Billy Strayhorn : Take the A Train

Billy Strayhorn's mesmerising Jazz standard arranged here for SATB choir by Steve Zegree.

The ‘New Sounds for Concert Band’ series has guaranteed success in your concert programme for many years. The latest addition to the series is a classic from the jazz orchestra repertoire. Follow the great jazz master Duke Ellington and delight your band and audience with Take The A-Train.

ShowTrax CD-Now available in a Discovery arrangement this is the perfect way to introduce this standard to younger singers. Available for 3-Part Mixed 2-Part and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 2:00

Now available in a Discovery arrangement this is the perfect way to introduce this standard to younger singers. Available for 3-Part Mixed 2-Part and ShowTrax CD. Performance Time: Approx. 2:00

The Billy Strayhorn Collection brings together 17 memorable pieces written arranged or made famous by the man of whom Duke Ellington said ‘(He) was my right arm my left arm all the eyes in the back of my head’.A shyman who realised early on that his dream of a career in classical music was unlikely to become a reality because of his race Strayhorn found a father figure and a lifelong employer in jazz man Ellington.The music presentedhere reflects the full range of Strayhorn’s talent and contains his two most famous compositions Take The ‘A’ Train and Lush Life. Either one would have granted Strayhorn immortality in jazz’s hall of fame buthe wrote and collaborated on so much more doing it all in the role of a highly-valued but low-profile member of Ellington’s entourage.Ellington a cultured man had succeeded despite racism - and the tacit deal he struckwith show business was to be the smiling guy in the spotlight. Strayhorn remained in the shadows and lived a life of quiet courage working in the civil rights movement living openly as a homosexual and using his abundant musicaltalent mainly for the good of the Ellington orchestra. Play his incomparable music and decide for yourself who got the better deal. The true answer is probably that we all did.

This fantastic collection assembles 17 standards written by gifted composer Billy Strayhorn: After All · Chelsea Bridge · Clementine · Day Dream · A Flower Is a Lovesome Thing · Isfahan · Johnny Come Lately · Just a Settin' and a Rockin' · Midriff · My Little Brown Book · Passion Flower · Raincheck · Satin Doll · Something to Live For · Star-Crossed Lovers/Pretty Girl · Take the A Train · Valse. Includes photos a biography and a selected discography.

Contenu : Al Martino: Red Roses for a Blue Lady - Big Bill Broonzy: Down by the Riverside - Billy Strayhorn: Take the A Train (Reveille with Beverly) - Count Basie/Duke Ellington: Perdido - Ma Rainey: See See Rider - Marilyn Monroe: Diamonds are a Girl's best Friend - Rodgers/Hammerstein: Oh, What a Beautiful Mornin' (Oklahoma) - Ruth Brown: Sentimental journey - Traditionnel: Wade in de Water Compositeur/Auteur : HEUMANN Hans Günter
Discipline/Instrument : clavier Support : Partition
Style/Genre : variété - jazz
Date de parution : sept.-00 Nombre de pages : 18

A Little Tear (Eumir Deodata/Paulo Valle) A Sleepin' Bee (Harold Arlen) A Weaver Of Dreams (Victor Young) Affirmation (Jose Feliciano) Airegin (Sonny Rollins) All Of Me (Seymour Simons/Gerald Marks) All Or Nothing At All (Arthur Altman) Always There (Ronnie Laws/William Jeffrey) Ana Maria (Wayne Shorter) Angel Eyes (Matt Dennis) Anthropology (Dizzy Gillespie/Charlie Parker) Autumn Leaves / Les Feuilles Mortes (Joseph Kosma/Johnny Mercer) Baby, I Love You (Ronnie Shannon) Basin Street Blues (Spencer Williams) Beautiful Love (Victor Young/W.King/E.Van Alstyne) Bernie's Tune (Bernie Miller) Bird Food (Ornette Coleman) Black Ice (Jeff Lorber) Black Narcissus (Joe Henderson) Blizzard Of Lies (Dave Frishberg/Samantha Frishberg) Blue Bossa (Kenny Dorham) Blue Daniel (Frank Rosolino) Blues Connotation (Ornette Coleman) Blues On The Corner (McCoy Tyner) Boogie Down (Al Jarreau) (Michael Omartian) Both Sides Of The Coin (Michael Brecker) Bouncin' With Bud (Bud Powell) Breakfast Wine (Randy Aldcroft) Breaking Away (Al Jarreau/Tom Canning/Jay Graydon) But Beautiful (Jimmy Van Heusen) Chain Of Fools (Don Covay) Change Of Mind (Bob Mintzer) Chega De Saudade / No More Blues (Antonio Carlos Jobim) Chelsea Bridge (Billy Strayhorn) Come Sunday (Duke Ellington) Compared To What (Eugene McDaniels) Creek (Victor Brasil) Crystal Love (Makoto Ozone) Cubano Chant (Ray Bryant) Darn That Dream (Jimmy Van Heusen) Delevans (Jeff Lorber) Desafinado (Antonio Carlos Jobim) Desire (Tom Scott) Dig (Miles Davis) Dindi (Antonio Carlos Jobim) Do Nothing 'Til You Hear From Me (Duke Ellington) Don't Get Around Much Anymore (Duke Ellington) Don't Go To Strangers (Redd Evans/Arthur Kent/Dave Mann) Doors (Mike Nock) E.S.P. (Wayne Shorter) Early Autumn (Woody Hermann/Ralph Burn) Easy (Al Jarreau/Tom Canning/Jay Graydon) Eighty One (Ron Carter) Elm (Richie Bierach) Endangered Species (Wayne Shorter) (Joseph Vitarelli) Everything Happens To Me (Matt Dennis) Fall (Wayne Shorter) Farmer's Market (Art Farmer) Favela (Antonio Carlos Jobim) Feel Like Makin' Love (Eugene McDaniels) Fire (Joe Henderson) First Light (Freddie Hubbard) Foolkiller (Mose Allison) Footprints (Wayne Shorter) Four (Miles Davis) Four Brothers (Jimmy Giuffre) Four On Six (Wes Montgomery) Friends And Strangers (William Jeffrey) Funkallero (Bill Evans) Gaviota (Clare Fischer) Gee Baby, Ain't I Good To You (Don Redman) Gemini (Jimmy Heath) Gloria's Step (Scott LaFaro) Goin' Home (Russ Ferrante) Gone with The Wind (Allie Wrubel) Good Morning Heartache (Irene Higginbotham/Ervin Drake/Dan Fisher) Guaruja (Randy Brecker) Hallucinations (Bud Powell) Haunted Ballroom (Victor Feldman) Havona (Jaco Pastorius) Here's That Rainy Day (Jimmy Van Heusen) Hideaway (Dave Sanborn) I Love Lucy (Eliot Daniel) I Mean You (Thelonious Monk) I Should Care (Sammy Cahn/Axel Stordhal/Paul Weston) I Thought About You (Jimmy Van Heusen) If I Were A Bell (Frank Loesser) If You Never Come To Me (Antonio Carlos Jobim) I'll Take Romance (Ben Oakland) I'm All Smiles (Michael Leonard) Imagination (Jimmy Van Heusen) In Walked Bud (Thelonious Monk) It Happens Every Day (Joe Sample) Jersey Bounce (Tiny Bradshaw/Bobby Plater/Edward Johnson) Joshua (Victor Feldman) Keep That Same Old Feeling (Wayne Henderson) Killing Me Softly With His Song (Charles Fox/Norman Gimbel) La Samba (Ray Obiedo) La Vida Feliz / The Happy Life (McCoy Tyner) Lady Bird (Tadd Dameron) Last First (Gary Peacock) Last Train From Overbrook (James Moody) Laurie (Bill Evans) Let Me Be the One (Angela Bofill/Rick Suchow/Alan Palanker) Let's Go Dancin' (Victor Feldman) Like Someone In Love (Jimmy Van Heusen) Line For Lyons (Gerry Mulligan) Little Sunflower (Freddie Hubbard) Little Waltz (Ron Carter) Love Came On Stealthy Fingers (Bob Dorough) Love Dance (Ivan Lins/Vitor Martins) Lush Life (Billy Strayhorn) Madagascar (Richie Beirach) Make Me A Memory / Sad Samba (Grover Washington Jr) Matinee Idol (Russ Ferrante) Mercy, Mercy, Mercy (Joe Zawinul) Misty (Erroll Garner) Modadji (Dave Grusin) Monkey's Uncle (Foreman, Mitchell) Monk's Mood (Thelonious Monk) Moonlight In Vermont (Karl Suessdorf) Mornin' (Al Jarreau/David Foster/Jay Graydon) Morning Dance (Jay Beckenstein) Mr. Clean (Weldon Irvine) Mr. Gone (Josef Zawinul) My Attorney Bernie (Dave Frishberg) My Shining Hour (Harold Arlen) Nature Boy (Eden Ahbez) Nefertiti (Wayne Shorter) Never Givin' Up (Al Jarreau) (Tom Channing) Never Make Your Move Too Soon (Nesbert 'Stix' Hooper) Nigerian Marketplace (Oscar Peterson) Nightplace (Richie Beirach) No Me Esqueca (Joe Henderson) Not Ethiopia (Michael Brecker) Nothing Personal (Don Grolnick) Off Minor (Thelonious Monk) Oleo (Sonny Rollins) Once I Loved (Antonio Carlos Jobim) One Family (Russell Ferrante) One For My Baby / And One More For The Road (Harold Arlen) Out Of This World (Harold Arlen) Oz (Andy Narell) P.Y.T. / Pretty Young Thing (Quincy Jones/James Ingram) Papa Lips (Bob Mintzer) Partido Alto (Jose Bertrami) Pent Up House (Sonny Rollins) Plaza Real (Wayne Shorter) Polkadots and Moonbeams (Jimmy Van Heusen) Portrait Of Tracy (Jaco Pastorius) Promenade (Denny Zeitlin) Put It Where You Want It (Joe Sample) Quintessence (Quincy Jones) Rapture (Harold Land) Re: Person I Knew (Bill Evans) Reincarnation Of A Lovebird (Charles Mingus) Remember Rockefeller At Attica (Charles Mingus) Rio (Victor Feldman) River People (Jaco Pastorius) Robbin's Nest (Batiste 'Illinois' Jacquet/Charles Thompson) Ruby, My Dear (Thelonious Monk) Rush Hour (Russell Ferrante/Robben Ford) Safari (Michael Brecker) Sandu (Clifford Brown) Satin Doll (Duke Ellington) (Billy Strayhorn) Save Your Love For Me (Buddy Johnson) Search For Peace (McCoy Tyner) Self Portrait In Three Colors (Charles Mingus) Shaker Song (Jay Beckenstein) Shaw 'Nuff (Charlie Parker/Dizzy Gillespie) Simple Samba (Jim Hall) Skylark (Hoagy Carmichael) Small Day Tomorrow (Bob Dorough) Solar (Miles Davis) Someday My Prince Will Come (Frank Churchill) Song For Lorraine (Jay Beckenstein) Sonja's Sanfona (Jimmy Haslip) Soul Sauce / Wachi Wara (Dizzy Gillespie/Chano Pozo) Speak Low (Kurt Weill) Speak No Evil (Wayne Shorter) Spiral (Kenny Barron) St. Thomas (Sonny Rollins) Sticky Wicket (Al Jarreau)/ay Graydon/Greg Phillinganges) Stormy Weather (Harold Arlen) Street Life (Joe Sample) Sudden Samba (Neil Larsen) Sunrunner (Bob James) Take The 'A' Train (Billy Strayhorn) Tenderly (Walter Gross/Jack Lawrence) The Goodbye Look (Donald Fagen) The Island (Ivor Lins/Vitor Martins) The Midnight Sun (Lionel Hampton/Sonny Burke) The Midnight Sun Will Never Set (Quincy Jones/Henri Salvador) The Three Marias (Wayne Shorter) Theme For Ernie (Fred Lacey) There Will Never Be Another You (Harry Warren) These Foolish Things (Jack Strachey/Harry Link) This Masquerade (Leon Russell) Three Views Of A Secret (Jaco Pastorius) Time Remembers One Time Once (Denny Zeitlin) Triste (Antonio Carlos Jobim) Tune Up (Miles Davis) Turn Your Love Around (Jay Graydon/Steve Lukather/Bill Champlin) Twisted (Wardell Gray/Annie Ross) Unit Seven (Sam Jones) Up Jumped Spring (Freddie Hubbard) Velas / Velas Icadas (Ivan Lins/Vitor Martin) Very Early (Bill Evans) Voyage (Kenny Barron) Waltz For Debby (Bill Evans) Waltz New (Jim Hall) Waterwings (Don Grusin) Wave (Antonio Carlos Jobim) We'll Be Together Again (Carl Fischer) Well You Needn't (Thelonius Monk) West Coast Blues (Wes Montgomery) What's New' (Bob Haggard) Where Is Love' (Lionel Bart) Who Can I Turn To' (Leslie Bricusse) Wildflower (Wayne Shorter) Willow Weep For Me (Ann Ronell) Witchcraft (Cy Coleman) Yes And No (Wayne Shorter) Young Rabbits (Wayne Henderson) Your Mind Is On Vacation (Mose Allison)

LAméricain Duke Ellington (1889- 1974) a été pianiste chef dorchestre compositeur et arrangeur et a connu un grand succès. Son orchestre existe depuis des dizaines dannées et a pu survivre grâce aux énormes tubes que ses collaborateurs et lui-m?me ont écrits. Bon nombre de ces titres font aujourdhui partie du répertoire standard des jazzmen.Billy Strayhorn(1915- 1967) a rejoint lorchestre en 1939 en qualité darrangeur et de compositeur et a notamment écrit Take the A- train qui dès 1941 devient la chanson favorite de lorchestre. Il en existe dailleurs de nombreuses versions.Juan Tizol (1900- 1984 trombone à pistons) a joué aux côtés de Duke Ellington pendantpratiquement toute sa carrière et a composé des titres latin pour lorchestre. Il est le co-compositeur de Caravan et Perdido.Tout comme dans les concerts originaux de Duke Ellignton le medley commence par take the A- train suivi par toute une série de classiques extraits du répertoire du légendaire orchestre. Certains titres laissent entendre des solistes avec en point dorgue un solo de timbales sur C-Jam Blues. Ce solo peut éventuellement aussi ?tre improvisé.Quiconque travaille ce morceau se doit daccorder une grande attention aux basses et percussions qui forment la section de rythme et poussent lorchestre. Les autres sections doivent ?tre solides et créer un effet de swing cohérent. Le swing ne peut ?tre trop anguleux et peut varier dun titre à lautre. Dans In a sentimental mood par exemple la mélodie peut ?tre jouée de manière quasi rectiligne (classique) tandis que la section de rythme maintient le swing.