JPSaxMan
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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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CMelodyMan
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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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JPSaxMan
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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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CMelodyMan
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Go to jwpepper.com Look up Swing Machine. exactly one minute into the song there is a tenor solo.
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JPSaxMan
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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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altosaxgeek5
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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
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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... 
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CMelodyMan
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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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JPSaxMan
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Wow.
Who would have thought of that?  
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CMelodyMan
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Some other favorites of mine include Aftershock and In The Mood, and One O'Clock Jump.
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