Parts for the Whole
The advent of multi-track recording meant you could more easily craft one part at a time, with or without some polyphonic reference point like a piano. The more you focus on one part the more you see it as a microcosm of the entire piece; Soloing one track is a window into the rest of it.
Ideally parts can be compositions in themselves. If they are dominant enough, and saturate the listening experience, you could leave them out and you'd still hear them in your head.
The chant/lyric in Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" was initially banned by Columbia, but the horn parts as we know them are its palimpsest.
Ideally parts can be compositions in themselves. If they are dominant enough, and saturate the listening experience, you could leave them out and you'd still hear them in your head.
The chant/lyric in Mingus' "Fables of Faubus" was initially banned by Columbia, but the horn parts as we know them are its palimpsest.
