[Trombone-l] March-sized trio charts for dixieland/swing tunes?

[George Butler]

Hi Robert,
   
  My internet connection is doing funny things, so I'm having to go my memory from 1999 on this one.  Alfred Publications (www.alfred.com) publishes at least three collections of things that might work, if you don't mind going beyond Dixieland.  If I remember correctly, the first is called Combo Blasters for Pep Band, with about a dozen arrangements by John Wassom.  The sequel was More Combo Blasters for Pep Band, with about a dozen arrangements by Victor Lopez.  I believe John Wassom did the third compilation, Combo Blasters Take 3.  The titles in each volume are mostly rock and R&B classics, "Gonna Fly Now" from Rocky, maybe even "O Canada."
   
  Each volume uses a flexible instrumentation of four parts.  Part 1 usually has the melody, and is available for flute, trumpet or clarinet, maybe even an E-flat version for alto.  The Part 2 book usually had an alto line or countermelody, and again was available for various instruments.  You might want to get both Part 3 and Part 4 for trombone, and experiment.  There are also seperate books for rhythm section instruments--piano, guitar, bass, drum set.  If you can't get your owner to spring for a rhythm section, there is also a CD with the rhythm section only that you guys could play along with.  The CD also has full performance versions of each song, if you guys would like to fake it and just watch the game.  I suppose you'd want to order the Part 1 and Part 2 books in both E-flat and B-flat versions, and you could see what works well for each tune.
   
  The arrangements are well done, the books are flip-folio size, and they all are playable.  There may be others done since then.  Inexpensive, about $3 each part book, and a score with the CD about $20.
   
  Hope this helps!  Let us know.
   
  --George Butler
Tallinn, Estonia
   
  

ROBERT SLAVEN <robertslaven at shaw.ca> wrote:
  Hi everyone.  I'm in a new gig with the Vancouver Whitecaps soccer team.  As part of a kind of cheerleading squad-slash-pep band, me and two other guys (trumpet and sax) play tunes in the hour before the game as fans come in, as well as when fans leave after the game.

We have a number of things we can pull together off the tops of our heads, but we'd like to broaden our repertoire a bit.  We find that dixieland and swing-style tunes (Bill Bailey, Don't Get Around Much Anymore, Five Foot Two, just for a few examples) work pretty well.

What would be ideal would be mix-and-match trio arrangements of stuff like that in a marching-lyre-sized format.  Does such a thing exist, and if so, where?  Failing that, regular-sized stuff would be great, too (thanks to copiers with "Reduce/Enlarge" features...).

Thanks!

Robert Slaven

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