Tarik O?Regan: Alice Changes
Alice Changes , by Tarik O'Regan , is a short piece for solo Violin, composed for Thomas Gould. The work progresses through a series of increasingly intricate figurations, which sit on top of the same underlying chord progression found in Charlie Parker?s Blues for Alice (1951). A variation of the twelve-bar blues, this harmonic sequence goes by several names, such as: ?Bird blues?, ?Bird changes?, or ?Alice changes? . Thomas Gould premiered Alice Changes at Ronnie Scott?s Jazz Club in London on 30 March, 2014.