Paths Of Transmission

by Bill Graham

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This piece is for a sort of "Woodwind Big Band" type of ensemble. Typical big band instrumentation is a trumpet section, a trombone section, and a sax section, plus rhythm. Here, I instead used a flute section, clarinet section, french horn section, and sax section. I really enjoyed having all of those woodwind colors available.

When the reality of the pandemic set in, that it was going to be quite some time before I'd be able to be in a room improvising and interacting with other musicians, I decided to write some music with more arranged ensemble background parts to try and account for that lack of real time interaction. I embraced lots of ideas from early masters of big band arranging, like Don Redman, Fletcher Henderson, and Duke Ellington, mainstream arrangers like Nelson Riddle, Frank Foster, and Sammy Nestico, as well as relatively more modern arrangers like Gil Evans, Don Sebesky, and Clare Fischer, to name a few. In the last section, however, I dispensed with the written backgrounds entirely, and had Eric improvise along with my rhodes solo on all of his overdubbed wind parts, which makes quite an interesting ensemble texture.

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released July 29, 2021

Bill Graham - Composer, Arranger, Fender Rhodes, ARP Odyssey, Fretless U Bass, Shakers

Eric Fontaine - Saxes (Alto, Tenor, Bari,) Clarinets (Bb, Bass, Contra-alto,) and Flutes (C, Alto)

Dylan Reyes - French Horns

Janna Graham - Vibraphone

Radley Fricker - Drums

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Bill Graham Atlanta, Georgia

Bill Graham is a pianist/multi-instrumentalist, composer, improviser, and educator based in Atlanta, GA. His music combines elements of jazz, contemporary classical, and sometimes his own personal, harmonically dense version of pop.

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