John Berry a habilement arrangé ce classique de Glenn Miller pour compter les groupes et maintenu les éléments importants de la version originale. Voici une excellente façon d'introduire ce chef de bande important à vos jeunes joueurs. / Jazz Band

Swedish Rhapsody-Kaleidoscope will save you time! Do you spend hours arranging music for odd assortments of instruments? Kaleidoscope is specially arranged to suit almost any instrumental combination and these varied ensembles are easy andenjoyable too. So much scope for virtually any combination of instruments!The series is successful with recorders guitars percussion and keyboard as well as with orchestral groupings. Whether there are five or fiftyplayers every Kaleidoscope title will work! Just make sure that melody and keyboard parts are included - all other parts are optional. Kaleidoscope is superb value for money - each set contains a score plus around 50 parts eachone carefully written to suit the needs of each instrument. For example easy string parts are in first position only whilst easy clarinet parts take care to avoid the break. There are more demanding parts too for experiencedplayers. To help you choose the right pieces for your players we have given the key of each Kaleidoscope in brackets. The complete performance option! These super-flexible arrangements of well-known titles are a must forevery school. Why not choose a theme for your concert and perform a selection of Kaleidoscope show titles and film themes or have an evening of classical favourites? In F. Edited by Nicholas Hare.

Arranging for Small and Medium Ensembles-The definitive text used for the time-honored Chord Scales course at Berklee College of Music this book concentrates on scoring for every possible ensemble combination and teaches performers and arrangers how to add color character and sophistication to chord voicings. Topics covered include: selecting appropriate harmonic tensions understanding jazz harmony overcoming harmonic ambiguity experimenting with unusual combinations andnon-traditional alignments and many more. The accompanying online audio includes performance examples of several different arranging techniques. The audio tracks feature PLAYBACK+ a multi-functional audio player thatallows you to slow down audio without changing pitch set loop points change keys and pan left or right.

Discovery Jazz - Grade 1.5 Here is a nicely scored arrangement of Norah Jones' award-winning hit designed for beginning players. The opening verse can be played either by a sax solo or as a section feature. Later the brass get a taste of the melody and there is a short written (opt. ad lib.) solo for trumpet. Very smooth!