Work · 1987
More Far Out Than East
More Fare Out Than East (AKM); Ballentine for Valentine und 125/250 (laut Kohler dasselbe Stück)
Track on “Cracked Mirrors” (the renowned European jazz label ECM, 1988), 3:14 according to mica (Austria's music information centre). The theme consists mainly of semitone steps without a recognisable harmonic basis; ECM describes it as related to free jazz in the spirit of Ornette Coleman.
- Authors
- Harry Pepl
- Genre
- jazz composition
- Line-up
- Trio: guitar, flugelhorn, drums (Cracked Mirrors); mica: sextet
- Publisher
- Pepl Daniel Musikverlag (Fullmax Publishing)
- ISWC
- T0010589737
- AKM work number
- 1248132
- Sheet music
- Lead sheet: Lead sheet in the estate (Dropbox /Harry Pepl/Noten/Jazz Tunes, shared file with “Ballentine for Valentine” and “125/250”); Heckel reproduces the manuscript in B flat and a transcription (pp. 98 to 100).
- Archive ID
- HP-W-0119
About the title: Heckel calls the title an example of Pepl's verbal wit; it recalls Duke Ellington's "Far East Suite" and the standard "East of the Sun (West of the Moon)". What exactly Pepl meant cannot be established. "Far out" is also jazz slang for "extreme, way out".
