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Derrick Gardner - 8 Ball, Side Pocket

from Still I Rise by Derrick Gardner

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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.

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credits

from Still I Rise, track released July 10, 2020
Soloists: Tristan Martinuson (tenor sax), Zen Zadravec (piano)

Saxophones:
1st Alto-Mark Gross
2nd Alto-Greg Gatien
1st Tenor-Rob Dixon
2nd Tenor-Tristen Martinuson
Bari-Ken Gold

Trumpets:
1st- Bijon Watson
2nd-Jeff Johnson
3rd-Curtis Taylor
4th-Andrew Littleford

Trombones:
1st-Vincent Gardner
2nd-Joel Green
3rd-Anthony Bryson
4th-Bill Green

Rhythm Section:
Piano-Zen Zadravec
Bass-Luke Sellick
Drums-Curtis Nowosad
Guitar- Kasey Kurtz

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