Composition for saxophone quartet (two alto, tenor, and baritone), found in Music Manuscript Notebook 6 (MMN6). It is untitled in the notebooks, but the professionally copied parts are titled “Void.” It was posthumously recorded by the Julius Hemphill Sextet on At Dr. King’s Table (1997).
Found on: At Dr. King’s Table.
From Marty Ehrlich: On the envelope containing the parts for “Void” is a list of ten Hemphill compositions for saxophone quartet. Given the presence of the pieces “R&B” and “Steppin'” on this list, it would be dated no earlier than 1979. It is an insistent, if not obsessive, piece of music that takes one, well, into the Void.