Hi Everyone! I was wondering if anyone had the parts for I'll be seeing you, arr. Bob Curnow that they wouldn't mind sharing with me? Thanks!

New to this sub. But this is one of my favorite tracks ever, and thought I’d leave my take on this tune.

Yes, it’s a song about love, and a song about the sea, but it’s more fundamentally a about song hope. Beyond the joyous brass section, swinging bass, and upbeat drum track is merely a man who is alone. But he is not cynical or angry. He has a faith in things unseen, an earnest belief in the gold-speckled future that lies ahead. By the end, you can’t help but believe his prayers will be answered.

Recently i've really gotten into Gerald Wilson, Quincy Jones, and the CTI catalog. I've been enjoying hearing interesting big band arrangements, and orchestral arrangements in a jazz setting. I've been wondering why there aren't more eccentric combinations of instruments out there — why not, instead of multiple trumpets, have a trumpet, a cornet and a flugelhorn all together? why aren't there more soprano saxes and bass clarinets in these settings? why not more euphoniums? i assume there are some places where these things are incorporated, but it's hard to find. so, looking for recs for more interesting/unique/eccentric big band & orchestral jazz arrangements!

Do you have any recommendations for solos to play on the euphonium with a big band? Could really be anything, a sax or trumpet solp or whatever, it's jazz after all. But trombone has such a similar sound to the euphonium, so particularly trombone solos would be best, though anything works

https://youtu.be/1YheN-2BLSU?si=hSvclXnrZAy-C6pa

Hi folks,

I'm looking for the score of September in the rain from master Roy Hargrove and his big band. I want to play it with my Big band.

I've tried to find this score anywhere in the internet and I cannot buy from any website. I found a Japanese webpage that sales it but I cannot buy it.

Anyone has it or may indicate a place where to buy this score?

Thanks

Hello, I have a small issue and would appreciate some help!

I learned sax in the „classical” way, and so it stayed with me to play rythm exactly as written. But recently after joining a big band, my teacher constantly tells me that I should play more lazy and like stay more back compared to other sections, but when I try to it’s just constantly bothering me that I feel like I’m late.

How can I overcome it and find the sweet spot? Or is it just something that will come with more experience?

I am restoring an old wire recorder. I came across a wire reel with recordings of "Sammy Kaye's Sunday Serenade". According to an announcement made part way through the reel, they are performing at the Baltimore Hippodrome. I am wondering if this recording is unique, or if the transcription discs are still out there. So far I have not been able to find any matches online.

A partial song list is below. The songs are from 1947-50. Highly likely that songs were taken from multiple shows, given that there are two versions of one song, and the recording has a few abrupt starts and stops.

1. Beg Your Pardon
2. Serenade of the Bells
3. Treasure of the Sierra Madre
4. An Old Sombrero (and an Old Spanish Shawl) Version 1
5. I'd Love to Live in Loveland (with a Girl Like You)
6. I'm Looking Over a Four-Leafed Clover
7. Program ID Announcement
8. An Old Sombrero (and an Old Spanish Shawl) Version 2
9. I Want To Be Loved
10. Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered
11. Hoop De Doo!
12. Headin' for the Last Round Up
13. Wilhelmina
14. Bali Hai (Instrumental)

Does this match anything anybody has run across?

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My stepdad passed away last year. One of his great loves was Big Band music, specifically Glenn Miller. In addition to having a large collection of LPs, he assembled what we think might be a complete collection of the original Glenn Miller Orchestra's live recordings before and during WWII. (I think all of these individual recordings are available online, but he took great care in organizing the files chronologically and burning them on CDs.)

My mom would like to pass on the collection to an organization or collector who would appreciate it. We're aware of Ebay and Facebook Marketplace but aren't sure if this kind of listing is appropriate there. I'm not familiar with where Big Band aficionados hang out online and/or acquire listening material, so I thought I'd ask here if anyone has a suggestion of other websites, etc., where we could share this info. Thanks!

Im absolutely hooked on this Basie piece. Any recommendations of tracks with a similar explosive energy?

Hello!

My name is Ines Velasco, I am a Mexican born, Brooklyn based drummer, arranger and composer. For the last few years, I have had the opportunity to collaborate as an arranger, orchestrator and copyist for artists like Avenged Sevenfold, Snarky Puppy, NY Philharmonic String Quartet featuring Juana Luna, José Mercé, Alina Engirbayan and many others. I released my first big band EP titled ‘Three Stories’ in December of 2022, which was featured in JAZZIZ Magazine Summer Edition’s ‘Big Sounds’. 

I am working on recording my first full length big band album as a leader. I will be recording this project at the beginning of May of 2024 in Brooklyn, NY, with a 17-piece band of incredible musicians.

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/inesvelasco/a-flash-of-cobalt-blue-big-band-album?ref=discovery&term=ines%20velasco

Does anyone know any examples of chiptunes written in the style of big band?

I'm interested in big band and wanted to try arranging stuff in that style, but getting VSTs to sound realistic like that doesn't seem feasible, at least not for me, so I figured I'd go in the opposite direction and try doing the same thing but with completely unrealistic chiptune sounds, avoiding the uncanny valley. Plus chiptunes are cool and I want to understand them as well.

But I need to see examples and I don't know of any, and trying to look up "8-bit big band" doesn't give any useful results because it just points to the literal big band by that name performing video game music covers

Anyone happen to have a copy of the Mark Taylor arrangement of "Kansas City"? I'm missing the last page of the Drums part and can't find it anywhere to get a copy.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

This is my grandfather’s band. He did most of the arrangements himself. He played back in the 1930s and 40’s (my grandmother was a fan and that’s how they met). Then he became an electrical engineer to support his growing family after the war (he was a tank driver and was part of the unit that liberated Nordhausen camp). He continued playing music on the side. He was offered a job with Lawrence Welk but turned it down because the pay wasn’t good. My mom said there were always jazz musicians coming over when she was a kid.

https://youtu.be/jdgzc-JR43c?si=-C3FmVfUqic0TtKP

Need ideas for a killer big band competition set —- tunes like channel one suite, I love you, etc etc. What would be the most impressive and simultaneously enjoyable tunes to listen to?

Hi there,

Arranged by Barbara Moore, played by Brass Incorporates.

A theme for BBC's "Pick of The Pops" since the 1960s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33vc3U1X7co

Banging tune.

Does anybody have it by any chance?

Hi all-

Hubby and I inherited about 75 combo sets to a lot of jazz standards. They're not combo arrangements per se, but original parts out of classic arrangements (Nestico, Wolpe, Taylor, Collins, etc.). All of them are at least 2-2-2-3 (2 saxes, 2 trumpets, 2 trombones, rhythm section), some have extra parts for bari sax and guitar. They are originals- no copies, and in great condition.

We want to sell these on the cheap, maybe in 10-packs or something like that. We figure people starting and wanting combo gigs could use some great cheap arrangements. Where could I sell stuff like this? I don't even know where to start. I think our bandleader bought a TON of extra parts for all these tunes before he passed away, and now we don't need them. Thanks!