You Think You're Funny

As recorded on Live at Catalina’s, Vol. 1 and Junk Wagon: The Big Band Album, You Think You’re Funny is a modern jazz blues with a bridge containing ample opportunities for improvising. After the melody is stated, there is a raucous seven-chorus saxophone soli (a transcribed solo of mine from a pocket trumpet solo) that is later accompanied by a twelve-tone row in the trombones and trumpets, a major second apart. After the sax soli, there is an open solo for Alto 1 with similar accompaniment. Then, Alto 2 solos over a half-time feel (a la Ornette Coleman’s, The Shape of Jazz to Come) before leading to a powerful shout chorus returning to regular time. This is followed by a drum solo that builds over an eight-bar vamp, as instruments and musical riffs are gradually layered in. This chart enables many soloists an opportunity to play and stretch out.

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