Re: Jazz standards for Brass Quintet?
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 2:49 am
The Canadian Brass has done many Jazz standards - even some full CDs of them:
High Society: Jazz Masterpieces from the Dixieland Era (all standards)
Swing That Music: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong (mostly standards)
Take the "A" Train: The Best of Duke Ellington (a few standards, sadly)
Swing Time! (mostly standards)
Red Hot Jazz: The Dixieland Album (mostly standards)
Basin Street (mostly standards, with added banjo.)
also their early Ragtime LP Rag-Ma-Tazz has early Rag/Jazz standards.
I suppose some of these arrangements are available as sheet music, but it is hard to be sure. I have not explored all of the CB books and charts, but they are for sale.
BTW, I am suggesting these songs on the CDs are "standards" because either any competent Dixie band should know them, or a Swing Band should know them, or they are in the "Top 100 Jazz Tunes of All Time" sort of list, or all of the above. (Based on my experience in playing this sort of music for decades and 25 years as a non-commercial radio jazz DJ.)
High Society: Jazz Masterpieces from the Dixieland Era (all standards)
Swing That Music: A Tribute to Louis Armstrong (mostly standards)
Take the "A" Train: The Best of Duke Ellington (a few standards, sadly)
Swing Time! (mostly standards)
Red Hot Jazz: The Dixieland Album (mostly standards)
Basin Street (mostly standards, with added banjo.)
also their early Ragtime LP Rag-Ma-Tazz has early Rag/Jazz standards.
I suppose some of these arrangements are available as sheet music, but it is hard to be sure. I have not explored all of the CB books and charts, but they are for sale.
BTW, I am suggesting these songs on the CDs are "standards" because either any competent Dixie band should know them, or a Swing Band should know them, or they are in the "Top 100 Jazz Tunes of All Time" sort of list, or all of the above. (Based on my experience in playing this sort of music for decades and 25 years as a non-commercial radio jazz DJ.)