One Second, Please – Elmo Hope
Subtly advanced and constantly unfolding, One Second, Please is an Elmo Hope classic. The original quintet arrangement from Harold Land's recording is available, as well as Minus You tracks from the New Stories/Bobby Porcelli version and a transcription of Bobby's solo.
- Recording: Harold Land - The Fox
- Recorded on: August, 1959
- Label: HiFi Jazz (J 612)
- Concert Key: D minor
- Vocal Range: , to
- Style: Swing (medium up)
- Trumpet - Dupree Bolton
- Tenor Sax - Harold Land
- Piano - Elmo Hope
- Bass - Herbie Lewis
- Drums - Frank Butler
Video
- Description
- Historical Notes
- Solos
- Piano Corner
- Bass Corner
- Drum Corner
- Guitar Corner
- Inside & Beyond
- Minus You
One Second, Please is quintessential Elmo Hope—advanced but subtle, with a melody and changes that are always on the move but held together with a hard-bop bounce. The form is a compact 32-measure ABCD, but the first three eight-measure sections are very different; D is the same as A. B and C include some unexpected modulations, notably a visit to D♭ minor at the start of C. In the last four measures of B the rhythm section has a series of breaks; the piano and bass punctuate the melody with hits and join the horns for a pickup into C. This pickup (beats 3 and "and" of 4 in the measure before C) is also played in the solos. The rhythm section also catches the melodic rhythm at the end of D, but the bass walks for the rest of the head. Our Condensed Score and parts show the piano comping rhythms that complement the melody.
About the arrangement: On this original recording there's an eight-measure intro in which the rhythm section vamps a rhythmic 2-measure pattern. The horns start the melody in octaves, harmonizing on a few phrases. In the second and fourth measures of C the tenor sax 2nd part has the melody notes below the trumpet harmonies. Besides 1st and 2nd parts for this arrangement, we have a Condensed Score which is also the rhythm section part, including all important rhythm section figures.
Click on the second album cover for the New Stories quartet version, available in Minus You format.
Click on Piano Corner for details about Bertha Hope's solo piano arrangement.
About the arrangement: On this original recording there's an eight-measure intro in which the rhythm section vamps a rhythmic 2-measure pattern. The horns start the melody in octaves, harmonizing on a few phrases. In the second and fourth measures of C the tenor sax 2nd part has the melody notes below the trumpet harmonies. Besides 1st and 2nd parts for this arrangement, we have a Condensed Score which is also the rhythm section part, including all important rhythm section figures.
Click on the second album cover for the New Stories quartet version, available in Minus You format.
Click on Piano Corner for details about Bertha Hope's solo piano arrangement.
For another song on "The Fox" check out Sims A-Plenty. Several other musicians have recorded One Second Please, starting with Ralph Moore on his 1988 album "Images." More recent versions are on bassist Nicolas Rageau's 2005 album "Made In France" featuring Grant Stewart, guitarist Roni Ben-Hur's "Keepin' It Open" (also from 2005) featuring Ronnie Mathews, Santi Debriano and Lewis Nash, and most recently tenor saxophonist Nicole Glover for her 2023 album "Plays" with vibraphonist Steve Nelson.
A solo piano arrangement by Bertha Hope is available. It features mostly a single-line melody, with two-handed voicings for the chord hits that punctuate important melody notes. The second half of the B section is a bit different from the quintet recording: instead of breaks, the left hand adds a chromatic "walk up" from A to B and back down over a D pedal. The melody at C is quite clear, without the quintet arrangement's upper harmony notes; the chord in the second measure of C is G♭m6 rather than G♭m7.
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- Recording: New Stories - Hope Is In The Air
- Recorded on: April 28, 1998
- Label: Origin (82434)
- Concert Key: D minor
- Vocal Range: , to
- Style: Swing (medium up)
- Alto Sax - Bobby Porcelli
- Piano - Marc Seales
- Bass - Doug Miller
- Drums - John Bishop
Video
- Description
- Historical Notes
- Solos
- Piano Corner
- Bass Corner
- Drum Corner
- Guitar Corner
- Inside & Beyond
- Minus You
New Stories' quartet version starts right on it with no intro. The rhythm section activity is a bit tighter than in the original recording, with the bass catching some of the rhythms with the melody and piano comping at A and D. Drummer John Bishop sets up many hits with short fills. The breaks leading into C are slightly different; most notably, the pickup into C is on the "and" of 2 and the "and" of 4, not on beat 3. The rhythm section still hits beat 3 on this pickup in the solo choruses.
Our E♭ melody part is written in the range where Bobby Porcelli plays the melody on the recording. Alto or baritone saxophonists could also play the entire melody an octave higher, as indicated "optional 8va" at the beginning.
Minus You tracks are available; click on Minus You for more details.
Our E♭ melody part is written in the range where Bobby Porcelli plays the melody on the recording. Alto or baritone saxophonists could also play the entire melody an octave higher, as indicated "optional 8va" at the beginning.
Minus You tracks are available; click on Minus You for more details.
Check out more songs from "Hope Is In The Air." More music by the New Stories is available on jazzleadsheets.com; check out the composer pages for Marc Seales, Doug Miller and John Bishop. Several compositions by Bobby Porcelli are also available.
A melody/solo CLIP transcription is available including everything Bobby Porcelli plays on this track: the in melody, a two-chorus solo, and out melody Detailed articulations throughout really help to show his distinctive phrasing and the subtle differences in the way he interprets the in and out heads. Bobby's solo flows effortlessly through the complex changes; he really uses the alto sax's entire range. He takes the last five measures of the out head up an octave and adds a diminished-pattern fill on the last chord.
Our Minus You melody parts include all important rhythm section figures. In addition we have a Piano and Bass part which works for both instruments; this part shows the melody as a cue, with important bass notes in circles below the staff. Our drum part includes the fills that set up the hits. Full track:
-- melody
-- alto sax solo 2 choruses
-- piano solo 2 choruses
-- out melody
MP3 minus melody [clip]
-- count off sets up the melody
-- play the melody
-- solo
practice edition: 4 choruses: 2 with full rhythm section, 2 with Bass and Drums
performance edition: 2 choruses
-- play the out melody
MP3 minus Piano [clip]
-- count off sets up the melody
-- comp/play figures for the melody
-- comp for the alto solo 2 choruses
-- solo 2 choruses
-- comp/play figures for the out melody
MP3 minus Bass [clip]
-- count off sets up the melody
-- walk/play figures for the melody
-- walk for the alto and piano solos (2 choruses each)
-- walk/play figures for the out melody
MP3 minus Drums {clip] - sticks throughout
-- count off sets up the melody
-- comp/play figures for the melody
-- comp for the alto and piano solos (2 choruses each)
-- comp/play figures for the out melody
-- melody
-- alto sax solo 2 choruses
-- piano solo 2 choruses
-- out melody
MP3 minus melody [clip]
-- count off sets up the melody
-- play the melody
-- solo
practice edition: 4 choruses: 2 with full rhythm section, 2 with Bass and Drums
performance edition: 2 choruses
-- play the out melody
MP3 minus Piano [clip]
-- count off sets up the melody
-- comp/play figures for the melody
-- comp for the alto solo 2 choruses
-- solo 2 choruses
-- comp/play figures for the out melody
MP3 minus Bass [clip]
-- count off sets up the melody
-- walk/play figures for the melody
-- walk for the alto and piano solos (2 choruses each)
-- walk/play figures for the out melody
MP3 minus Drums {clip] - sticks throughout
-- count off sets up the melody
-- comp/play figures for the melody
-- comp for the alto and piano solos (2 choruses each)
-- comp/play figures for the out melody
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Elmo Hope
June 27, 1923 – May 19, 1967
An imaginative pianist who valued subtlety over virtuosity in the landscape of bebop, Elmo Hope never achieved the fame that his close friends did, perhaps because he so rejected stylistic norms of the time. Elmo was a classically trained pianist with technique rivaling that of his childhood friend Bud Powell and a composer of music whose inventiveness and complexity approaches that of Thelonious Monk. In fact, Elmo, Thelonious and Bud used to hang out so much together in the late 1940s they became known as "The Three Musketeers." Powell, in Francis Paudras' book "Dance of the Infidels" is quoted as saying, "You gotta hear Elmo. He's fabulous. His stuff is very hard. He does some things that even I have trouble playing." Read more...
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