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“8 Ball, Side Pocket” is a contrafact based on “Corner Pocket” by the great Count Basie’s guitarist Freddie Green. A contrafact basically presents a new melody over a familiar harmonic structure, and as an alumnus of one of the later incarnations of the Basie Band, I wanted to use the arrangement components that made those Basie charts so memorable. The tune opens with a Basie-inspired piano intro, followed by a B-flat blues section which gives way to a tune that is not in the blues form. That’s followed by solos, then a soft ensemble soli, a big ensemble shout, and the endings—those characteristic piano gestures that have become known as “the Basie splanks.” This tune was fun to write, and fun to play.