Composer

Andrew Watkins-Alcocer

Arranger

Andrew Watkins-Alcocer

Category

Big Band

Level

Medium Advanced

Style

Swing

Ranges

Duration

7:00

Description

Talea’s Colour is a blues-inflected large ensemble work blending semi-atonal techniques with traditional jazz vocabulary. The title references the Baroque isorhythmic motet, where the “talea” is a repeating rhythmic cell in the bass and the “colour” is a recurring pitch series.The instrumentation mirrors a traditional big band with bass clarinet substituted for baritone saxophone, and drummers should be comfortable moving between rock-adjacent feels and swing.