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- Overture. A 32 bar tune using a ride riff and a timpani.
- I Want to Fool Around with the Blues/Blue Drums. Two, 12 bar tunes connected staying in the blues structure using the tom toms to represent the three chords of the blues. Drums playing harmony.
- Good Vibes Blues. A 12 bar tune played as a duet with drums playing melody.
- Floyd’s Drum Lesson, or From Jo Jones to Elvin Jones. A 32 bar tune broken into groups of 8.
- Well you Monkn’t. A piece for Monk, using the two bass drums to imply harmony.
- Sweet Max Suite. A four part suite for Max Roach. Part 1) conversation, a follow up to his piece titled “Soliloquy”; part 2) To The Max, a development of some of his signature themes; part 3) Free Max, a development of some of the patterns he has played in his free jazz performances; part 4) Elvin Smokin like a Roach, if Elvin Jones structured his solos like Max.
- Meditations on Mingus. A 32 bar tune. The A sections are in 6/8 and use a call and response pattern between snare and toms, while the bridge is in 4/4 where I try to emulate the interplay between Mingus and Dannie Richmond with the use of my two bass drums.
- DrumBach. A 3 part concerto for drum set. If Johann Sebastian Bach had been born in 1885 in New Orleans and played drums, maybe this is what he would have composed.
- Dance Suite. A four part suite comprised of Doo Wop Drums, Jazz Dance, On the Rim, and The Country Speaks and the City Answers.
