Description
| Title: |
Jourblues (Eng. title: “On Call Blues”) |
| Description: | A minor blues Dizzy Gillespie-style originally commissioned by Jan Oestman, MD; featuring a trumpeter presenting the theme and being the only soloist. The piece starts with a mystery-streaked intro with soloist harmon-muted fills, followed by the main theme. An interlude leads to the first choruses for the soloist – preferably still in harmon mute – who, after a band-exchange-chorus, comes back to solo some more with the harmon mute out. A band shout chorus is followed by the main theme in stop time by the soloist, building up to an ending that gives the soloist a cadenza to soar, before the band closes the piece in a very short statement. Notated key Bb-minor. |
| Soloist(s) or feature: | Main theme and solo feature written in Trumpet 4. |
| Reed setting: | 2 alto sax; 2 tenor sax; 1 Baritone sax. |
| Rhythm section setting: | Piano; bass; drum set. |
| Tp max range: | Tp1:  Featured soloist:  |
| Notated tempo (bpm): | 138 |
| Approx. playing time: | 5 min 30 sec |
| Difficulty (1 very easy to 10 very hard): | 6 |
