Work · 1985
Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues
The Halley's Comet – Light Blue Blues; Light Blue Blues; Halleys Gamet (Kohler, OCR)
Title track of “Light Blues” (Air Mail, 1988). Pepl wanted harmonies and rhythm to be changed spontaneously through improvisation while playing.
- Authors
- Harry Pepl, Martin Bayer (arrangement), Clemens Salesny (arrangement)
- Genre
- jazz composition (blues)
- Line-up
- Quartet: alto saxophone, guitar, bass, drums (Air Mail)
- Publisher
- Pepl Daniel Musikverlag (Fullmax Publishing)
- ISWC
- T0010587275
- AKM work number
- 1246715
- Sheet music
- Lead sheet: Lead sheet in the estate (Dropbox /Harry Pepl/Noten/Jazz Tunes).
- Archive ID
- HP-W-0077
Kohler analyses the harmony: the theme moves from the first to the fourth degree in G major, is led via a II-V-I cadence to G sharp major and then begins again a semitone higher; the middle section sounds „mozartmäßig“ [“Mozart-like”]. The version on the 2015 double CD is listed with the AKM as version 2, with Martin Bayer and Clemens Salesny as arrangers (ISWC T0093203269). The Kresten Osgood Quintet played the piece at the Copenhagen Jazz Festival in 2023.
Recordings
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Light BluesAir Mail1988 · Amadeo · „The Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues“
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Harry Pepl & Clemens Salesny / Martin Bayer / Peter Primus Frosch / Agnes HegingerHarry Pepl (tape) & Clemens Salesny / Martin Bayer / Peter Primus Frosch / Agnes Heginger2015 · Fullmax Recordings · 4:58 · ATPK11500006
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Live At H15 StudioKresten Osgood Quintet2024 · ILK · „The Halley's Comet Light Blue Blues“
