related works

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

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Piano
Scoring: pf

Petite Suite de Répétition (Concert version) : for flute, violin, viola and cello / Hans Koch

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: fl vn vla vc

The journey has just begun : for flute, clarinet, piano, violin and violoncello / Chiel Meijering

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: fl cl pf vl vc

Heartbreakers : for sax quartet, piano, bass, drums (ad lib.) and multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis

Genre: Chamber music
Subgenre: Mixed ensemble (2-12 players) with multimedia
Scoring: sax-s sax-a sax-t sax-b (dr pf db) soundtrack

composition

Pitch Black : for brass quintet with multimedia / JacobTV - Jacob Ter Veldhuis; arr. Steven Verhelst

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.