Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' [music]

see also Subseries 1.3

31 parts and an indefinite number of scores. Just a-sittin' and a-rockin' is contained in five folders consisting of 1 six page short score in D Major concert, 2 published two page piano vocal scores in F Major concert, 16 parts in Ab Major concert, and 15 parts in Db Major concert -- in ink, pencil and photocopy -- in unidentified hands (BS, Tizol, Whaley, Sanders?). Folder A contains short score. Short score indicates parts for clarinet, 4 saxes, Cat, trumpets, 3 trombones. Folder B contains published piano vocal scores. Lyrics begin "I know I should go out, be seen here and there ...". Folder C contains parts in Ab Major for 1 reed - Johnny; 2 trombones. Parts for trombone appear incomplete. Folder D contains parts in 3 groupings -- (i) Parts in Ab Major for 6 reeds - alto 1, alto, alto 3, Barney, tenor 1, tenor 2, Sears; 2 trumpets - 2, 3; 1 trombone - 3. Parts in Db Major for 2 reeds - Rab, Sears. -- (ii) Parts in Db Major for 2 reeds - Toby, Sears; 4 trumpets - Francis, Taft, Cat, Scad; 3 trombones - Wilbur, Jones, Brown. Part in Ab Major for 1 trumpet - 1. -- (iii) Parts in Ab Major for 2 trumpets - 1, Rex. Part in Db Major for 1 reed - Jimmy. Folder E contains parts in Db Major for 1 reed - Paul; 2 trumpets - Cat, Baker. -- All items except Folder B and Folder D, groupings i & ii from the Duke Ellington Library.