Hey everybody! Good job working "The First Circle" last night. I know the work was tedious and required a lot of patience on everybody's part while small parts across all sections were worked as well as transitions in and out of the chunks of the piece (like out of the sax soli into meas. 72, in and out of the solo, in and out of the repeated section (beginning of meas. 72), the end, the beginning, etc.
But the great news is we've now comfortably put the piece together and I get the sense that a lot of that chart is moving into muscle memory. That's good - it's not an excuse not to focus - but that's a good thing, I believe. We even removed the guidance of the bass drum on the downbeat at the beginning and we were okay.
Get ready to work some small parts on that chart next week and to really run through it a number of times on Monday, April 26th (the fourth Monday of April). That night we will be bringing the horns in around 8:30 to do a final rehearsal with them to clean any parts of Malaguena. Also, next week, we will be doing cleaning on a few things in "In the Stone" and "Ride the Wind," but I feel that these pieces are mostly comfortable to us now.
Once we are beyond the Duck Deli, we will start looking at the new charts at practices and as we get comfortable with them, we will start phasing out some of the older ones and replacing them with the new ones. Hopefully by mid-June we should have some new ones at a performance level.
As stated at rehearsal last night (if for whatever reason you were not there), the Duck Deli gig has been pushed back (time-wise) to 4 PM. Chris, the owner, called me yesterday and finalized that time. That means that the Doylestown Heat is no doubt on at 3:30 PM, and we are being followed by the final act, which is Jazz West, under the direction of Ed Protzman. This has to be one of his final performances around town as he's moving to Kansas City soon; this is his last year as band director of C. B. West.
And yes, May 23rd is a Sunday, not a Saturday. Gil Guglielmi, who runs the hosting band (Southampton), has told me that the event is from 3-6 PM, and that we will be in the latter half, so plan on playing any time between 4 and 6 PM that day. That gig is also outside.
I will send more information about directions and parking for the Duck Deli as soon as I have it, so check the perfomance info side-bar on the blog for that info.
Stay safe and see you all next week. :)
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