A rare and unusual song from the Ted Heath book., Heading North is a 1957 composition and is a medium temp (at 130 bpm) minor blues chart. It kicks off with a solo piano 12 bar lick (written), joined after by unison bones with sax answerbacks. Saxes then take the soli, answered by the trombones leading to a 24 bar muted trumpet solo (chord based - scored on all 4 trumpet parts) with sax and bone backing figures. Piano comes back in and the chart finished with a big tutti shout chorus. This is a fairly straightforward chart to play. Duration: 2'40' Grade: Easy/Medium (Trumpet solo is ad lib, but other than that the ranges are moderate and the chart is very playable - no sax doubles)
