The archive contains a holograph score and professionally copied parts in manuscript for flute, bass, and drums, with additional instructions to the copyist to make a guitar part, which is not included here. This eighteen-measure piece is in 2/2, with an intro in 7/4.
From Marty Ehrlich: Hemphill later used material from this score for the third movement of the “Drunk on God” suite on Julius Hemphill Big Band (1988). The score includes a note to the copyist, James “Jabbo” Ware, to include the harmonic material of “Basso / Pro Bird” where marked. Hemphill also performed this piece in a trio context at the Public Theatre in the early 1980s.