VWR
My grandfather’s name was Virgil Wilder Rice.
I wrote this tune the day that he died.
To me, he was one of the greatest people to ever live and i could never do justice to any of the stories about him.
click here to hear it: VWR
Here is the lead sheet:
Theoretically, i don’t have much to share about this one. When i wrote it, i was in college and really into Monk.
I heard from one of my instructors about Monk writing major blues tunes sometimes.
I also was just beginning to understand about chord substitutions, and how Bartok used harmony.
I misunderstood both of those things at the time and this tune came out of that combined misunderstanding.
That is a beautiful thing.
