Ep. 16 - Sharp Eleven Music - Jorre Reynders & Timothy Pedone

Hello everyone,

This is Mirko Guerrini, and I welcome you to the Jazz Transcription Clinic, a monthly interviews podcast where we talk with accomplished jazz doctors about their lives, careers and their personal transcription secrets. 

On this episode of the Jazz Transcription Clinic Podcast Mirko Guerrini interviews the guest jazz doctors: Jorre Reynders and Timothy Pedone from Sharp Eleven Music.

Listen to Barney's answers to the questions below: 
Why do you transcribe? 03:11
What do you expect to learn from a transcription? 11:34
How do you choose solos? 25:43
What is your transcribing methodology? 29:30
Do you write it down? 38:28
How do you practise the solos? 53:41
How do you incorporate transcriptions into your playing? 01:00:13
Who was the most difficult one to transcribe? 01:05:38
What is your favourite solo that you transcribed? 01:12:09

Jorre Reynders

After finishing his Master studies in Jazz saxophone at the Conservatory of Maastricht, Jorre decided to publish his transcriptions to the rest of the world through Youtube, naming it after how he named all his musical projects: "Sharp Eleven Music". Driven since teenage years by the awesomeness of a saxophone sound and soloing in particular, it has lead to an endless stream of motivation to dig deeper into everything saxophonist (and by extension other instruments) have to offer, uncovering it to the world simultanously. Publishing consistently a transcription ever two weeks since 2016 plus practicing and analyzing it has lead to a much deeper unstanding of everything saxophone, improvisation and music in general. This is now applied in the teaching courses and his own musical explorations.

Jorre is as a saxophonist active in the international acclaimed latin band Mambisimo Big Band, The Jack Million Big Band, his own Fusion project consisting of original material named the Sharp Eleven Electric Band with an album "Donkey Dance" released in 2020, several independ productions under Sharp Eleven Music like the Charlie Parker 1942 version of "Cherokee" for 5-part sax soli amongst others, and active as a working musician in Belgium and the rest of Europe. He also founded an indoor soccer (Futsal) club called FC Sharp Eleven, keeping fysically poor musicians off the streets. They lose all their games. 

Timothy Pedone

Just like Jorre, Timothy finished his Master studies in jazz guitar at the Conservatory of Maastricht. After that he went back to his first love, composition and developed a solo project, called Introvert. Not much time went by before he founded a music production company together with Jorre in 2016, called Edge Effect. Of course, studying guitar never stopped and transcribing became an increasingly bigger part of that. Fast forward to today and we have over 150 guitar transcriptions and lots of insights gained.

Additionally, Timothy is currently studying conducting at the conservatory of Leuven, he's assisting composers with orchestrations and engraving and every two weeks or so he goes and loses a game of indoor soccer.

You can check Sharp Eleven Music here:
https://www.sharpelevenmusic.com/

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