What you get
- Immediately download scores and parts
- Instant access to any updates or corrections
- Interview with pianist/composer Jim McNeely on Bob, Mel Lewis, and this
music.
- One downloadable page of Bob's original manuscript score
- Discussion with Ryan Truesdell on the details of preparing and editing
this music
- Bob's general thoughts on composition, rehearsal techniques and soloist
suggestions (included in all offers)
- Interviews with other musicians discussing Bob and his music (included
in all offers)
About This Offer
"El Co" ("Co" being a nickname Bob gave his friend and co-band-leader, Clark
Terry) is a three movement work written especially for the
Composer/Arranger album to feature Clark. The work begins with a
medium-up swing, followed by a slow ballad, and concludes with a samba. This
is an incredible composition that has – because of its lack of availability
– been overlooked for many years. So thankful that we are able to make this
chart available to the public!
This is the first time EVER that this chart has been made available and
hasn't been performed (outside of a couple times) since the early 1980s. The
chart has been re-engraved and edited directly from Bob’s original
manuscript score, and the original parts provided by the Vanguard Jazz
Orchestra. This work was included on the Mel Lewis and The Jazz Orchestra's
recording, Bob Brookmeyer: Composer/Arranger, which was not only a
pivotal recording in Bob's career, but from which every composition quickly
became a staple in large ensemble repertoire.
Score and parts will be available as downloadable PDF files in your
account immediately after purchase.
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THIS PROJECT WAS COMPLETED Jul 29 2006