Fragmentary score in Music Manuscript Notebook 4 (MMN4) for an expanded big-band ensemble (piccolo, flute, clarinet, alto, tenor and baritone saxophones, three trumpets, trombones, cello, bass, and percussion). The score includes a sketch for a fourteen-measure introduction, followed by twenty measures of a soprano saxophone part written over a ii/V chord progression.
Buster Bee
Composition for two saxophones, recorded on the duo album with Oliver Lake, Buster Bee (1978). An alto saxophone part in Hemphill’s hand is in Music Manuscript Notebook 4 (MMN4). The archive also includes a photocopy in holograph of an additional saxophone part, annotated with the name “Oliver Lake,” on manuscript paper that also includes saxophone parts for the compositions “S*“, “Fertility,” “Twelve Gates,” and “8464Z.”
Found on: Buster Bee.
Bumpkin
Composition for saxophone quartet (soprano, alto, tenor, and baritone). The archive includes professionally copied parts, which Marty Ehrlich used to assemble a score that was published by Subito Music in the Saxophone Quartet collection. The piece was recorded posthumously by the Julius Hemphill Sextet on At Dr. King’s Table (1997).
Found on: At Dr. King’s Table.
Bordertown
This composition was recorded and performed by different ensembles throughout Hemphill’s career. It sometimes bears the subtitle “(San Antonio).” The archive includes scores and parts for the big-band version of this piece, which appears on Julius Hemphill Big Band (1988). It also includes the saxophone quartet version (recorded by the World Saxophone Quartet on the 1984 album Live in Zurich). The archive also contains a part for bassoon and a piano arrangement with the annotations “Julius Hemphill, Composer” and “Good Boye Music ASCAP.”
Found on: Live in Zurich, Julius Hemphill Big Band, Live from the New Music Cafe.
From Marty Ehrlich: This folder contains the holograph scores, in pencil with directions in red pen added afterwards, for the big band version as performed by the Julius Hemphill Big Band in 1980 at the Public Theater, New York City. There are two additions in Hemphill’s hand that were made for the 1988 recording, one for background parts to be played in the solo section, and one for a harmonization of the coda. One score page is annotated with Jamaaladeen Tacuma’s name and phone numbers. Bassoonist Janet Grice’s name is written on the saxophone quartet score. This annotation may refer to a performance in 1981 that included Grice, at Soundscape in New York City .
Body
Composition for trumpet, tenor saxophone, cello, and percussion, recorded as “Body” on the quartet album Flat-Out Jump Suite (1980). See the archival folder for “Flat-Out Jump Suite” for a score of this piece bearing that title, without indications for percussion. There is also a transposition of the trumpet part for alto saxophone in Marty Ehrlich’s hand.
Found on: Flat-Out Jump Suite.