Big Ugly Blues for jazz orchestra

Originally Posted by rolifer

You asked me a question in another thread so I had to do a background check on you. I am impressed. Those who can not use the logical half of their brain would never understand this. The structure is readily apparent to me (after all, I am a Math major) and I enjoyed this quite a bit, as did my neice listening beside me. Gotta love the blues...
Keep it up.

Glad the background check came back clean!

Also, glad you dig the tune! I know I certainly didn't approach it with a logical mindset, but (subconsciously) form and structure are HUGELY important to me.
Thanks for the kind words!

Hey Robin!

WHERE IS THE SCORE, HUH?

Ok!

I see the first part is rather free... with "loops" playing (not real loops, but lots of repeatitions). Rhythm and orcehstration rock seriously! Solo changes tonality! YAYAY! you're my man now!

Impressed I am

So much I that need write to this like!

Me not yoda. Yoda is an arse! Me is better! This music altered my state of mind!

And NO! it's not ugly!

Originally Posted by nikolas

And NO! it's not ugly!

Of course it is, that is the very essence of the tune and what makes it good.

Originally Posted by nikolas

WHERE IS THE SCORE, HUH?

Ok!

I see the first part is rather free... with "loops" playing (not real loops, but lots of repeatitions). Rhythm and orcehstration rock seriously! Solo changes tonality! YAYAY! you're my man now!

Impressed I am

...
And NO! it's not ugly!

Glad you liked it! Score is currently being reworked for readability: for some reason I wrote it in 4/4, very up-tempo - each page of the score was, like 4 seconds worth of music, and had people tapping their toes like crazy - too fast. So, I've cut it all in half with double-time feel...much better now! May post the score eventually...

...I practically stole all the arranging concepts from Mingus: the simple melody, ad-lib cacophony underneath, stop time solo, cut time stuff, backgrounds...was going for that dirty, urban feel Mingus captures so well...

(not sure where you hear the solos changing tonality...it stays in C the whole time )

Aaaaand, if you didn't think it ugly, we didn't try hard enough! Will be much uglier for you, next time!

Originally Posted by Sam524

sick song man. the beginning sounds like something by david sanchez

Thanks, glad you dig it...but...David Sanchez? Really? ...that's an odd choice.

shat!

Originally Posted by goodridge_winners

shat!

Great head, man! I love how everything emerges from it when it enters and reenters at the end. I can sense some satire, perhaps against the redundancies of teaching blues scales in jazz - the instruments come in and sort of noodle around with them (I hear a clear bebop scale descending in a sax part). Nice job!

Originally Posted by oingo86

Great head, man! I love how everything emerges from it when it enters and reenters at the end. I can sense some satire, perhaps against the redundancies of teaching blues scales in jazz - the instruments come in and sort of noodle around with them (I hear a clear bebop scale descending in a sax part). Nice job!

Thanks for listening... Most of the stuff at the beginning was improvised, working with a Mingus-ish approach to collective improv working with composed parts...as part of the arrangement.

Originally Posted by robinjessome

haha, by shat i mean: There are no words to describe my amazement!