Combo Charts and Short versions of tunes

Versions of Recital Tunes

Some of the jazz tunes (and tunes influenced by jazz idioms)I've written over the last 40 years or so.

Jazz Tunes (Swing, Fusion, & "Show tunes")

Demo recordings to get ready for the concert, plus live recordings from the gig. These are currently unedited, so a lot of talking needs to be removed, and probably some work done on the EQ.

Music & Chocolate Tunes

There is a glitch in the Finale file for this - the tempo periodically slows down and then returns to normal. I originally wrote this as a big band chart for the second semester of Jazz Arranging and Composing with Dominic Spera at IU back in 1981.

Lucky 13

One Day At A Time 2021 Draft

The working title had been "From the Void", but I'm not sure that really works with what this has become. I'm now thinking about "The Four Winds". The solos are for Flute, Flugelhorn, and Violin.

From The Four Winds for Contemporary Jazz Ensemble

Originally an assignment in a Berklee Online Class in Jazz Composition. For class I voiced one time through the form (Blues + Bridge) for a Birth of the Cool Ensemble. This one is for three horns.

Parke County Cool For 3 Horns - 2021

Big Band Chart using Garritan Samples. I wrote this last fall (2012) sometime.

Trying to Bop

ISU Jazz Combo performance -  a couple of wrong notes and a couple people missing the D.S. - but overall an enjoyable version.

Con Fusion (Live Performance)

File: 20230810 Luck13 Mix.01.limited
Composed: 1981
This version copyright 2023
Style: 70s-80s jazz fusion (essentially in 13/4)
Solos Joel Tucker, Garrett Fasig, Joseph Trahan, Sam Butler, Alex Wignall, Brendan Keller-Tuberg

Lucky 13 (From "Big 80's Suite")

From The Four Winds - 3 Horn Chart For Printing V3 No Trmpt Or Alto

Wrote this last week for my Jazz Composition class via Berklee on line.

3 For 3

A modal tune - E Dorian in the A sections and G Phyrgian in the B section. No solos, just the head.

En la Casa del Perro (Head only)

Head Chart performed at Music & Chocolate

A Nightingale Sang In Berkeley Square

Con Fusion

This is a good first draft of a Big Band + Vocalist chart. I still want to go through and do some chord substitutions during the last version of the form (and maybe a few in the solo section). The solo section will be voice during the first two A sections and the voice and Bass trading fours in the B and last A section.

With You All The Way

Unedited - need to get rid of chatter and play with the EQ a bit

Music & Chocolate Set 1

United

Draft of a combo chart on a tune I wrote in the 80s. The inspiration was a log drum patch on my DX-7. I started with the log drum riff (which is what piano is playing here)and wrote the horn line to go over the top of it.

Tolba - Version 8- Trumpet Trombone & Tenor

Trying to practice getting a lot out of something simple, in this case, four minor ninth chords. For variation I use different "melodies", vary one of the melodies, reverse the chord sequence, change the tempo (double time), and use some diminished chords in a canonical section. This version also transposes the riffs up a whole step in two of the solo sections

Con Fusion (Live Performance)

Tom J Johnson