After You’ve Gone Solo Jazz Piano Transcription (Paul Tobey)

As captured from a Saturday morning Jazzmentl YouTube livestream, this transcription, meticulously etched by our in-house wizard Przemyslaw Jaworucki, doesn’t merely map notes—it breathes the groove. Accuracy? Too clinical a word. What you hold is the living pulse of a 1918 Tin Pan Alley gem, reharmonized and reborn in slow-cooked swing at a languid ♩=70.

From the first bar, the original changes are twisted like a late-night confession—rich, unexpected voicings that make a century-old standard sound like it just stepped off a smoky 52nd Street bandstand. By page 2, the line unfurls into liquid arpeggios and cascading phrases, begging to be tasted, not just read. Page 4 flips the script: double-time swing ignites. Sixteenth-note triplets now dance in bebop tongues, two bars crammed per system because the ideas spill faster than ink can dry. Listen close—you’ll hear Bird’s angularity braided with Bill Evans’ harmonic shimmer, a masterclass in voicing alchemy.

The recap returns to velvet tempo, but the harmony has grown lush and daring. Block-chord cathedrals rise in both hands, demanding you voice melodies inside chords—not just play them, but sing through the architecture. The final turnaround loops like a knowing wink, resolving on a stratospheric Cmaj7 arpeggio that rings to the rafters.

Level: Intermediate to advanced.
Length: 10 pages of pure discovery.
Pro tip: Keep the livestream performance cued beside you. Play a bar, listen, play again—let the recording be your metronome and mirror. Rome wasn’t built in a day, and neither is a solo this soulful. Dig in. The bandstand awaits.