Product Description
Color-coded Lead Sheets for Jazz Combo. Separate lead sheets for Concert instruments and Bb instruments included with purchase. Color allows quick understanding of the sections and form of the tune, the rhythmic hits, and the counter-melodies. Special care has been taken to clearly indicate intros, sections, solos, and codas/outros. These form-based markings are in GREEN. Special care has also been taken to notate the rhythmic hits. Hits are notated above the staff, in RED. Finally, any counter-melodies or harmonies appear in reduced size, in BLUE.
"The Syzygy" is a ballad, written in 1981, when there was a rare, nearly perfect five-planet Syzygy of Venus, Earth, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn. The Voyager planetary missions were launched in 1977 to take advantage, as a similar Syzygy would not occur again until 2160!
The composer/arranger, Rob Ames, is a soprano saxophone player from New Hampshire and the Boston, MA area. His album of original tunes, "Sounds From the Boardwalk", is widely available.