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Author: Justice
Date: 2015-04-14 05:17
Hey, I'm putting a quartet together (an odd one - clarinet, trumpet, bass, and tenor sax), and I'd like to find some classic Dixieland jazz sheet music. I'm thinking something along the lines of Preservation Hall Jazz Band, but I'd honestly settle for absolutely anything at this point. Any suggestions on where I can find this?
Thanks so much!
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Author: davyd
Date: 2015-04-15 00:09
You might look for the Essential Jazz Editions series. You will most likely have to expand your ensemble to include trombone and drums, and piano and/or guitar would be nice to have as well.
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Author: Wes
Date: 2015-04-15 03:37
Yes, ditto on the Zep Meisner books. He played for years at the Cockatoo restaurant lounge in Hawthorne, CA, while also operating Zep's discount music store in the San Fernando Valley. Playing alto sax and clarinet with a trio or quartet, he said that it doesn't make any difference what ligature you use. His store was a hang out place for a lot of local musicians.
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Author: ned
Date: 2015-04-15 04:32
''(an odd one - clarinet, trumpet, bass, and tenor sax), and I'd like to find some classic Dixieland jazz sheet music.''
Yes, it certainly is odd. I have heard of piano-less quartets before (Gerry Mulligan comes to mind), but I suspect that your potential audience may be wondering what's going on when they hear your ''front line heavy'' band in action.
There needs to be a frontline to rhythm balance, and and having three instruments in front probably playing full tilt, will be just too much for your solitary one person rhythm section to cope with adequately. You should consider dropping one of the front line, or expanding to a quintet, at the very least.
Mulligan's band (hardly Dixieland anyway) worked because the two man rhythm pumped away and the two piece front line did also, by each in turn adding harmony lines behind the soloist.
I have just been invited to join a New Orleans (you'd probably call it Dixie) quartet. It will consist of clarinet (me) plus a three piece rhythm. That's a good balance of instrumentation to achieve the desired N.O. sound, in my view. I have played in clarinet/trumpet/banjo/bass setups many times, but I find that the lack of drums tends to make it hard work over three hours.
As for the Preservation Hall Jazz Band - I don't think your quartet will sound much like them - perhaps that's not the intention? In any event I'm sure you won't find charts by them either - plenty of recordings though, so you'd need to listen and copy.
There are numerous websites where you can get fakes, so go there first. Here's one for a start, and it's free. https://archive.org/stream/fakebook_the-firehouse-jazz-band-fake-book/thefirehousejazzbandfakebook#page/n0/mode/1up
Here's another. http://cjam.lassecollin.se/index.html
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Author: Roxann
Date: 2015-04-16 19:09
I play clarinet with a Dixieland Jazz Band and spoke with the fellow who procures all the music for us. Here are his suggestions:
1. Google "Hal Leonard Dixieland." He has a couple of different series that we use. One is called the Dixieland Combo Pak, arranged by Paul Severson. Another is Dixieland Beat arranged by Bill Howard.
2. Google "Small Band Music Archives." A LOT of the music we use is stamped AFCDJS Small Band Music Archives. You might be able to reach someone through aarchivist@sbcglobal.net, although the fellow who used to be their archivist just retired. You pay an initial small fee ($20ish) and they send you a large catalog of the thousands of pieces they have in their digital library. The catalog lists the name of the piece, who wrote it, which instruments are involved, and how many pages there are for that particular song... Then you pay 20 cents per sheet and they send it to you digitally. You then download it and make how many copies you need. Easily half the music in our 80+ piece folders come from them.
Best of luck with exploring Dixieland. Fortunately, with our group, we have a retired music teacher/trumpet player who knows all the fine points of playing the music...I learn something new every day. One "fine point" I learned last night is totally contrary to how the music is written, but how it is to be played...something regarding an eighth note that comes before a quarter note. I'm still trying to figure it out!
ENJOY!!! It's a boatload of fun!
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Author: Dibbs
Date: 2015-04-16 19:54
Roxann wrote:
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> something regarding an eighth note that comes
> before a quarter note. I'm still trying to figure it out!
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Long quaver, short crotchet?
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