Duet for alto saxophone and cello, performed by Hemphill with Abdul Wadud on the album Live in New York (1978). It was likely a collective improvisation; there is no known score.
Found on: Live in New York.
Ink
Composition for saxophone quartet using woodwind doubling (alto and tenor saxophone, bass clarinet, and baritone saxophone). The instrumental parts in the Julius Hemphill Papers bear the names of the members of the World Saxophone Quartet, though the piece was apparently not recorded by that ensemble. The Julius Hemphill Sextet recorded it on the posthumous album At Dr. King’s Table (1997).
Found on: At Dr. King’s Table.
Impulse
Composition in 32-bar AABA form for saxophone quartet (two alto, tenor, and baritone), recorded by members of the Julius Hemphill Sextet for the posthumous album At Dr. King’s Table (1997). The archive includes a score in holograph as well as parts (some professionally copied, others evidently in the hands of the individual performers) for saxophones, trumpets, trombone, French horn, violin, viola, and two unidentified instruments.
Found on: At Dr. King’s Table.
Images II
Composition for large ensemble (saxophone section, with strings, brass, woodwinds, and rhythm section). The fifty-one measure score in the Julius Hemphill Papers includes the subtitle “Sketch II,” which is the title for movements in the large-scale pieces “Ralph Ellison’s Long Tongue” and “Long Tongues: A Saxophone Opera.” There are various annotations indicating orchestration, backgrounds, and ways in which the material is to be extended through improvisation. The archive also includes a full set of parts, not professionally copied, and not in holograph.
I Got It Bad (And That Ain’t Good)
Composition by Duke Ellington, arranged for big band by Hemphill. This arrangement was performed in concert at Town Hall in New York City, on July 6, 1980, as part of an Ellington tribute concert titled “The New Music Remembers the Old Master.” There is no known copy of the score or parts for this arrangement, though the Julius Hemphill Papers includes recordings of the concert.
From Marty Ehrlich: I was in the saxophone section at this concert, for which a fourteen-piece ensemble performed Ellington pieces as arranged by Hemphill, Oliver Lake, Leroy Jenkins, and Muhal Richard Abrams.