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£60.99The Mayor's Blues (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Blanken, John
Why should rock musicians have all the fun? Now your band can experience the thrill of playing a piece in a classic 12-bar blues style. Many players are given the chance to show off their skills as a soloist before the work builds to a grand fortissimo finale with the whole band playin' the blues!Duration: 5:00
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£30.00The St Louis Blues - Sandy Coffin, W C Handy
Two-Step MarchCommissioned by John Wallace, this arrangement of The St Louis Blues has been crafted by Sandy Coffin through close listening of the available recordings of the Harlem Hellfighters Band. Sandy had been heavily involved with the Historic Brass Society symposium 2017 held in New York and assisted John with his research on this fascinating band and the style of music it generated.Eye-witness accounts refer to the 369th band 'dancing' rather than 'marching'. Above all, in modern performance, finding a 'dancing beat' is crucial to a successful performance of this Ragtime march in order to do justice to the great pioneering work of James Reese Europe.Note the flutter-tonguing and use of muting, the counter-melody in soprano cornet, and the wilder and yet wilder nature of each repetition of the Chorus.Look and Listen:Background to the Harlem HellfightersThe US Army 369th Regiment, made up largely of African-Americans from New York, became known as the Harlem Hellfighters because of the heroic reputation which accrued to them during the actions they engaged in during the First World War in Europe.James Reese Europe was one of the most active African-American composer/musical directors in the pre-war American music scene. The legendary Harlem Hellfighters Band, which he assembled in 1917 from African-American and Puerto Rican musicians, came at an important transitional point in musical history. A new form of music called jazz was emerging from Ragtime and the performing style of Europe's band was immersed in the flow of this new direction.Europe's Harlem Hellfighters influenced and inspired everyone who heard them, including the welcoming crowd when they disembarked in France, bowled over by their swinging rendition of La Marseillaise. Reese Europe became a war hero, commanding a machine-gun unit as well as the band.On return from War in 1919 the band led a ticker-tape parade along Fifth Avenue in New York and soon made about 30 shellac recordings. These recordings display some of the fingerprints of their performing style: ragging, improvising, muting, wailing, smearing (their word for glissando) - and from the evidence of their recordings they took the printed page as a blueprint for individuality.In May 1919 during the Hellfighters' triumphant coast-to-coast tour after their return, James Reese Europe was tragically murdered, bringing to premature close, at the age of 39, the work of a great musical innovator.
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£45.00
Rhapsody in Blue (Score & Parts) - George Gershwin
Steve Sykes has taken the main themes from George Gershwin's classic 1924 Rhapsody in Blue for piano and concert jazz orchestra to form a tuneful selection for brass band. Brass Band Grade 4: Advanced Youth and 3rd Section Duration: 8 minutes
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£8.50BLUE VELVET (score) - Moore, Colin (1925-2019)
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£27.50BLUE VELVET (score & parts) - Moore, Colin (1925-2019)
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£58.00
St. Louis Blues - William C. Handy - Oystein S. Heimdal
This song was composed by W. C. Handy and published in 1914.The style is typical blues and it has been a standard for jazz-musicians for decades.Many famous musicians and singers has recorded- and performed it. Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Count Basie and Glenn Miller are among the greatest ones.This arrangement switch between 6/8 and 2/4 time signature bur the tempo is the same throughout the piece. The arrangement is suitable for both marching and concert purpose. When performed at a concert, the drum kit can be used instead of separate snare drum, bass drum and cymbals.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£79.00
Yeah, Another Blues - Clarinet Solo - Frode Thingnaes
This blues was written for the American Jazz-clarinetist Eddy Daniels.
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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£24.95In the Blue Midwinter - Gustav Holst - John Barber
'In the Blue Midwinter' is a play on the title of the Christmas poem In the Bleak Midwinter, by English poet Christina Rossetti, which was set to music by Gustav Holst in 1906. In this arrangement, this most beloved Christmas...
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£84.95Within Blue Empires - Paul Lovatt-Cooper
Within Blue Empires was commissioned by Graham Taylor, a successful design consultant. Graham was whale watching off the coast of Canada when he became inspired and fell in love with the great mammals. The composition follows a programmatic brief, focusing...
Estimated dispatch 5-7 working days
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£59.70Blue Sky (Brass Band - Score and Parts) - Nijs, Johan
Blue Sky is a conversational piece for Brass Band
Estimated dispatch 7-14 working days
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