The title page and scores of the compositions Slowly & Still as performed on the Community Librar... more The title page and scores of the compositions Slowly & Still as performed on the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" by Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne available from Bandcamp
The score, title page and parts of the composition Temporary Farewell by Jan Steele as performed ... more The score, title page and parts of the composition Temporary Farewell by Jan Steele as performed on the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" available on Bandcamp.
The title pages, score & parts of Ivory, music by Jan Steele, lyric by Dorothy Steele, as perform... more The title pages, score & parts of Ivory, music by Jan Steele, lyric by Dorothy Steele, as performed on the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" available from Bandcamp, and on the Practical Music EP "Nobody Buty You" & the DSA LP "Desert Island Dusks.
Title page & Score of Rhapsody Spaniel as performed on the LP "Jan Steele/John Cage: Voices & Ins... more Title page & Score of Rhapsody Spaniel as performed on the LP "Jan Steele/John Cage: Voices & Instruments" Obscure No 5 and the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" by Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne and available from Bandcamp
Nobody But You & Everyday by Janet Sherbourne - Title Pages & Scores as performed on the Communit... more Nobody But You & Everyday by Janet Sherbourne - Title Pages & Scores as performed on the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" by Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne and available from Bandcamp
All day I hear the noise of waters Making moan Sad as the seabird is when going Forth alone He he... more All day I hear the noise of waters Making moan Sad as the seabird is when going Forth alone He hears the winds cry to the waters' Monotone. The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing Where I go. I hear the noise of many waters Far below. All day, all night, I hear them flowing To and fro. James Joyce (being No. XXXV of "Chamber Music" 1907). Words printed by permission of The Society of Authors as the literary representative of the Estate of James Joyce. This song was recorded for commercial release around July 1974 at Basing St Studios, London, engineered by Rhett Davies & Guy Bidmead & produced by Brian Eno. It was originally released in 1976 on the Obscure Series, being the first track on "Jan Steele/John Cage: Voices & Instruments", Obs 5 (1975 Obscure Records Ltd).
Title pages, score & parts of Distant Saxophones by Jan Steele as performed on the 1976 Obscure L... more Title pages, score & parts of Distant Saxophones by Jan Steele as performed on the 1976 Obscure LP "Jan Steele/John Cage: Voices & Instruments" and on the Community Library "Distant Saxophones" available from Bandcamp
In 1969, while I was studying for a short time in the music department of King's College, London ... more In 1969, while I was studying for a short time in the music department of King's College, London University, I went to a lecture at the London School of Economics by the UK jazz musician Ian Carr about the music of Miles Davis. Ian was just forming his jazz-rock fusion group Nucleus, and the core of his lecture was the revolutionary nature of Miles Davis' attempts to fuse jazz and rock in his album In A Silent Way. Although I have never been happy with this genre (I like Joe Lovano's characterisation of the improvisations in jazz-rock fusion as being the soloists trying to think of something to do until the tune comes back!) nevertheless I was knocked out by the snippets of In A Silent Way that Ian played and I immediately went out to buy the album, and I practically wore it out! I was particularly impressed by the track It's About That Time and was intrigued by the way Joe Zawinul combined predictability and surprise with a chord sequence in 3/2 which was overlapping the bass riff which occupies two bars of 4/4. I attempted to write several riff based pieces using this technique all of which were failures-until I got to York University when in late 1971 or early 1972 I found the riff of Burnt Time (mostly in 7/4), and then found a way of imposing a mostly 3/4 chord sequence over the top. We used this piece as a basis for improvization in a number of jazz groups that were formed at this time at York. The song Deathward can optionally be segued into Burnt Time. The two pieces appear this way on the Community-Library CD Distant Saxophones No CL26 available as download or hard copy at www.community-library.net. This score is available as a free data file with the CD. Alternatively email me for the full score and parts and for other free scores.
Title pages, scores & parts of Deathward by Jan Steele & John Lyle Donaghy as performed on the Co... more Title pages, scores & parts of Deathward by Jan Steele & John Lyle Donaghy as performed on the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" by Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne and available from Bandcamp.
This simple open piece was written for a Channel 4 documentary Family Fragments by Jeff Baggott a... more This simple open piece was written for a Channel 4 documentary Family Fragments by Jeff Baggott and Alan Fountain, and was used to accompany a night scene-hence the name. The recording from the film was originally released on the Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier LP "Desert Island Dusks". In the recording the bass riff is played on piano, the chords are played on a Korg Polysix, with pink noise and the use of the ring modulator of a Korg 770, an improvized saxophone part and many of the sounds processed through an early Roland digital reverb unit.
The sleeve/programme notes of the three compositions by Jan Steele on the LP Voices & Instruments... more The sleeve/programme notes of the three compositions by Jan Steele on the LP Voices & Instruments, Obscure No 5 released 1976, plus scores and parts by Jan Steele and Janet Sherbourne released on the Community-Library LP Distant Saxophones released 2022.
The title page and scores of the compositions Slowly & Still as performed on the Community Librar... more The title page and scores of the compositions Slowly & Still as performed on the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" by Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne available from Bandcamp
The score, title page and parts of the composition Temporary Farewell by Jan Steele as performed ... more The score, title page and parts of the composition Temporary Farewell by Jan Steele as performed on the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" available on Bandcamp.
The title pages, score & parts of Ivory, music by Jan Steele, lyric by Dorothy Steele, as perform... more The title pages, score & parts of Ivory, music by Jan Steele, lyric by Dorothy Steele, as performed on the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" available from Bandcamp, and on the Practical Music EP "Nobody Buty You" & the DSA LP "Desert Island Dusks.
Title page & Score of Rhapsody Spaniel as performed on the LP "Jan Steele/John Cage: Voices & Ins... more Title page & Score of Rhapsody Spaniel as performed on the LP "Jan Steele/John Cage: Voices & Instruments" Obscure No 5 and the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" by Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne and available from Bandcamp
Nobody But You & Everyday by Janet Sherbourne - Title Pages & Scores as performed on the Communit... more Nobody But You & Everyday by Janet Sherbourne - Title Pages & Scores as performed on the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" by Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne and available from Bandcamp
All day I hear the noise of waters Making moan Sad as the seabird is when going Forth alone He he... more All day I hear the noise of waters Making moan Sad as the seabird is when going Forth alone He hears the winds cry to the waters' Monotone. The grey winds, the cold winds are blowing Where I go. I hear the noise of many waters Far below. All day, all night, I hear them flowing To and fro. James Joyce (being No. XXXV of "Chamber Music" 1907). Words printed by permission of The Society of Authors as the literary representative of the Estate of James Joyce. This song was recorded for commercial release around July 1974 at Basing St Studios, London, engineered by Rhett Davies & Guy Bidmead & produced by Brian Eno. It was originally released in 1976 on the Obscure Series, being the first track on "Jan Steele/John Cage: Voices & Instruments", Obs 5 (1975 Obscure Records Ltd).
Title pages, score & parts of Distant Saxophones by Jan Steele as performed on the 1976 Obscure L... more Title pages, score & parts of Distant Saxophones by Jan Steele as performed on the 1976 Obscure LP "Jan Steele/John Cage: Voices & Instruments" and on the Community Library "Distant Saxophones" available from Bandcamp
In 1969, while I was studying for a short time in the music department of King's College, London ... more In 1969, while I was studying for a short time in the music department of King's College, London University, I went to a lecture at the London School of Economics by the UK jazz musician Ian Carr about the music of Miles Davis. Ian was just forming his jazz-rock fusion group Nucleus, and the core of his lecture was the revolutionary nature of Miles Davis' attempts to fuse jazz and rock in his album In A Silent Way. Although I have never been happy with this genre (I like Joe Lovano's characterisation of the improvisations in jazz-rock fusion as being the soloists trying to think of something to do until the tune comes back!) nevertheless I was knocked out by the snippets of In A Silent Way that Ian played and I immediately went out to buy the album, and I practically wore it out! I was particularly impressed by the track It's About That Time and was intrigued by the way Joe Zawinul combined predictability and surprise with a chord sequence in 3/2 which was overlapping the bass riff which occupies two bars of 4/4. I attempted to write several riff based pieces using this technique all of which were failures-until I got to York University when in late 1971 or early 1972 I found the riff of Burnt Time (mostly in 7/4), and then found a way of imposing a mostly 3/4 chord sequence over the top. We used this piece as a basis for improvization in a number of jazz groups that were formed at this time at York. The song Deathward can optionally be segued into Burnt Time. The two pieces appear this way on the Community-Library CD Distant Saxophones No CL26 available as download or hard copy at www.community-library.net. This score is available as a free data file with the CD. Alternatively email me for the full score and parts and for other free scores.
Title pages, scores & parts of Deathward by Jan Steele & John Lyle Donaghy as performed on the Co... more Title pages, scores & parts of Deathward by Jan Steele & John Lyle Donaghy as performed on the Community Library LP "Distant Saxophones" by Jan Steele & Janet Sherbourne and available from Bandcamp.
This simple open piece was written for a Channel 4 documentary Family Fragments by Jeff Baggott a... more This simple open piece was written for a Channel 4 documentary Family Fragments by Jeff Baggott and Alan Fountain, and was used to accompany a night scene-hence the name. The recording from the film was originally released on the Disques du Soleil et de l'Acier LP "Desert Island Dusks". In the recording the bass riff is played on piano, the chords are played on a Korg Polysix, with pink noise and the use of the ring modulator of a Korg 770, an improvized saxophone part and many of the sounds processed through an early Roland digital reverb unit.
The sleeve/programme notes of the three compositions by Jan Steele on the LP Voices & Instruments... more The sleeve/programme notes of the three compositions by Jan Steele on the LP Voices & Instruments, Obscure No 5 released 1976, plus scores and parts by Jan Steele and Janet Sherbourne released on the Community-Library LP Distant Saxophones released 2022.
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