Sultry and Eccentric for Tuba and Piano
(2000)

Commissioned by:
a consortium of 50 sultry and eccentric tubists

premiered June 1, 2000 at the International Tuba/Euphonium conference 
Regina, Saskatchewan
Mark Nelson, tuba; Jan Grimes, piano

Instrumentation:
    tuba + piano

Duration:
     two movements, each ca. 4 min 15 sec

Comments and Reviews

...James Grant has provided us a lovely and challenging work that is accessible to a wider constituency without sacrificing musicality and technical demands... Sultry is at once identified as a tour-de-force “torch song” ballad that takes us back to the 1930’s with jazz harmonies and the movie icon of a woman singing in a glitzy evening dress while perched on a piano... the range (GG - f¹) is somewhat conservative allowing even talented high school students, especially on the smaller F tuba,  to master this movement... Eccentric: the energy and interplay are intoxicating but it will require practice to tame this movement... Grant has penned another outstanding winner...  

Mark Nelson
New Music Editor, Tuba Journal
[for full review, click here]

Program notes

SULTRY and ECCENTRIC for tuba and piano features the tuba in two distinctly different musical roles.  SULTRY is an expressive ballad in the spirit of the familiar jazz “torch song,” offering ample opportunity for the tubist to display warmth, melodic lyricism, and soul.  ECCENTRIC, on the other hand, requires considerable technical command as the tubist is faced with quirky leaps, nimble runs, and a relentlessly eccentric rhythmic and melodic palette.

To place an order to buy Sultry and Eccentric, go to Tuba-Euphonium Press.

To read about Three Furies for Solo Tuba, click here.

To read about Waltz for Betz in an arrangement for tuba and piano, click here.

To read about Quintet for Brass, click here.

To read about the 2001 Solstice/Equinox Commissioning Consortium -- four new intermediate- level pieces for tuba -- click here.

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