related works

Red, white and blues : Dutch new blues pieces, for piano, volume 1

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Killer Heels : for saxophone-orchestra and audio track / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring: 2sax-s (or 1sax-s/1sax-sopranino) 2sax-a 2sax-t 2sax-b sax-bs tape (opt. el-gtr-b/drums)

Hoe hard is hout : for soprano, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, computer and sound generators, 1989 - 1992 / Geurt Grosfeld, Henri Broeren

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone; Electronics with different instruments; Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring: 4sax computer electronics

Pimpin' : for baritone saxophone and multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Saxophone with multimedia
Scoring: sax-b soundtrack

composition

Pitch Black : for sax-quartet and multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Other authors:
Veldhuis, Jacob ter (Composer)
Description:
The speech grooves for this piece come from from one of the last interviews with trumpet player Chet Baker, before his tragic death by falling from an Amsterdam hotel room window in 1988.
Baker talks about his past as a drug addict, his life in prison (‘it was pitch black in there you know’) his first audition with Charlie Parker (‘among 40 other trumpet players - no no, I mean 60‘) and
playing without drums (‘more cool’). So speech grooves are the leitmotifs in Pitch Black.