Bruce Abbott Music Originals
Mid-Cape Maverick (Full Jazz Ensemble)
Categories: Latin, Modal (Lydian)
Description: Appropriate for high school through professional ensembles. Includes substitute parts for flexible instrumentation. Solos assigned to soprano sax and flugelhorn. Additional sheets with solo changes provided so that solos can be assigned to any instrument. Medium samba with 1/2 time rock interlude section. Mostly modal (Lydian). Length 4:30 with one solo (longer with optional additional solos).
Composed by Bruce Abbott (BMI).
Composed by Bruce Abbott (BMI).
Printed music for this composition is available to preview at SheetMusicPlus and SheetMusicDirect and can be purchased and downloaded there for $20 ($18 for full set of parts and $2 for the score.)
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About this piece: In 1981 my wife Lisa accepted a job offer on Cape Cod, about 2-1/2 hours from where we were living in Rhode Island. I was finishing my last year of graduate school at the University of Rhode Island, so we continued to maintain our apartment there and I commuted once or twice weekly between Rhode Island and the Cape. I spent many hours driving the Cape's main east-west highway, Route 6, also known as the "Mid-Cape Highway". My car at the time? A 1965 red Ford Maverick. The one in the photo is new. Mine was similar in that it had the same shape. But mine featured very faded paint and plastic compound that filled rusted out sections. The car had a steering column shift lever that refused to stay in park while the engine idled, so we always had to be watchful of its tendency to pop suddenly into reverse. That car was a maverick indeed! This song became a part of my mind's soundtrack as I made the drive to the Cape. This arrangement for full jazz ensemble was first written for and performed by the University of Rhode Island Jazz Ensemble.
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Enjoy!
Bruce
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Enjoy!
Bruce
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