Ovals – Jimmy Raney

An elegant medium-up song with a 40-measure AABCD form. A transcription of Jimmy Raney's solo is available as well as a condensed score showing the guitar/piano/bass trio arrangement.

Jimmy Raney

August 20, 1927 – May 9, 1995

Jimmy Raney was one of the most fluent and deft bebop players of all time, having assimilated the language of musicians such as Charlie Parker, Bud Powell, and Dizzy Gillespie in such a thorough manner that pianist Barry Harris, one of the world’s foremost bebop masters, once remarked that “Man this cat (Jimmy Raney) plays like Yard (Charlie Parker)!”’ Read more...

4 songs available.