Get the album!: http://yourenigma.bandcamp.com/album/hippology

Le sheet music - http://www.mediafire.com/?s8rop4rdgwndr3d

Sometimes it takes but a single request, lads. Still, I figured if I put up sheet music to "New Manehattan" I ought to follow suit with the rest of my jazz tunes. Follow the link to a lead sheet of the head and a score of the piano vamp. I haven't transcribed the solos, however. I wouldn't want you rob you guys of the precious musicianship training involved in sorting it out by ear, heh. Or what worse? Playing your own. Get cracking!
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Le Mp3 - http://www.mediafire.com/?m95vbas25oaggbc

This fandom needs more jazz, more I say! So take a trip with me, not to the heart, but the bloodstream of any city where there is an underbelly; a sinuous network of stone and steel that sings shrill with each turn. A canine vagabond by the name of Dodger (of 'Oliver and Company' fame) once told us that the city's got a beat. "A'rrrrrhythm." Here's one of them.

After all the quasi-serious business of the Konzertstuck, I decided to turn back to jazz for a bit of respite. I have a bi-weekly commute into Manhattan to attend my graduate classes and my most reliable mode of transport is the love-it-or-hate-it NYC subway. There's a beauty to those incessant "clicks and clacks" of steel against steel as they slip in and out of precise rhythm. With that in mind, I sought to glorify this found sound in song. Yes, those are real trains in the beginning: The A and 6 trains respectively for you New Yorkers.

In general, Jazz has a rich history of honorific train anthems, the most popular of which most of you already know: Billy Strayhorn's "Take the A Train," a tune made world famous by the Duke himself. I'm personally fond of Basie's "9:20 Special." Lawd knows if it shows. Nevertheless, this is my contribution to that proud compositional pantheon...but with ponies.

The music itself is straight-ahead jazz, hip-hop-esque beat be damned. It still combines a bit of combo-style with a bit of big band because "why can't we have both?" And everypony gets a solo!

The thing that interests me is that train travel basically predominates in the show as the preferred form of transportation. Wherever you go, you go by the tracks. In that respect, this is my portrayal of that network, specifically, the underground railways leading in and out of my favorite city: Manehattan. Anyhow, exposition aside, I hope you enjoy "Subterranean Trans-Equestrian"!