The charts listed below are available for purchase from Sheet Music Direct (SMD) and Sheet Music Plus (SMP). Track titles are in bold, and albums/release years are mentioned in the description below each title.
album: New Dream (2024) / format: score and parts (tenor sax, piano, bass)
“Echoes of Cyan” is a tribute to the tune “Blue in Green” by Bill Evans (or Miles Davis?). Its 15-bar form is somewhat unusual, echoing the 10 bars in “Blue in Green.” The (mostly) descending stepwise melody is also reminiscent of the beautiful ballad recorded by Bill and Miles on Kind of Blue (1959).
The sheet music includes: a version for quartet (tenor sax, piano, and bass notated, drums implied) and a version for trio (piano and bass). Tenor saxophone part provided.
House of Granate [ SMD | SMP ]
albums: New Dream (2024), Live in Japan (2021) / format: score and parts (alto sax, tenor sax, piano, bass)
“House of Granate” is a blues in D minor.
The sheet music includes: a version for quintet (alto and tenor saxophones, piano, and bass notated, drums implied), a version for quartet (tenor sax, piano, and bass), and a version for trio (piano and bass). Alto and tenor saxophone parts provided.
albums: New Dream (2024), Live in Japan (2021) / format: lead sheet
“Ikigai,” a Japanese word often translated as “sense of purpose” or “reason for living,” is a place at the crossroads of passion, mission, vocation, and profession. A blissful, centered, balanced condition; a state of harmony in which a person can live their life to the fullest, thus truly making a difference within and around them. The numerous tonal shifts (a series of major key modulations) in the tune are based on several multi-tonic systems (Coltrane changes): a four-tonic system in the A section, two three-tonic systems in the B section, and three two-tonic systems in the C section. These can be interpreted as a musical depiction of the agitation, angst, and excitement that are surely to be felt as one searches for and strives to reach one’s “ikigai”…
album: New Dream (2024) / format: score (solo piano)
This solo piano arrangement is a jazz reharmonization of “Nicaea,” a tune originally written by English clergyman and hymnwriter John Bacchus Dykes (1823-1876).
album: New Dream (2024) / format: score and parts (piano, bass)