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City Bounce – by
Robert Buckley |
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City Bounce is a minor blues with a harmonic twist at the
end of each phrase. It begins with a brass canon and goes
into a swing/shuffle feel. There are two solo sections
which bookend a group soli section. I was inspired to write
the music while looking out over English Bay from my apartment
and seeing all the life on the beach and on the water,
ever changing. Vancouver, being a city of bays “Bay
City” emerged as part of the title. Bounce? Well
that might have been the girls, or the bikinis, or the
boats bouncing on the water! |
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Talei Sonria – by
David Langley |
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| Equinox – by
Robert Buckley |
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piece was inspired by Herbie Hancock’s work in
the sixties and seventies. In the words of the composer “ It’s
a funky shuffle with a fugue in the middle.” The
title relates to the feel of the music – a balance
of light and dark. |
| Marlise – by
Robert Buckley |
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is in a bossa nova style with two solo sections: one for
alto sax and the other for flugelhorn. It uses woodwind
doubles and has a fugue section in the middle followed
by saxophone section soli. The tune was inspired by a very
exotic lady, a fact that's reflected in the music. The
piece was written as a secret gift and when Marlise woke
in the morning she walked out into the living room to find
the score and parts all over the room. |
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Sail – by
David Langley |
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Sail is a medium up-tempo swing chart. The theme features
a trio of tenor sax, trumpet, and trombone with all sections
of the band eventually backing up and restating the theme.
There is plenty of solo space, followed by a unison brass
and bass line that introduces an alto sax solo. Finally
a sax soli sections leads to the final shout chorus and
a big ending.
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scored, the 2nd trumpet plays a 2 bar intro to the solo sectiona
at bar 77. There is a solo chorus each for 2nd trumpet, tenor sax
1st trombone and guitar. Obviously, this 16 bar segment could be
extended or the soloist changed. Background figures are written
for saxes (1st and 3rd times) and trumpets (2nd and 4th times).
If desired these figures mesh when played simultaneously by both
sections. Following the solo section is a unison trumpet/trombone/bass
line for 8 bars which introduces the longer alto sax solo. Trombones
and then trumpets provide the background. This solo is followed
by a sax soli section, punctuated by trumpet fills. The brass section
carries the band to the ending with a variation on the original
theme backed by unison sax fills. The original pedal point line
becomes the final statement.
The British Columbia coast inspired the title. I have spent many summers exploring
the local waters under sail after being introduced to the cruising life while
living in the South Pacific. The initial 8 bars of the theme, with bass pedal
point, seemed to me to “set sail” for the musical voyage that follows. |
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in the Sand – by
David Langley |
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played as a rubato brass choir, conducted slowly and
freely. A drum pick-up in the 3rd bar sets up an 8 bar
rhythm-establishing Section. The feel is ‘hip-hop’ funk
shuffle, laid down by the drum and bass, with guitar
and piano fitting in rhythmic parts.
Saxes
play the theme at bar 13, with trombone backgrounds. Bar 23 is
a bridge played by the brass with sax backgrounds. The theme is
restated and completed from bar 31 to 42.
The Solo section runs from bar 42-69 and repeats three times, as written. Bars
42to 61 are modal, with background phrases played by saxes, trumpets, and/or
trombones. These phrases are staggered and could be played as an interplay between
sections with or without a soloist. As scored, the trombones and trumpets play
phrases behind the alto sax solo, the saxes are playing their phrases during
the trumpet solo, and all sections play behind the guitar solo. All sections
play phrases behind the soloist in the bridge section at bar 62, with are a repeat
at bar 69 back to bar 42 and the next solo. On the final pass though bars 42
to 61 the band takes the Coda to bar 70 and a final bridge section. The theme
is restated by the band. Finally, the rhythm winds down with a ritardando into
bar 90 where the conductor leads the band through the restatement of the intro
line to the ending.
The sand was on a beach on Cortes Island on the BC Coast. The words are yours. |
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