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CMelodyMan · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 1:14 pm Post subject: Weird jazz bands

Have you ever played in a jazz band that had weird, non-jazz instruments in it, such as: of flutes, bassoons, and french horns?

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JPSaxMan · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 3:01 pm Post subject:

We have "guest" flutes and maybe a guest clarinet come in once in a while, and I do believe there was talk about jazz french horn...so Cool

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saxmaniac · Joined: 21 Jun 2005 Posts: 184

That is pretty strange Shocked

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JPSaxMan · Posted: Wed Aug 03, 2005 4:15 pm Post subject:

Nah, of course it's not :smile:

Then again I'm in Redneckville, PA...so...almost anything goes Mr. Green

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Kym · Joined: 13 Aug 2005 Posts: 35 Location: England

In my jazz band i have a girl who doubles on french horn and tenor horn, it fits in really well actually, you'd be surprised listening to her!

joboe · Joined: 18 Jul 2005 Posts: 25 Location: Illinois

that is really cool! I am in the jazz band at my school and we have to try out. I am one of 5 flutes, about 10-15 altos 2 baris6-8 trumpets, 5-6 percussionists, 2-3 clarinets, a key board and bass player. it is rather top heavy though having all of those saxes that is all YOU can hear.
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BuffaloBariSax · Posted: Tue Aug 16, 2005 8:34 pm Post subject:

One of our tenor players has started soloing on everything except for his sax. He solos on his mouthpiece, makes mouth noises, and has played other things like pan flutes and slide whistles for solos.
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JazZz · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 170

last year we couldn't hold down a trombone section, so we took in anyone..our trombone section consisted of 2 euphonium's, 1 french horn and the occasional actual trombone...
We all so had a solo'ing tuba..~Jazz Tuba~

Our rival school had a jazz french horn section and one of them solo'd a whole lot, it was crazy because she was the best kid jazz soloist i've ever heard and she was a french hornist
I guess french horn in school jazz isn't too uncommon because I've seen a whole lot of french horns in high school jazz.

musicalprodigy · Joined: 03 Aug 2005 Posts: 119

lasat year we had a clarinet play in our jazz band, i thought that was kinda weird.

JazZz · Joined: 05 Jul 2005 Posts: 170

Clarinet in band is indeed weird, unless it's something like in the mood or a stan getz toon, he was a great clarinetist. I want to learn bass clarinet to play in jazz after I heard people like eric dolphy (even if he isn't strictly "Jazz")

CMelodyMan · Posted: Sun Aug 21, 2005 7:20 pm Post subject:

I've never heard of "In the Mood' having a clarinet in it! Shocked

Where can I find out about that? That would be interesting to hear. A clarinetist came to all of our jazz band practices last year, but she never actually played at the concert. I might ask my BD if I can take a solo on my clarinet in jazz band, if I don't sell it by then.

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Louis Scuderi · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 8:56 am Post subject:

Our Jazz band-

1 Bass
2 Piano/Keyboard
2 Alto
2 Tenor
1 Clarinet
1 Flute
1 Oboe
1 trombone
3 trumpets

You should have heard the oboist's solo on Chameleon. Mr. Green

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BuffaloBariSax · Posted: Wed Aug 24, 2005 10:58 pm Post subject:

One of my best friends plays clarinet, and she played with the band on "Moonlight Serenade." Also, she's part of our combo, and she's awesome. She learned sax just so she could continue to play in jazz band when we don't have music w/ clarinet parts.

It's not really weird in terms of different instruments, but our top jazz band set up this year is:

7 saxes- 3 altos, 2 tenors, 2 baris
5 bones
5 trumpets
Rhythm- 2 pianists, 1 bass, 1 guitar, 2 drummers
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