The Music
Bruce pointed out that after awhile, you could start to pick out patterns in the music.
(I don't know if it was Oscar's legendary numeric system as much as the fact that you can only syncopate 4 sixteenths so many ways.)
Oscar would also voice in very rudimentary ways, nothing more complicated than a minor7, dominant7, or 6th chord, and always written in a stacked cluster. So you were never playing a weird extension on a chord. I'm sure it was this way by design.
The "Phase One" charts were just head charts with a simple melody over a guitar and bass riff and open blowing.
It seemed like the "Phase Three" charts were more complicated in that they were longer and had different sections in them. Also, Oscar started putting the trombone part playing countermelodies against the upper horns.
"Phase Five" just seemed to be a compositional extension of "Phase Three"...trickier lines, longer forms, less for the rock and roll crowd to hold their hat on.
I don't recall that Oscar ever wrote anything we couldn't play.
(I don't know if it was Oscar's legendary numeric system as much as the fact that you can only syncopate 4 sixteenths so many ways.)
Oscar would also voice in very rudimentary ways, nothing more complicated than a minor7, dominant7, or 6th chord, and always written in a stacked cluster. So you were never playing a weird extension on a chord. I'm sure it was this way by design.
The "Phase One" charts were just head charts with a simple melody over a guitar and bass riff and open blowing.
It seemed like the "Phase Three" charts were more complicated in that they were longer and had different sections in them. Also, Oscar started putting the trombone part playing countermelodies against the upper horns.
"Phase Five" just seemed to be a compositional extension of "Phase Three"...trickier lines, longer forms, less for the rock and roll crowd to hold their hat on.
I don't recall that Oscar ever wrote anything we couldn't play.
posted by JH at 7:08 AM
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