UNC Jazz Press

This chart takes elements from Duke Ellington's East St. Louis Toodle-Oo and the Allman Brothers' Whipping Post and creates the written-out effect of the modern "mash-up". There are direct metric juxtapositions (not modulations), but the overall pulse remains consistent. Consistent with Southern Rock style, there are two open sections in which two guitars solo simultaneously; rhythm sections are encouraged to change their approaches to each section. There are extremes of range in most parts--the lead guitar part goes to doulbe high D at the 22nd fret. This chart is difficult but is a proven crowd dazzler.

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After seeing the Beatles lip-sync Hey Jude on The Ed Sullivan Show, KEVIN BRUNKHORST begged enough to get his first guitar for Christmas at age 9. Later, he took clarinet lessons and played in the school concert band. After high school, he attended the Uiversity of North Texas where he studied jazz guitar with Jack Petersen and earned a Bachelor of Music in Composition in 1987. He then worked for eight years in the music industry. In 2001, went back to the University of North Texas. He spent two years in the famous One O'Clock Lab Band which recorded two of his charts. He also directed the L-5 Electric Guitar Ensemble. Upon earning a Master of Music in Jazz Studies in 2004 from UNT, Kevin was hired by St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia where he teaches jazz guitar, arranging, composition and music technology as well as directing two guitar ensembles.