Benny Golson Big 6 Analysis

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Being a jazz standard and commonly played by a military and other marching bands, this piece was first composed by Benny Golson and was first recorded for Blue Mitchell’s Riverside album Big 6 on July 2nd and 3rd, 1958. This piece was influenced by New Orleans marching bands, and “starts in long meter form and transforms back into regular time. From Leonard Feather's point of view, “the theme with its slight bugle-call orientation, has a period quality that ties the work

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