Fantail

Fantail has been transcribed from the Neal Hefti chart written for the Basie band's "Atomic Mr. Basie" album. It's an up-tempo swinger that features piano, alto and drums. Basie's opening piano solo passages have been written out as played and Frank Wess' alto solos have been transcribed as well, or the alto can improvise from the provided chords if desired. The alto solos are scored in the alto 2 part and the drum solos are improvised. The only adaptation is that the trombone section has been augmented to four parts, although the chart is perfectly playable with only 3 trombones (1, 2 and 4). This is not an easy chart to play and strict attention to dynamics and articulations is needed in order to produce the right outcome. There are no sax doubles and the 4th trombone is a bass which can be played on tenor trombone if necessary.