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Re: Dixieland Clarinet Music

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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