UNC Jazz Press

A minor blues with an eight-bar bridge, this medium- tempo swinger features tight, tense harmonies and brash bluesy lines. In the style of Oliver Nelson, it is orchestrated for trumpet, alto sax, tenor sax, trombone, piano, bass and drums.

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Trumpeter, composer, arranger and producer TIMOTHY CLARKE is one of the leading talents in the Northwest music scene. A native of Oregon, Tim is an emotive trumpet player whose playing is always soulful, creative and exciting. He has performed throughout the Northwest since 1984 in an extremely wide range of settings including large and small jazz groups, classical ensembles, salsa bands, pop bands and funk bands. Clarke earned a Master's Degree in Music Theory from the University of Oregon where he was a teaching fellow in both jazz studies and music theory. While attending the University of Oregon, he won a Down Beat Student Music Award for "Best Original Song/Composition," and won the Outstanding Composer/Arranger Award at the West Coast Collegiate Jazz Festival in Berkeley, California. During this time, he also published many works for jazz ensemble and marching band through UNC Jazz Press and Matrix Publications. In 1993, he was awarded a Jazz Study Grant from the National Endowment for the Arts to study composition and arranging from Clare Fischer in Los Angeles. Since 1992, Clarke has been an in-demand comoser and sound designer for computer games, having contributed to over 50 internationally-distributed games. Formerly an employee of Dynamix, Inc., and Vice-President of LoudMouth, Inc., he currently is President of Score! Music and Sound Design, producing original music, sound effect and voice files for CD-ROM products out of his own recording studio. He is also currently an adjunct instructor at the University of Oregon teaching advanced jazz arranging.