Edition: Jazz Big Band Arrangement

Description: Moderate Blues - Medium

Publisher: Kendor Music

Series: Jazz Journey

Instrumentation: Standard jazz ensemble plus F horns (2) & tuba

Ranges: C#6 trumpet, A4 trombone

Style: Moderate Blues

Grade: Medium

Description: As recorded by Count Basie & His Orchestra for their Basie Straight Ahead album of 1968, this classic blues features a moderate tempo, piano and tenor solos, solid sax and brass solis, and a series of ensemble shouts punctuated by dramatically quieter passages to create the kind of intensity that keeps listeners riveted until the closing chord ends. Rhythm section parts are partially notated with chords cued, and the first brass soli calls for bucket mutes.