Weird Jazz

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The assignment: create a jazz piece to be played in between plays in a One Act Festival.

The question: what kind of jazz?

The answer: something like Charlie Parker.

The dilemma: I love Charlie Parker, but wouldn't something....different...be
more appropriate to the plays at hand, and the time.

So: I wrote a pretty Charlie Parker-esque piece, with piano, bass, drums
and alto sax. Very fast, many notes, funky chord changes. Recorded it.

Then I wrote this piece. Check it out--here is a recording of the piece in an mp3 file.

[2MB file - click and hold on link (Mac) or right-click (PC) to download to disk, or just click and listen]