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Jazz Variants is a large work for percussion ensemble that showcases different treatments of one main jazz theme. This piece starts of with a cadenza like jazz section that is contrasted with a driving rock section that expands on the original theme.
Number of Players: 8
Difficulty: Grade 5
Instrumentation:
Player I: Vibraphone
Player II: Marimba
Player III: Bells and Tambourine
Player IV: Chimes, Bell Tree (or Wind Chimes), Guiro, Triangle, Bongos
Player V: Suspended Cymbal, Cowbell, Bass Drum, Tambourine, Conga Drum
Player VI: Bell Tree, Tambourine, Bongos, 4 Tom-Toms
Player VII: 4 Timpani
Player VIII: Drumset
John R. Beck has performed with a wide variety of ensembles in a diversity of musical styles. He joined the artist-faculty at the North Carolina School of the Arts in 1998, and is a percussionist with the Winston-Salem and Greensboro symphony orchestras, Brass Band of Battle Creek, and the Philidor Percussion Group. A former member of the United States Marine Band, he performed regularly with the National and Baltimore symphonies, Washington and Baltimore operas, and the Theater Chamber Players of the Kennedy Center.
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