Format : Score and Parts
SKU: KN.61500S
UPC: 822795615005.
This engaging swing original for advancing groups alternates between 2 and 4 feels while providing interesting ensemble passages for everyone. Ample articulations and dynamics are provided throughout, and solo space is reserved for alto sax and trombone. While this chart can be programmed anywhere in your set, it works exceptionally well as an opener or closer thanks to a powerful shout chorus and big ending. A guitar chord chart by Jim Greeson is included in each set. Duration 4:55. Available in SmartMusic.
SKU: M7.DOHR-88809
ISBN 9790202098097.
On the workWritten originally for swing band in the 1970's in a work called A Minor Excursion I chose a rather bland tune for this suite. What originally brought this work alive was the improvisation and variation of the tune. Therefore this suite is a set of variations on the opening movement and I did this in homage to the original work. For me it's the following movements which make the work. The Prelude is just a simple statement of the theme with a small middle eight section which hints at the work's origin as a jazz piece. The rest of the movements grow from the opening and explores the Prelude in various ways. This is really jazz meets symphonic development. The theme can be clearly heard in all the movements but as the work reaches its conclusion the theme becomes more and more fragmented. The first performance was given on 20 November 1993 at Saint Edmund's Church, Village Way, Beckenham, Kent by the Bromley Oecumenical Singers and Orchestra, conducted by Tomas Creagh-Fuller. (Adrian Connell)Duration: 15 minutes.