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For some reason we never seem to fully escape our formative influences. In this case it is the Dave Brubeck Quartet’s 1959 Time Out album, featuring the smooth, lyrical alto saxophone sound of Paul Desmond, as well as time signatures not yet widely heard by the general public on a jazz recording.

Why Grooves Unspoken? Because we do not speak music, we play (or sing) it.

• Audain: Grooves Unspoken; tenor or soprano saxophone version; computer-set 

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• Audain: Grooves Unspoke; tenor or soprano saxophone version; computer-set 

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• Audain: Grooves Unspoken; alto or baritone version; computer-set 

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• Yvette Audain: Grooves Unspoken 

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This work was purpose-written upon request from one of the schools I work in, as a companion piece for my solo work Hazine (Treasure). The musical material here needed to be in a similar vein: that is, using exotic modality in a Middle Eastern/Mediterranean style, which in this case alternates with a more jazz-fusion-based, contemporary sound.

The title originates from a tale by the great storyteller Nasreddin Hoca, called ‘Hide and Seek’. The protagonist says at the end “If you do not look in your own heart first, then you will not find wisdom”. My work consists of 5 short, intuitively-composed ‘meditations’, linked together by either solo saxophone cadenza-like passages, or pianistic interludes.

To reflect a little upon the purpose of this work’s composition, the last of said meditations is actually ‘old wine in new bottles’, so to speak: it revamps and then develops, in a written-out improvisation, a melody and accompaniment I composed when in my final year of high school, seeing as I was writing this for an advanced student in their own final year of high school.

Yvette Audain

• Audain: Meditations Upon Nasreddin Hoca; computer-set 

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• Canzona: Music for Younger Players 

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A short one movement work for alto saxophone comminised by Mary-Jane Malloch.

• van den Broek: Sunny; computer-set 

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• Alex van den Broek: Sunny 

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