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Re: Dixieland Clarinet Music

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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