Note from the composer: Little Lucas is dedicated to my 2 year-old son. It is a happy medium swinger that captures his mischievous nature with the deceptively difficult movement of major 7th chords in the A sections. The melody notes are, for the most part, the 7th of each chord and these notes follow a diminished scale sequence--going up a half-step and then down a major third repetitively. The B section features a 2 five sequence that moves in major thirds. Originally, I wrote this tune for a quartet date. For this arrangement I added a line played by the bass and piano at the end of each A section and voiced out the horns in open drop 2 voicings for a clear and cheery sound.
Instrumentation | Number of Parts | Pages Per Part |
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CONDUCTOR SCORE (FULL SCORE) | 1 | 8 |
TRUMPET (1ST PART) | 1 | 2 |
ALTO SAX (1ST PART) | 1 | 2 |
C TREBLE CLEF (1ST PART) | 1 | 2 |
TENOR SAX (2ND PART) | 1 | 2 |
ALTO SAX (2ND PART) | 1 | 2 |
TROMBONE (3RD PART) | 1 | 2 |
TENOR SAX (3RD PART) | 1 | 2 |
BARITONE SAX (3RD PART) | 1 | 2 |
BASS | 1 | 2 |
DRUMS | 1 | 1 |
GUITAR | 1 | 2 |
PIANO | 1 | 3 |
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