Blues For Brother Lateef

More on Tribute- Twelve Tone Modal Chamber Concerto # 1:
This composition, origianlly called "Blues for Brother Yusef", was begun in 1998,
and was completed by Jimmy Sizzle in January of 2010. After the opening phrase
was written, there was an incubation period of over ten years before the concerto's
development and completion. When Archie finished "Tribute" the title was officially changed.

The fist movement is modeled after a drone in E. The opening phrase is in the E minor pentatonic
scale and is followed by the "neighbor" tone F. This is followed by two "diads." The first is the notes
A and D obtained by the guitar's harmonics on the seventh fret. The second diad is is E and F played
simultaneously. After this, the phrase repeats itself and resolves to the drone, E. The phrase and diads
are repeated for 24 bars while the soloist improvises over a melodic and harmonic response to the phrase's
call. Then there is a nine bar extended turnaround consisting of a different twelve tone harmonic structure.
The turnaround is actually four bars; however, preceding it after the 24 bar body is the "turnaround set up."
The set up is five bars of the diads F# and G for a half measure and then E and F for half a measure then
the single note E for one measure. This repeats one more time, so that is four measures. The fifth measure
is again F# and G for a half measure and E and F# for a half measure. Then the "real" turnaround is four
measures of a slightly different melodic phrase that also resolves to E. Then the 33 bar form repeats itself.