Fragmentary score for a quintet for clarinet, trumpet, alto saxophone, bass, and drums, found in Music Manuscript Notebook 5 (MMN5). One of the compositions in a list of pieces found in the notebook on circus-related themes. The archive also includes parts in holograph for clarinet, alto saxophone, trumpet, and bass—as well as a partial score in holograph, with additional parts for tuba and guitar, along with alternate bass parts (four in total). There are numerous versions of this work in the archival audio collection, performed with diverse ensembles.
From Marty Ehrlich: The professionally copied guitar part doubles the melody line in the alto sax until the concluding phrases of the 1st and 2nd endings. (This part was surely used for the JAH Band, which in its first incarnation had one guitar.)
Amidst the multitude of different parts, the accompaniment figures change, but the piece’s melodic material, and its voicing among three horns (later two horns), stays consistent. What emerges from these documents, as well as from stories Hemphill’s side musicians have told me about watching him write out parts, is that Hemphill would sometimes compose parts in his head and notate them separately, without adding them to a score.