Trumpetta Tocatta- The song:

[chewy-chew-chew-bean-benitez]

i have heard the other songs from the lp but if i buy it it would be just for this song: is it very unique? whats it like? is it really a classical structure/melody, etc?

[michel devos]

Never heard this one....However, litterally, a Toccata describes a piece of music written for a keyboard instrument (from the latin verb tocare - to touch) and was essentially used for the 18th century music.

Who knows?

[Spontooneous]

In the classical field, "toccata" is just a category of showpieces. No set structure to them.

This is one of my favorite KD cuts. A great modal, vampy thing -- can't think of anything like it in his discography. KD gets off a great solo in his relaxed later style, and Joe Henderson's solo afterward is simply killin'.

Don't miss it.

[Alexander Hawkins]

Musicologists do sometimes talk about a toccata 'form'. I think - although can't recall - that, specifically, it involves one hand playing the virtuosic passage, and then the other hand doing it, rather than both simultaneously.

But that's a fairly rare usage, I'd have said.

[mikeweil]

However, litterally, a Toccata describes a piece of music written for a keyboard instrument (from the latin verb tocare - to touch) and was essentially used for the 18th century music.

You're right - there is no such thing as a specific form for a toccata. Baroque keyboard players sometimes even used it synonimously with the term "prelude", although a toccata can stand on its own, whereas a prelude always serves as an introduction to something - but a toccata could be used like this.