fun brass quintet music

[BVD Press]

Are looking for something serious, but fun, jazz, or something else all together?

I will put together a list for you and post later tonight.

[tubacdk]

the first two that came to mind:

Suite from the Monteregian Hills by Morley Calvert
Suite Americana by Enrique Crespo (pretty taxing for trumpets)

[Chuck(G)]

I am in the US army bands I am in a brass quintet and I am looking for something fun, challenging, and a crowd pleaser. not to a sophisticated ear but to someone who knows nothing about music... like a CG or a drunkin crowd. If you know of anyhting please let me know

How about the Frackenpohl "Alexander's Ragtime Band" or some of the Beltway Brass charts:

http://www.trumpetunes.com/publications.html

The new chart the Brian Doughty has put up of "It Don't Mean a Thing..." is very nice.

Beatles tunes are always popular; the Alan Fernie arrangements are lots of fun:

http://www.sldbrass.com/5tetk-l.htm

"Mysterious Mose" arr. Charles Warren (Cimarron) is a nice challenging chart with little riffs for everyone.

That's just off the top of my head...

[tubarepair]

For the CG - assuming he isn't the one drunk , I would reccomend Howard Cable's "A Sousa Collection", a Canadian Brass publication.

David Baldwin's arrangement of Bugler's Holiday (Anderson) uses the horn to cover the 3rd trumpet part. Crowds love it.

Harry Herforth's arrangement of My Spirit Be Joyful (Bach) is one of my favorites.

Frackpohl's version of St. Louis Blues (Handy) is starts out with a great trombone/tuba duet.

Wuopio's arrangement of South Rampart Street Parade (Bauduc) is my favorite Dixieland piece for quintet.

For warm-ups I like the Bach-Renwick six chorales. If you are interested in any of them, I have the publisher info.

DLH

[tuba kitchen]

fun, short, crowd pleasing and not very difficult (this is also a great encore) is robert nagel's "this old man march".

[BVD Press]

Some tunes that might appeal to you:

That's A Plenty - arr. Gale (Musicians Publiscations)
Alexander's Ragtime Band - Berlin/Rowe (BVD Press)
Tuxedo Junction - Hawkins/Sabourin
Ain't Misbehavin' - Canadian Brass
Amazing Grace - Canadian Brass
Duke Ellington Suite - arr. Gale (Music Express)

Beatles tunes - various publishers

Gershwin: 4 Hits for 5 volumes 1 or 2

Don Patterson arrangements of Sousa Marches (Cimarron Music) - These are all really good charts!

Thanks for thr plug Chuck!

All of the above are available on my site:

http://www.bvdpress.com/

[Phil Dawson]

Lennie Niehaus has two vols of Popular American Songs - I htink that is the right title. He has arrainged popular American tunes from most years starting about 1900 or so. They are fairly easy although still challenging and crowds seem to really like them. They also have a short statement about the year or the song for each piece so you have a built in script. Check them out.
Phil

[windshieldbug]

Ain't Misbehavin' was always a crowd pleaser and fun to play with the symphony quintet, though I'm not sure if they were drunk (the crowd or the trumpet players... )