The Orphan: Take 2

[Jim Besser]

I posted a version of this a while back, but we've been working on our arrangement and trying to get tighter.

 

It's from a recent rehearsal of The Squeezers: Randy Stein on English concertina, Gus Voorhees on 2 row G/D melodeon, me on Jeffries G/D Anglo.

 

Tune: The Orphan.

 

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/68325595/Test/Sq_11_17_15_Orphan2.mp3

 

Comments? Suggestions?

[CrP]

Hi, Jim:

That's a really nice, interesting arrangement. You've done a lovely job of sustaining the very slow crescendo while at the same time gradually increasing the complexity of the ornamentation and harmonisation. I particularly like the feel that comes across thanks to ornaments on the downbeats; it would have been easier & simpler -- less interesting, however -- to steal the fractional bits of time for ornaments from preceding notes just prior to the downbeats, but you didn't. Nice sense of ensemble there, too.

 

Craig