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A well disguised swinging twelve bar blues. A Few Dozen is a sortie into counterpoint using the traditional form of a 12 bar blues. The guitar and bass both play a 12 measure melody which contains two statements of a 12 tone row. (Hence the name A Few Dozen.) These independent voices work with a system of hexatonic groupings which give a soloist greater flexibility for improvisation within serial based structures.
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Mainstream Jazz ballad. Reflection may sound like a typical jazz ballad but it is in fact a 12 tone melody. This piece, as well as Dialog and 7th Street are based on an interval grouping of a half step and a minor 3rd, which creates interesting melodic and harmonic palettes for composition. The guitar solo is made up entirely of this interval pattern which changes to fit each harmony as it passes by.
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Starts out as up-tempo swing and veers into funk. Great bass hook. 7th Street is based on the harmonic and melodic implications of a half step and a minor 3rd. In this composition the improvisation explores the superimposition of this 3 note grouping, this time over a static harmonic foundation.
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Atmospheric, ambient free improv. Numbers Prelude is an improvised piece based on the overall character of Numbers. Background guitar loops give this a spacey, floating setting.
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Atmospheric, moody, hypnotic, ambient. A contemporary œNaima.”Numbers creates a mood through the use of background guitar loops. The dark feeling of Numbers is created by four 3 note groupings of chords playing a serial based melody. The hypnotic bass line is also derived from the notes of these groupings.
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Twelve-tone rumba clave! A real mover.Broadway Y2K was inspired by the urban roar the artist hears outside his window every day on Broadway. It is a 12 tone composition employing a rumba clave. Deditcated to the great bassist Harvie Swartz whose Jazz Latin group œEye Contact” introduced Mr. Arnold to these Latin rhythms. Broadway Y2K is based on the same 12 tone system using a basic 3 note cell of a half step and a major third.
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For those who appreciate great improvisation and great interaction. This one goes everywhere. Dialog is a 12 tone contrapuntal composition. Believe it or not, the unaccompanied bass solo is played entirely without overdubs or processing although Ratzo does use his chin to play the underlying bass figure behind the drum solo. The use of these extended techniques shows that very musical and brilliant effects are possible beyond the bass`s traditional vocabulary.
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