Double Helix (music composition)

"Double Helix"
Cover for score and parts
Composition by 1991 SCSBOA Honor Jazz Ensemble
Released	1995
Format	Digital download
Recorded	1993
Studio	Omega Recording, Rockville, Maryland
Genre	Jazz, blues
Composer(s)	Jack Cooper

"Double Helix" is an original music composition written for 17-piece jazz orchestra in 1991. The recording of "Double Helix" also goes by the title "Twice is Nice" (as a sound file) when distributed worldwide as production music. The work has been used and heard around the world for music, media, and entertainment broadcasts.

Double Helix was first written in 1991 as a commission for the SCSBOA Honor Jazz Ensemble and premiered at Disneyland that year. Late in 1991 Jack Bullock (jazz editor for Columbia Pictures Publications/Belwin, (aka CPP Belwin and currently Belwin Jazz, a Division of Alred Music Publishing) hired Jack Cooper as a staff writer for new jazz ensemble works. Jack Bullock heard his writing done for the U.S. Army Jazz Knights. The first piece Bullock decided to publish (and record) was Double Helix.

The work was recorded at Omega Recording Studios in Rockville, Maryland for the 1993 CPP/Belwin Jazz catalogue of new published works. Later In 1994, Canadian beverage giant Seagram bought a part of Time Warner and the Warner Music Publishing division of that company acquired CPP/Belwin. Double Helix was now distributed by Warner Brothers Music publications and the company made the move to allow FirstCom and Universal Publishing Production Music to have access to a limited number of CPP/Belwin sound files. The recordings from Omega Studios for CPP/Belwin were of very high quality as well as the music itself that was being written and acquired for the catalogue.