November Afternoon – Tom McIntosh

This is from the third Jazztet recording. After a June 30, 1960, Newport Jazz Festival appearance, Tom McIntosh was the new trombonist recording with The Jazztet starting on September 16, 1960, for their "Big City Sounds" album. Mac had arrived on the scene in 1959, composing and arranging for both James Moody and Milt Jackson. November Afternoon was his first original recorded by The Jazztet. He had done one other album with The Jazztet previously, "The Jazztet & John Lewis," in December 1960 and January 1961.

In addition to playing with and recording with the Jazztet in 1961, Art Farmer found time to record his own quartet album "Perception" for Argo in late October.

Recorded Quintet Arrangement: This arrangement has an interlude between soloists and quite a few specific rhythm section parts. Therefore, a full score and separate parts are necessary, so this printed sextet arrangement is available at ejazzlines.com.

Transcribed Trumpet Solo: Our audio excerpt begins at the start of Art's first chorus trumpet. The first chorus of each horn soloist starts with the piano and bass playing the "Charleston" pattern you hear behind Art. As you can also hear, this goes on for ten measures, dividing the 16-measure A section as 10 - 6. The 40-measure solo chorus structure goes through more interesting twists and turns before the soloist's second chorus, which is all swing.