song: I'll Be Seeing You
artist: Julian Lage
album: Arclight (2016)
writers: Music by Sammy Fain / Lyrics by Irving Kahal (1938)

electric guitar: Julian Lage
double bass: Scott Colley
(drums, percussion: Kenny Wollesen)

This is a complete transcription of the guitar and bass on this wonderful Jazz recording. Notice how both instruments jump in ‘soloing mode’ after the first head (45 secs. in), yet they still manage to hold things together. Enjoy!

This Jazz standard was written by the songwriter duo Fain & Kahal in 1938, and although the song was immediately inserted into the Broadway musical Right This Way, it has done perfectly well on its own, being continuously recorded throughout the decades, from Frank Sinatra to Michael Bublé. The most distinguished recording still is arguably Billie Holiday’s from 1944, which also happened to be transmitted by NASA to their Mars rover Opportunity in 2018. A funny music historical observation is that snippets of the melody resembles a passage in Mahler’s third symphony, in the start of the final movement (in the key of D Major) – hear if you can spot it!