Steve Dekker is one of the greatest trombonists I've played with, and a treasure of the KC scene. Legend says he plays good electric bass and writes his ass off too.
This Dan Gailey chart is one my faves in the Boulevard book. We've been playing it for years.Roger Wilder's piano solo is sublime.As usual. Compare to the Miles/ Gil, and Keith Jarrett versions.
Sure was... I played in Phil's band at Berklee during my last three semesters there back in '84-'85. He used to bring in stuff like this for us to sight read and play once to make us get our act together and then we'd never see it again. About halfway through the semester with a concert on the horizon coming about six weeks later he'd pick what all he wanted to do at the concert that was always the last week of classes before exams - and then the band would really get down to business. One semester this was one of those things we had to sight read and my last semester there he programmed it on the concert. Happy days, hard to believe for me was 39 years ago now. (!) O.M. actually has an old-timey jazz chorale verse / intro that for some reason Kendor has never bothered to include in their publication of it. But the original version that Phil published himself back in the 70s included it, and it's in Phil's recordings of it here on YT. I just wish Kendor would get its act together and include the whole piece as Phil wrote it. Considering they want nearly $100 a chart now for anything that's REAL or fit for accomplished players beyond a high school level it's the least the publisher could do for us.
