Edition: JAZZ BIG BAND ARRANGEMENT

Description: SWING/FUNK - ADVANCED Treacherous is an advanced level chart that floats between an up-tempo swing and a half-time funk. The composer's intention was for the work to represent the treacherous experience of driving through a severe winter storm late at night after hours of studio time. There is quite a bit of stop-time, with the rhythm section tacit for measures at a time. Featured is a trombone section/bari sax soli that is a "chops buster", 1st tenor solo over a wicked line that morphs into a tutti setting-up the straight 8ths funk feel, a pointillism section over the freshly established funk groove that may need to be conducted, a 4th trumpet blow over the funk, and lots of rhythm section "parts". Charts are for piano, bass, drums, 4 trumpets, 3 trombones, bass trombone, and 5 saxes standard. As recorded by the Gairo-Rissmiller Jazz Orchestra on Sea Breeze Records, 'Treacherous.'