Nomade a Clef
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I don\\u2019t usually write jazz tunes, but my friend Todd asked me to write one for him. It sounded like fun, and he had written several great pieces for me, so I took up the challenge. Nomade \\xe0 Clef is the result.
\\nTodd premiered it at this year\\u2019s Keys Please, with David Edminster on tenor sax, and I think they did just a marvelous job with it. They really made it fly. I only wrote a lead sheet (just melody and chords)\\xa0with a bare-bones piano part underneath to suggest voicings in the piano \\u2014 the rest of the work is theirs, including Todd\\u2019s solo intro and all of David\\u2019s development of the melody. I feel like this recording is their piece more than mine \\u2026 and that feeling is a good one, the pleasure of a successful handoff. I suppose this is the nature of jazz? No, it is the nature of all music written by one person and performed by another, no matter how explicitly notated or how little improvised: in playing music, if we play it well, we necessarily make it our own.
\\nRecorded live in concert, here is\\u2026
\\n\\nPaul Cantrell\\n\\n\\n
\\nNomade \\xe0 Clef\\n
\\nDavid Edminster,\\ntenor sax\\n
\\nTodd Harper,\\npiano\\n
\\n\\u266b\\nDownload\\n(3:41 / 4.8 M)\\n
The title means \\u201cNomad in a Key,\\u201d a wanderer with a home.
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