Description

I wrote “Geet’s Beats” while working at a jazz camp with the legendary big band drummer, Ed Shaughnessy. Our faculty combo needed something swinging and hard-driving that featured our drummer so I came up with this “Art Blakey-like” tune. After we auditioned the tune and Ed approved, he asked what the name was and I didn’t have one. I asked him if he ever had a nick-name and he said that in his early days he used to often hound the bandleaders for his paycheck. “Geets” was slang for money and eventually people just started calling Ed, “Geets”. Thus, “Geets’ Beats” was born!

The form is AABA and the As should be hard driving shuffle/swing. The bridge section should be played in the BeBop style. Soloists are encouraged to take multiple solo choruses and the non-soloing horns should play the backgrounds on each soloist’s last chorus.

The ideal instrumentation for this chart is trumpet, tenor sax, trombone, piano, bass, drums. The instrumentation for this arrangement is:

Part 1 – in C, Bb, Eb and Bass clef

Part 2 – in C, Bb, Eb and Bass clef

Part 3 – in C, Bb, Eb and Bass clef

Guitar

Piano

Bass

Drumset

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