related works
Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Piano
Scoring:
pf
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Mixed ensemble (2-12 players); Saxophone with multimedia; Electronics with different instruments; Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring:
sax-a tape/sax-a cemb perc
Pet Rescue : Version for saxophone quartet (with optional soundtrack) / Chiel Meijering
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring:
4sax tape(ad lib)
Take a Wild Guess : for saxophone quartet with multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Genre:
Chamber music
Subgenre:
Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring:
sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-b (db dr ad lib.)
composition
Buku : for alto saxophone with multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis
Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter
(Composer)
Description:
Most of my works with soundtracks are based on speech grooves. But Buku is mainly based on short musical sound bytes: a hit, a roll or a lick, taken from original jazz recordings: inspiring moments of great intensity, energy and beauty. Buku is about the soul of the alto sax and at the same time it is a tribute to three alto giants: Charlie Parker, Cannonball Adderley and Art Pepper. Meet them in Buku!
The title ‘Buku’ refers to a remark by Charlie Parker about Dizzy Gillespie in an interview with Paul Desmond. Nobody seemed to know what Parker is referring to. Probably Parker said ‘beaucoup’, the French word meaning ‘a lot’, so Dizzy was playing a lot…