entire album, and I had a very hard time picking which tune to lift. Watch for his subtle re-harmonizations of the changes in his chordal playing. Taken from the album "Pure Desmond", featuring Paul Desmond on alto, Ed on guitar, Ron Carter on bass, and Connie Kay on drums. The album is available on CBS records.

Click here to see a transcription of Ed Bickert playing "Everything I Love" from Paul Desmond's "Pure Desmond."

Click here to listen to a RealAudio file of the solo, or here to download the soundfile to your hard drive.

Click here to go to Music Boulevard for further album information, with the option of buying this CD online. (This is an excellent record, and would be especially interesting to guitarists, as Ed's comping is so wonderfully rich harmonically, yet always so subtle and tasteful.)