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This composition features vibraphones in many hip ways. The beginning section is disjunct n nature and featured melodic concepts that are split through all of the vibraphone players. The middle section of the composition features a repetitive driving texture in tutti treatment from the whole ensemble. An open section is provided for solos over a provided chord change.
Number of Players: 6
Difficulty: Grade 4
Instrumentation:
Player I: Vibraphone 1
Player II: Vibraphone 2
Player III: Vibraphone 3
Player IV: Vibraphone 4
Player V: Percussion (Gong or Large Cymbal, Bells, Drum)
Player VI: Any Bass Instrument
From his early days as a drummer in New Jersey, John Bergamo has never lost his desire to expand his interest in percussion. In 1959 John attended the Lenox School of Jazz in Lenox Mass. next door to Tanglewood, the summer home of the Boston Symphony. Under a scholarship, John studied drumset with Max Roach; had Percy Heath and Kenny Dorham as jazz band instructors; studied history and theory with Gunther Schuller, Marshall Stearns and George Russell; and was classmates with Ornette Coleman, and Don Cherry. In 1962 John earned an M.M. degree from Manhattan School of Music, followed by three summers in Tanglewood and time in New York City as a freelance musician.
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