Question on Phil Woods: "Three Improvisations"

[Razzy]

The piece for saxophone quartet. I listened to a recording of this by the New York Saxophone Quartet. There is some sort of insert in the first movement not present in the version I have purchased. It occurs actually between 2 and the & of 2 in measure 38, and is kind of like a latin break to feature the alto in a solo. Then it resumes to the note it left off at in the original score. I'm not talking about the optional extension, but rather an insert that doesn't even exist in my version of this piece.

Did NYSQ just make this up? Doubtful. So, then, did Phil have this in the original version and then remove it? Add it later? I'm really curious, because I feel like I'm missing out on a very interesting segment of this piece and I will be playing this in the spring for my school's concert and for a recording session shortly after. Thank you for any help. I really didn't know of any specific category that could address this topic so I placed it here.

-Ian

[DD]

Razzy
Do you refer to the ascending triplet/turn figure
(scat "ba-doollya do ba-dooylya do-ba do-wee")
which immediately follows the predominating one measure descending 8th note bari figure?

Please excuse my syllables. I'm working from memory and a 1975 tape of our Pittsburgh Quartet performance.

If so, that was in the manuscript version we got from the NY Quartet in the early seventies. There may have been edits since then.

[Razzy]

Yep, that's exactly it. Any ideas as to how I can find this?

[DD]

I don't have a copy of our music. Maybe Dr. Bob Luckey got a copy at the time - he played tenor with the group. Try him at the Lafayette LA university website.
That was the first time anyone understood what I was singing! :lol: