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Chameleon (Bb)

name

Chameleon (Bb)

category

main songs

leaders

Eze, Kirk (Noam, Tim)

structure

Opening: count 4 in, to brash all-horns intro

Ending: all hold 2nd to last note; leaders stops it, for brief gap; then bass line leadin notes to final max-volume blatt!-blatt! by all.

charts

• Chameleon Eb.pdf
• chameleon-winds-simple-parts.pdf
• chameleon-winds-simple-parts.pdf

notes

Fairly universal version (influenced more by Maynard Ferguson’s cover than the Hancock original) – bassline starts, nice funk drum. Bass joins melody on E section, then kicks back in for solo. Eventually everyone joins in at C again.

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