Forum of the Saxes

JPSaxMan · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 4:58 pm Post subject: Favorite jazz band tunes?

Here are some of mine:

Funkathustra
Stick Shift
Frankenstein
Swing Machine
Evil Ways
Brick House

And the list goes on...

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JP
Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

CMelodyMan · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 5:05 pm Post subject:

Did your band play Swing Machine? Can you tell me the notes to the tenor solo? My favorites are: Sing, Sing, Sing, the Pink Panther theme song, Swing Machine, Brick House(which is actually funk, not jazz), and St. Louis Blues.
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Alto: Yanagisawa (880), Morgan 6M w/ Rico
C Melody: c.1919 Martin Inspiration
York soprano

JPSaxMan · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:07 pm Post subject:

I can look it up for you...there rarely is a tenor solo written...I can record the one I came up with on alto. Then maybe you can transpose it to tenor? We shall see.
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JP
Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

CMelodyMan · Posted: Tue Jun 21, 2005 8:53 pm Post subject:

Go to jwpepper.com Look up Swing Machine. exactly one minute into the song there is a tenor solo.
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Alto: Yanagisawa (880), Morgan 6M w/ Rico
C Melody: c.1919 Martin Inspiration
York soprano

JPSaxMan · Posted: Wed Jun 22, 2005 11:51 am Post subject:

Oh I remember that solo now...we used to listen to the recording a few times before we played the song...remember it now!

Maybe I can figure it out and write it out for you!

Honestly, our band IMO did it better than the recording. Our drummer sounded better!!
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JP
Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

altosaxgeek5 · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 8:40 pm Post subject:

Well.. they (i say they because I'm not in it... yet) have this song called Power Trip, really cool song. Has anybody ever heard of it?? They also played, at the last concert... Nightingale in Berkley Square, The Chicken... and that's all I can remember off the top of my head.
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JPSaxMan · Posted: Thu Jun 23, 2005 9:16 pm Post subject:

We were gonna do a song called "Chicken Scratch"...but the director just barely cite read it on tenor! So we kinda put that one away... Confused

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JP
Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

CMelodyMan · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:38 pm Post subject:

Chicken Scratch is kinda cool. You can find the audio clip for that on jwpepper.com too. You don't have to figure out the notes for the solo, I just came-up with an ingenious way of figuring out solos. You hold tuner up to the mic, right down the notes, and transpose it from C to Bb or Eb using a transposing chart.
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Alto: Yanagisawa (880), Morgan 6M w/ Rico
C Melody: c.1919 Martin Inspiration
York soprano

JPSaxMan · Posted: Sat Jun 25, 2005 1:40 pm Post subject:

Wow.

Who would have thought of that? Laughing

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JP
Student of Saxophone
Music Education (BME) Major-2011
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania

CMelodyMan · Posted: Mon Jul 04, 2005 10:13 pm Post subject:

Some other favorites of mine include Aftershock and In The Mood, and One O'Clock Jump.
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Alto: Yanagisawa (880), Morgan 6M w/ Rico
C Melody: c.1919 Martin Inspiration
York soprano