Check out the premier recording of an original composition of mine entitled "Next Week!" Composed for Shawn Davern's "Sages of Future Soul," a semi-virtual big band, coming together for our second live recording session at Clementine Café in Harrisonburg Virginia. This piece started as a short TikTok/social media video I made in December of 2022, during a "tune a day" challenge I was doing where I wrote a short jazz tune every day for a month. This tune was written looking forward to the end of the semester and winter break, and so for the large ensemble version I wanted to convey the feelings of excitement, nervousness, and happiness surrounding seeing someone you love for the first time in a while. I hope you enjoy!