All Set is the fifth studio album by English pop punk band Buzzcocks. It was released on 15 May 1996 by record label I.R.S.

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All songs written and composed by Pete Shelley, except where noted.

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All Set, for jazz ensemble, is a 1957 composition for small jazz band by the American composer Milton Babbitt.

History

All Set was commissioned by the 1957 Brandeis University Creative Arts Festival, which in that year was a jazz festival. It was premiered there by the Bill Evans Orchestra in a performance that was recorded and released on a Columbia Records LP in 1963. The title is a pun referring to the all-combinatorial twelve-tone series Babbitt used in composing the work (Wuorinen 1974). The published score is dedicated to Gunther Schuller (Babbitt 1963, 3).

Analysis

The composition is scored for alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, trumpet, trombone, contrabass, piano, vibraphone, and percussion (trap set: small and large tom-toms, snare drum, bass drum, hi-hat, three suspended cymbals).

The lyrical, imagist tendencies of Babbitt's earlier vocal works are also evident in All Set, which combines a twelve-tone pitch structure using an all-combinatorial set (hence the work's title) to what Babbitt calls "jazz-like properties ... the use of percussion, the Chicago jazz-like juxtapositions of solos and ensembles recalling certain characteristics of group improvisation" (Barkin 2001). Through this fusion of the sounds and rhythms of the jazz ensemble with strict serialism, Babbitt demonstrates the flexibility of his procedures (Simms 1986, 344).