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Punchy Funk Style

Crotchet=90
Main drum part is in the 5th stave. Drums can also follow other parts in top stave.
Drums follows melody in phrase 3 ie. 12/8 + 2/4 + 12/8 x 2

Blues for Lamby

Swinging Blues
Crotchet=120
here is a second time line from the second quaver the first two 4 bar phrases.
ie. 1/8 + 3/8 x 10 (felt as a swinging 3/4 starting halfway through on the and of one)
Bars 9 and 10 have a offbeat pedal ala Walkin. Lamby liked to turn the beat around here.

Brilliant Corners (Thelonious Monk) (No chart at the moment. I will track one tonight.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TLEPQZIVOg
Every chorus alternates either slow or double time tempo (the whole form and harmony).
Slow form 8 bars, 7 bars, 7 bars.
Fast form 8 bars, 7 bars, 8 bars.

ERH (No chart at the moment. I will track one tonight.)

33/8 (4/4 + 3/8 + 2/4 + 2/4 + 2/8 + 3/8 + 2/8 + 3/8 + 2/4)
Crotchet=160
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Friday the 13 (Thelonious Monk) (No chart at the moment. I will track one tonight.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xYtO1dsCm4M

Ghosts (Albert Ayler) (No chart yet)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQzJsGAHsVM&feature=related

Give Me Some Skin (Manglesdorf)

Free Swing
First two lines are rubato on cue with a ruckus on each fermata. Crotchet approx. 175 BPM
Bridge is double time swing in time (walking on the quavers). Double time feel is Crotchet=300.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCqnzdb_rWk (different tunes but a reasonable model of the style
of the original)
AABA in head – Free for solos

Kosta Tszyu

Acid Rock (hard hitting) Half time feel

Crotchet=220
Drum breaks at the top of the tune.
On cue follow chart.
Bar 41-44 is a break before each solo and at the end of the tune.

Mannenberg (Abdullah Ibrahim)

Marabi (South African Township)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nX7w9pzhlHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cToTDzflwYA
Crotchet=100-110
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hiQ0uyqySBg
Straight up.
Morning Star

Slow Jazz Ballad (straight 8)

Crotchet=60
In bars 4, 5 & 6 of the form the chords arrive one beat ahead of the bar line.
12 bar form. Can be heard as a blues.

Most (Ida Hansen)

5/4 with 6/4 bridge

Swung. I like to hear the bridge as a 4 over 6 shuffle sometimes.

Peace Be With You

Slow Heavy Swing

Crotchet=70
The feel is 3/4 + 3/4 + 1/4. Rolling triplet feeling.

Ruby, My Dear (Thelonious Monk)

Slow Jazz Ballad (swung)

Crotchet=65
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jmwjpHJHolM
Straight up.

Shuffle Boil (Thelonious Monk) (No chart at the moment. I will track one tonight.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlKvSranA3U

Sonnet to Come (Ida Hansen)

13/8
Straight.

Sunrise (Charukesi for KRM)

Straight 8 cymbal feel with hints of double time.

Crotchet=120
There are two time lines.

1. 4/4 four bar phrase (straight eight)

2. 12/8 2 ½ bar phrase + 2/8 (even shuffle)

Sunrise in Monreal (Rabih Abou Kahlil)

Traditional Arab 10/8

Crotchet=150-200
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmtOfU0QGIk
The feel needs to be 3/8 + 2/8 + 2/8 + 3/8 not 5/4 with syncopations.
Straight up.

Song of the Water Boy

Slow Samba-Reggae
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_YzOuQZkcPM
Crotchet=120
Bars 9-16 is the cue to solos and close. Fine on and of 4.
Wuruwuru

Rubato ballad
Rubato Crotchet=60
From beginning simmer to a boil at bar 16. The Pot should then boil over until bar 22 when the heat
is turned down.
Free solos on Afro 12/8. Dotted Crotchet= approx. 90

Yackiya

Part A
Afro 10/8
Crotchet=170
First two bars are the bell pattern. Then next two are the bass line.
The drums can play from this and/or a quintuplet 4/4 funk feel (20/8?).
This idea is inspired a little by Robin Eubank’s song Matatape.
http://www.amazon.com/gp/recsradio/radio/B0000021KO/ref=pd_krex_dp_001_001?ie=UTF8&track=
001&disc=001

Part B
Mambo
Crotchet=170
The last E of the bass in Part A becomes the pickup ponche for the new mambo feel.
The melody is in 2 ½ bar phrases.