Edition: Jazz Big Band Arrangement

Description: Ballad - Medium

Publisher: Lush Life Music

This is a big, big trombone feature and is a must for any library. Ernie Barnard has produced a fabulously lush and rich piece of work that just makes the hair on your neck stand up. Equally suitable for dancing, or as a concert piece, this arrangement shows the instrument at its best. After a cadenza style intro, the trombone takes the entire first chorus with only rhythm backing. Miller-voiced saxes pick it up from there, with the whole piece building little by little to a tutti key change, with the solo trombone backing, and then taking the lead, to a final cadenza flourish to finish. Stunning. The complete live mp3, courtesy of The Strayhorns, has the arranger, Ernie Barnard, taking the trombone solo lead.

Full Score
Clarinet
Alto Saxophone
2 Tenor Saxophones
Baritone Saxophone
4 Trumpets
4 Trombones
Guitar
Piano
Bass
Drums

Trumpets 1-4: C6, G5, Eb5, D5
Trombones 1-4: Db5, F4, Eb4, A3