Product Description
Color-coded Lead Sheets for Jazz Combo. Separate lead sheets for Concert instruments and Bb instruments included with purchase. Color allows quick understanding of the sections and form of the tune, the rhythmic hits, and the counter-melodies. Special care has been taken to clearly indicate intros, sections, solos, and codas/outros. These form-based markings are in GREEN. Special care has also been taken to notate the rhythmic hits. Hits are notated above the staff, in RED. Finally, any counter-melodies or harmonies appear in reduced size, in BLUE.
"Complacency" starts out with an odd-time intro, before changing to Hard-Bop, then March, then Swing, and back to Hard-Bop. The idea is to keep the listener guessing. Just as the listener gets comfortable, or "Complacent" with one musical style, the tune changes style. After a solo section alternating between Hard-Bop and March, the tune reprises its themes and ends dramatically.
The composer/arranger, Rob Ames, is a soprano saxophone player from New Hampshire and the Boston, MA area. His album of original tunes, "Sounds From the Boardwalk", is widely available.