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| Spherical (Jazz quartet song) |
Monkish number, hence the title (Sphere was Monk's middle name).
32 bar AABA "Rhythm" format, but chords all over the place. |
| Spherical (Quartet jazz number) |
Monkish tune 32 bar A A B A.
Monk's middle name was 'Sphere', hence the title. |
| Catwalk (Slow jazz walk) |
Dedicated to my son, Tristan Webber, one of Britain's top fashion designers, this A A B A is slinky in slow 7/4 time against a 6/8 or 12/8 beat and the melody based on 4ths
The contrasting bridge is is 4/4.
Imagine a model(s) strolling along the catwalk, all legs, boobs and floating diaphanous stuff.
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| Detour (Jazz number) |
Straight A A 32 bars. Sounds best as a big band number, but small groups have made a great job of it at times.
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| Dusky Maiden (Bossa nova) |
A 40 bar bossa. Imagine a long-legged, sun-tanned creature strolling along the sun drenched steets , gentle smile, and you've got it in one.
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| El Matadore (Flamenco jazz) |
Flamenco type tune with challenging chords.
Picture a bull fight and you've got what I was aiming for.
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| Evening Sunrise (Bossa nova) |
A 32 bar A A, gentle bossa in C minor. The song resolves at the end of each A section, but to a D instead of a C and the chords shift to Fm and Cm each time.
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| For three nights running |
32 bar A A in 4/4 and 3/4, hence the title.
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| For three nights running (Jazz number) |
Quartet number ,
A A. 8 bars of 4/4, 8 bars of 3/4 twice, hence the title "For three..." |
| Free Rolling (Shuffle in 7/4) |
7/4 roller. 123 1234. Lots of 4 part screeching and wailing. |
| Freeway |
64 bar A B C D in 6/8, here as a small group number, but works well as a big band number.
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| Funk Tank |
Highly chromatic melody and chords over just one chord C7 all the way, just to prove that jazz can be totally atonal, polytonal or non-tonal and still work. |
| Gettin' there (Jazz blues) |
Simple12 bar blues, except that the chords are all over the place.
The format is actually 2 choruses with the same melody notes played over 12 bars in F(ish) blues, then 12 bars in Bb(again ish) blues.
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| Highway Two (Jazz number) |
Swing number 4/4 A B A . The A sections are 16 bars long and the Bridge is 8 bars. Deceptive harmonies modulate 1/2 tone up halfway through both A sections., from Bb to B then bridge then B to C.
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| I got Rhythmss |
Chords nicked from I Got Rhythm, first part of melody from Oleo, but 4 bars of 3/4, 4 bars of 4/4. Bridge in 4/4 and last A in 3/4 and 4/4.
Solos in the same time(s).
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| Lady Longlegs ( jazz number) |
A A B A in 5/4 . I picture a beautiful woman dancing around in the........
park.
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| Me 'n' Mo |
Ballad dedicated to my Wife, Maureen. |
| Opening Number (Jazz song) |
32 bars in G at around 200 on the chords of How High the Moon.
1 chorus if theme, 1 chorus solo and then out chorus.
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| Other things you are. |
Simple 5/4 variation of All The Things You Are in Ab, using a repeated theme as the link throughout.
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| Over N'ova (bossa nova) |
A A B A . Each A is 32 bars long and the B section 16 bars.
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| Peanut (Jazz trio song) |
Straight jazz trio swing dedicated to my grandson, Oberon, now 8 months, who, like all babies, looked like a peanut in his prenatal scans..
The song structure is based on John Coltrane's Giant Steps, but I've used the A A 32 bar structure as an A A B A , placing the same A melody over the different 8 bar chords and the bridge over the 1st 8 bars.(whatever that all means)
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| Shibui (Jazz song for small combo) |
A slightly Japanese 5/4 piece originally written for alto in F minor. The first 2 bar phrase is inspired by Paul Desmond's opening solo phrase on his own composition "Take Ten" on the disc of that name.
Then the chords shift under the A A B A melody and the final A modulates in the last bars to F major.
Shibui is a Japanese term meaning, among other things, subtle, gentle artistry without effort.
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| Spherical (Jazz quartet number) |
| 32 bar A A B A. Monkish number, hence the title (Monk's middle name was 'Sphere'. |
| Spherical (Jazz quartet song) |
Monkish AABA.
Monk's middle name was Sphere, hence the title. |
| St Lucia ( Carribean lilt in 7/4 ) |
Memories of beautiful St Lucia, A A B A . An unashamed Carribean variation of "Catwalk" Each A section is very bluesy in slow 7/4 time against the fast Carribean rhythm, and the melody based on intervals of 4ths, while the contrasting bridge is is 4/4.
Because of the slow structure and the distinctive last 3 beats of each bar, it's much easier to solo in 7/4 than you'd think.
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| Time's Flow |
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| Viennese Walt (jazz waltz((almost)) ) |
At 11/4 time, this is not quite a Viennese Waltz, hence the title.
In true Brubeck / Desmond tradition the 11 is broken into 3 2 3 3, giving it a totally different feel to 3 3 3 2.
The melody is played in intervals of 6ths by trumpets, trombones and the solo is by jazz guitar.
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| Waltz for Wobby (Jazz Waltz) |
A A B A in F , 32 bars plus a 2 bar turn around on each chorus .'. 34 bars
Named after my daughter who wobbled when she walked before having corrective treatment on her baby feet.
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