SKU: AP.46172
UPC: 038081525785. English.
Gordon Goodwin's Why We Can't Have Nice Things is your basic flag-waving, barn-burning, straight-ahead swing chart for an eight-piece band: tenor, trumpet, trombone, piano, guitar, bass, drums, and auxiliary percussion. Sure it's a challenge, but it's very doable with experienced players. Solo space for sax, trumpet, and trombone as recorded by the Little Big Phat Band on the CD An Elusive Man. Can you handle it . . .? (6:18) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: CL.032-4135-00
Warning: Don’t try this tune anywhere unless you are ready to rock! This hard driving rock tune kicks in the afterburners in the first measure and doesn’t let up. Written solidly at the medium easy level, this tune features repetitive rhythms and patterns that guarantee you will be performance ready with the absolute minimum of rehearsal time. Scored for limited instrumentation with careful attention to instrument ranges, and written out solos over super easy changes, Don’t Try This at Home will be accessible to the smallest and youngest ensembles. Loaded with student and audience appeal, this tune is a great contest/concert selection. Go on, try it, we dare you!
SKU: AP.46172S
UPC: 038081525792. English.
What you have here is your basic flag-waving, barn-burning, straight-ahead swing chart for an eight-piece band: tenor, trumpet, trombone, piano, guitar, bass, drums, and auxiliary percussion. Sure it's a challenge, but it's very doable with experienced players. Solo space for sax, trumpet, and trombone as recorded by the Little Big Phat Band on the CD An Elusive Man. Can you handle it . . .? (6:18) This title available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: AP.41133S
UPC: 038081479750. English.
Gordon Goodwin wrote this funky chart for Grade 3 to showcase trumpet 1 and trombone 1. Everything is written out to include the melody duet, the solos, and the trades. The tempo is very accessible at 160 BPM. Don't Steal My Stuff by Gordon Goodwin is fun and easy to assemble. (5:08) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: CL.032-4789-00
This playful medium-tempo swinger features a smooth, self-assured melody that glides along a cool, slightly altered blues progression. Trumpet and alto sax carry the melody at first before passing it off to the brass section; saxophones cleverly punctuate the brass section with heavily accented chords. The saxophones take the melody the third time around, while the brass offers incisive interjections here and there. A solo section follows that features just the right amount of background writing that enhances the proceedings without ever getting in the way; the solo section may be repeated as desired to feature additional soloists. A swinging ensemble follows the solos, starting off at a simmer and gradually heating up to the exciting full-ensemble shout chorus. Don’t Let These Blues Fool You is sure to be a favorite for concert and contest!
SKU: CL.032-4789-01
SKU: CL.032-4141-01
Plays easy and sounds cool. That's the perfect combination found in this carefully-crafted blues tune for younger bands. The trumpets and bones take the lead, with the saxes providing interesting counter lines. Then several bars of full ensemble lead to an open solo section for any instruments over simple Blues changes, giving young players the opportunity to improvise. If they aren't quite ready for that yet, suggested solos are provided. After the solos, the bones, tenors and bari get to shine playing some fun unison licks which lead back to the whole band playing a big finish. This chart will sound great even for bands with limited experience, instrumentation, and rehearsal time. Don't Miss The Bus!
SKU: CL.032-4141-00
SKU: AP.41148S
UPC: 038081475479. English.
Funky with a very hip piano intro! Little band instrumentation is for tenor, trumpet, trombone, piano, bass, guitar, and drums. This chart includes solo space for all. (2:16) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
SKU: AP.43704
UPC: 038081498553. English.
A high energy Latin pop groove, this one moves along at a pretty good clip---around 240 BPM. It features a soprano sax lead instead of alto 1 and solo space for all saxes, trumpet 4, and trombones 1 and 2. The lead trumpet range is to written high F. A hot sax section soli and some counterpoint round out this cannonball. Hot stuff! (6:28) This title is available in MakeMusic Cloud.
