You Well Need (2007)

Instrumentation: any instruments
Length: 6-8 min.
Premiere:
     April 26, 2008
     The Lily Pad, Cambridge, MA
     Agenda: Keith Kirchoff, piano; Michael Miller,
     bass clarinet; Dan VanHassel, electronics;
     Jesse Ward, electric guitar

Video: Live Performance, 1-24-09
     Test Pattern: Travis Alford, trumpet;
     Mu-Xuan Lin, voice; Dan VanHassel, piano

Program Note: You Well Need can be played by any combination of improvising musicians. The piece is a tribute to the great Thelonious Monk and is in traditional jazz form, although the material and solos are intended to be anything but traditional.