Big Band (5/5/4) + Male Vocalist

• Style: Saloon Blues, 12/8 Slow Swing
• Grade 5: Collegiate
• ~7-10 minutes
• Soloists: Trombone 2, Tenor Sax 1, although could be any instrument

This arrangement of Avery Parrish’s blues piano solo on “After Hours” is designed to feature the piano and male vocalist. It has bluesy soloist lines and a vocalese sax soli written over one of Sonny Stitt’s solo choruses on the recording of this on “Sonny Side Up”. This chart has a lot of unconventional techniques and blues material that will definitely take some time to work out with your band. Once everything makes sense though it will be a lot of fun for everyone to play. I wrote the lyrics myself telling a story of a man who is sad and lonely so he turns to extra work to take his mind off of his depression. He’s really singing the blues as they were intended, and that’s the one thing that is most important about this chart and story: The Blues.