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    The Jazz Compositions of Edo Castro - For Small Ensemble
    The Jazz Compositions of Edo Castro - For Small Ensemble
    The Jazz Compositions of Edo Castro - For Small Ensemble
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    The Jazz Compositions of Edo Castro - For Small Ensemble

    By Edo Castro

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    This book is a culmination of the music that I have written over the past 36 years. This is not all of the music I’ve written but the ones I felt represented major turning points in my writing. The way I have presented the material here is very much like that of the original “Fake books” - with a single staff and chord symbols above the written melody below. It was my intent to leave out bass parts on certain songs and leave it up to the performer to create their own bass lines. Granted I did write down a few bass parts for certain tunes but in essence left out most of my created bass parts so that the performer could draw on their own ideas. My only other note per song was to establish the "feel" by denoting "Funk" or "Straight Eight Feel", etc. I encourage you to refer to the original recordings from my CDs whenever possible as a starting point.

    Enjoy exploring my musical world. - EDO
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBookBaby
    Release dateMar 1, 2013
    ISBN9781467563697
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      Preface

      I grew up with a piano in the house. No one was really musically inclined and there’s no recollection of anyone seriously playing it. There are vague memories of my mother playing Clementine while I sang along, but I can’t confirm that. So the piano was dusted and cleaned once a week, otherwise sitting idle. Then one day I opened the piano and just started to play, making up songs, alone at the piano. No words, just instrumental meanderings. I was untrained and unguided. My ideas were simple and naïve. My grandmother even paid my cousin one summer to give me piano lessons.

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