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Theme For Doris – Harold "Tina" Brooks

This is a beautiful, melodic tune related to Horace Silver's Nica's Dream, with an even longer form.

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Recording: Tina Brooks - True Blue
Recorded on: June 25, 1960
Label: Blue Note (BLP 4041)
Concert Key: C minor
Style: Latin/swing (medium up)

Trumpet - Freddie Hubbard
Tenor Sax - Tina Brooks
Piano - Duke Jordan
Bass - Sam Jones
Drums - Art Taylor

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Tina Brooks - Theme For Doris

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Paris Jazz Repertory Quintet live in 2010.

Description

Our audio excerpt starts right on the melody. You'll hear the rhythm section play a four-measure repeated pattern under the melody. This is also used as the rhythm section intro and as the ending of the arrangement. It's clearly notated in the C treble clef lead sheet. Tina plays the whole melody on the recording above the trumpet harmony part. Both horn parts are indicated in all lead sheets. This gives you a lot of flexibility in performing it. It works great as a one-horn quartet piece, or, in a quintet format, any horn can play either the melody or the harmony part.

Historical Notes

On June 13, just before this session, Tina recorded "The Connection" with Howard McGhee on trumpet, Freddie Redd on piano [as I. Ching], Milt Hinton, bass, and Osie Johnson, drums. "The Connection" was an off-Broadway play detailing the struggles of drug addicts waiting for their "Connection." Both actors and musicians were in the play, and pianist/composer Freddie Redd wrote the music.

Tina wrote this composition for his older sister Doris.

Harold "Tina" Brooks

Jun 7, 1932 – Aug 15, 1973

Harold Floyd "Tina" Brooks and his twin brother Harry were born in Fayetteville, North Carolina, becoming the youngest of eight children. The family moved to NYC in 1944. By then, Harold was already being called Tina (pronounced Teena), a grade school nickname that came from his tiny or teensy size. Around this time, he started playing the C Melody saxophone, studying with his 10 year older brother David "Bubba" Brooks, Jr. Bubba had become an established R&B tenor saxophonist, and in late 1950, Tina subbed for Bubba for a few months in pianist Sonny Thompson's R&B band. Tina made his first recording with this band. Read more...

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