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(Level IV) High & Mighty - Serving as the title track
of a Cal State Long Beach Concert Jazz Orchestra recording, this work was
inspired by the composer’s first trip over the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco.
The music depicts the majestic span from the vantage point of a bird flying
overhead. The flight begins in the early morning as the sun rises over the
Berkeley hills. Soon you hear the hurried rush hour commuters, complete with
horns honking and the thumping of tires going over expansion seams in the
pavement. Eventually, the music transitions to a calmer midday traffic flow. To
suggest a feeling of height and open space, quartal and suspended harmonies are
organized into chord rows. Angular melodies with abrupt interval leaps are used
to represent powerful wind currents affecting the bird’s flight amidst the 3-foot
thick steel cables of the suspension bridge.
8 Brass
View all charts by Jeff Jarvis
Jeff Jarvis serves as Director of Jazz Studies at the Bob Cole
Conservatory at California State University Long Beach, and is President of the
California Alliance for Jazz. He maintains an ambitious international itinerary
as an S.E. Shires trumpet artist, honors jazz band conductor, and clinician.
Jeff’s early career as a studio trumpeter encompasses over 100 recordings for
such names as Lou Rawls, Michael Jackson, Melba Moore, and The O’Jays, followed
by numerous solo recordings. Live performance credits include Dizzy Gillespie,
Louie Bellson, Joe Williams, Benny Golson, Jimmy Heath, Henry Mancini, Slide
Hampton, Grady Tate, Rob McConnell, and Doc Severinsen. Jeff is frequently
commissioned to compose music for school, military and professional musical
groups. He has over 150 big band works published and has co-authored The Jazz Educators Handbook with Doug
Beach, a jazz piano book with Matt Harris entitled The Chord Voicing Handbook, and with Mike Carubia, Effective Etudes For Jazz, Volumes 1 & 2.
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