Wake the F__k Up -Matt Marks

Alex Temple, "Slightly Less Awkward People" (2008)

Sara Budde, bass clarinet
James Moore, electric guitar

studio recording, 10.6.08

More info:
http://www.alextemplemusic.com/2008/01/slightly-less-awkward-people/

Slightly Less Awkward People

Inspired by some of my favorite licks that Charles Mingus ever wrote, this solo baritone saxophone piece is meant to swing hard. 

Mingus wrote and performed some of the most influential jazz music in our history, and his colossal library of repertoire spans an enormous breadth and depth of emotions. The passion, the rage, the soul, the fiery energy. Mingus was a man possessed. This piece serves to be my own small reflection in tribute to the "Angry Man of Jazz."

Live world premiere performed by the composer herself, Shelley Washington, in November of 2016.

MO'INGUS

"Little more than kitschiness, pretense, and vulgarity"
—Oberon's Grove

Slightly Less Awkward People

Alex Temple

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