
Instrument Combinations for Jazz Orchestration
In the composition "I Am That I Am", composed for the 22" instrument Afrikan Arkestra, I had the opportunity to experiment with a method I picked up from one of David Baker's books "Arranging and Composing". On page 12 of his book, he listed examples of brass and woodwind combinations. Depending on how you stacked the instruments, these various instrument combinations could make the group of instruments sound like either a brass or woodwind section. I chose to experiment with