Suite of compositions for saxophone, guitar, and cello or bass. Trumpet is also indicated on the score, though it does not have its own line. The fourteen-page holograph score in the archive is missing its first two pages and begins with what is apparently the second piece in the suite, which are titled as follows:
II. Antecedent: Love/Understanding
III. Inquiry/Findings
IV. Tightenin
V. Oracle
The archive includes a cello part in holograph from “Tightenin” as well as archival audio.
From Marty Ehrlich: There is a lot of music here, and it would be wonderful to hear it. I would tentatively date this work to 1969–70, as this was the year painter Oliver Jackson, who was teaching at Oberlin College, invited Hemphill to perform on campus. Oliver introduced Julius to cellist Abdul Wadud, who was then a student at Oberlin. This meeting marks the beginning of the amazing creative collaboration that was to develop between Hemphill and Wadud.