Weekend With Othello composed by Rafe Lyford
STYLE: Jazz
INSTRUMENTATION/PERSONNEL: Rafe Lyford - Trombone Max Wendt - Tenor Saxophone Jim Guckenberg - Drums Matt Netter - Bass
Shortly after Julie and I moved to Minnesota, Julie went out of town one weekend on a work related trip. This was the first time that her pet cat Othello and I had spent alone for an extended period of time. The first theme came to my head during that weekend and the rest at a later date. Othello was a very vocal cat which added much drama to the household and his life (a.k.a.: he was spoiled!). This tune is a representation of four important phases during Othello's daily routines: the wake up phase after one of his frequent cat naps; the demanding phase (the objects of his demands vary greatly depending on localized stimuli!); the desperate, melodramatic, begging phase that develops when he realized that neither Julie nor I are paying much attention; and then the \"bouncing-off-the-walls\" phase which involved him bolting around the house and leaping onto furniture, many times running head first into the wall. I'll let you figure out which section is what.