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

[Jeff Albert]

If white is the COLOUR, wouldn't the game be football?

Oh, I guess in Canada you get all the extra U's from the old world,
but both kinds of football.

Jeff



On 8/18/07, Craig <cwhyndman at shaw.ca> wrote:
> White is the colour, soccer is the game...
>
> I miss the old Whitecaps at Empire Stadium.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> 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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