The first CD by this amazing, creative Bay Area-based Big Band (formerly the Bay Area Jazz Composer's Orchestra). This CD contains all the music you've come to love.
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For 4 trumpets, 4 trombones, 5 saxes, full rhythm section; featuring trumpets 3 and 4 and drums. This is a New Orleans- style chart inspired by the great drummer Shannon Powell.
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This is the first cut of our first album. It's an exciting and challenging arrangement of ESP, a great tune from the mid-60's Miles era. It starts with solo trumpet and drums and builds to a dramatic tenor solo in the middle, rushing to a wild ending.
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A tribute to the great Clark Terry, this is a showpiece for four trumpets.
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New-age "fusion" locally-sourced bossa. Features alto and trumpet.
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A quirky bebop tune inspired by Monk and other bebop greats. Ryhthym changes and lots of solos. The name is the reverse of the legal term "Non Compus Mentis" meaning - not in your right mind.
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A rip-roaring barn burner. Includes a free section in the middle for the rhythm section. Fun to play and hear.
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Cheap Rent is a fun, groove-based piece. It features a 12/8 clave that can be found in many traditional forms of music with roots in Western Africa. It also makes use of a "call and response" melodic technique, unison bass/electric guitar lines, a single chord improvisation for one soloist, and the use of both non-diatonic root movements and augmented chords for another. This piece, in a predetermined and rhythmic way, also makes use of some extended techniques, exploring the sounds that can be made by the sax, trombone, and trumpet sections.
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