A song with a happy sound—the pentatonic melody with its catchy rhythms creates a very bright mood. One World has a 2-feel Latin groove, but not in a specific style such as samba or calypso; check out the recording to get a feel for this song's rhythmic structure. There is a vamp intro, 16 measures in total, that repeats a two-measure bass figure; an "answering" piano phrase comes in at the second half of the intro, and the bass figure continues through the first eight measures of the head. The head begins with a 16-measure A section, and a B section with the same melody but slightly different changes. This B section is extended with a four-measure "interlude," starting with a break filled by a patterned descending line, leading into the next section. C is 10 measures, with a more lyrical melody, and D is eight measures of F major vamp like the intro.
The A section changes are quite simple: eight measures of Fmaj7, four measures of D♭7 and back to Fmaj7. In the B section, the first four measures have the same melody over E♭maj7. The C section changes are mostly descending II-V7s. Solos are on the head form, with the 2-feel groove throughout including where there is a break in the head. The coda vamps and fades on the same figure as the intro, repeating the same melody line as the break at the end of B in the head; these are open repeats without a fixed number of measures between them. We show an alternate ending that takes this phrase to a final B♭7.
About the arrangement: In the original quartet recording, the piano plays a harmony part, mostly in fourths, below the soprano sax melody on the A and B sections. This two-part arrangement also works in a quintet setting, so second parts are available for this as well as a condensed score. These also include a second part countermelody through the C section; this comes from Renee's manuscript but is not played on the recording. Bassists and drummers should read the condensed score, as should pianists if there are two melody instruments playing the quintet arrangement. We also have a quartet piano part as played by Renee on the recording, including some left-hand fills around the right-hand second part.
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One World" was
Billy Drummond's first recording with bassist Larry Grenadier. The two played together on three albums in December 1994: tenor saxophonist Seamus Blake's "Four Track Mind," alto saxophonist
Jon Gordon's "Ask Me Now" (which includes the first version of Gordon's composition
Joe Said So), and "Two Tenor Ballads" by Mark Turner and Tad Shull. Later in October 1994, Drummond recorded on "Something Like This," a quintet album by trumpeter Keiji Matsushima featuring pianist
Rob Bargad.
