As Long As You’re Living

This tune challenges vocalists to deliver a poignant lyric with emotion and intention while they experiment with an odd meter within the familiar form of a 12-bar minor blues. This arrangement begins rubato, offering an opportunity to explore phrasing, then has a lyric solo opportunity, an open improvisation section, and finally opens up to a shout-chorus style section in the second half.

Purchase of this arrangement includes: vocal part with chord changes, separate partially notated parts for all band instruments (mixture of written sections and slash notation), and an mp3 of the demo recording. Part tracks, rehearsal tracks, re-voiced options, and different instrumentation can be made available upon request.

Music by Julian Priester and Tommy Turrentine
Lyrics by Oscar Brown Jr.
Arranged by Kathryn Sherman