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

[Craig]

White is the colour, soccer is the game...

I miss the old Whitecaps at Empire Stadium.

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From: trombone-l-bounces at maillists.samford.edu
[mailto:trombone-l-bounces at maillists.samford.edu] On Behalf Of George
Butler
Sent: August 17, 2007 9:18 AM
To: robert at robertslaven.ca
Cc: Trombone List
Subject: Re: [Trombone-l] March-sized trio charts for dixieland/swing
tunes?

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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