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Julius Hemphill : Composer

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August 6, 2018 by Editor

Compositional provenance uncertain. Music Manuscript Notebook 1 (MMN1) in the Julius Hemphill Papers includes a piece by this title; it is a part for cello, not in the composer’s hand, with instructions for improvisation.

From Marty Ehrlich: The cellist for this part would surely have been Abdul Wadud. I have wondered if this could be a composition of his. The notebook also indicates that two more pieces are to be performed in conjunction with this one. One is a ten-bar, B flat-blues, with the chord progression of II, V, I, IV, probably referring to Hemphill’s “Kansas City Line.” The other is Hemphill’s “The Hard Blues” in E-flat. (It is not the John Coltrane composition of the same name.) 

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