Edition: Jazz Sextet Arrangement (Three Horns With Rhythm)

Description: Up-Tempo Waltz - Difficult

Publisher: Second Floor Music/Hal Leonard

This album features compositions by DONALD BROWN and JAMES WILLIAMS, and other musicians who have since become top contemporary jazz figures.

SEXTET INSTRUMENTATION

The tricky starts and stops for the rhythm section, the challenging chord changes, the horn lines full of quirky rhythms, the little flurries of notes that seem to come out of nowhere - it all brings the namesake of this Thelonious Monk tribute to mind. This is a challenge for the entire ensemble.

SOLOS: The changes remain several measures in a key center before going somewhere else, so even though they go by rather fast (most chords get only three beats at the moderately fast waltz tempo), a soloist can get inside the progression and go beyond simply outlining the changes.

Recorded by JAMES WILLIAMS on ALTER EGO [Sunnyside: SSC 1007 / Recorded July 19 & 20, 1984]

1st part: Alto Sax, Trumpet, C treble clef
2nd part: Tenor Sax, Alto Sax, Trombone
3rd part: Guitar, Tenor Sax, Trombone, Baritone Sax
Piano
Bass
Drums
Guitar
FULL SCORE