Sixty-three-measure big-band arrangement (five saxophones, five trumpets, four trombones, and rhythm section) of a composition by Jack DeJohnette that was named for pianist Ahmad Jamal. Archive includes holograph concert score with extensive directions to copyist as well as a holograph score for backgrounds during the solo section from m.63.
From Marty Ehrlich: The process of writing the score in pencil or blue/black pen, then making corrections, dynamics and form decisions, and notes with a fine red pen and a ruler, is consistent in many of Hemphill’s scores from the 1980s or so onward. This score does not include the melody, which would have been in the lead alto part to the original work.