Mambo

This songbook contains 9 popular mambos including Mambo Italiano Mambo No.5 and (Mucho Mambo)Sway all arranged for Piano Voice and Guitar.

The composer says: Several musical threads led to my writing this piece of music to celebrate my friend Matanya Ophee?s (AKA MO) 80th birthday - a life lived with the guitar. Jelly Roll Morton once asserted: ?In fact, if you can't manage to put tinges of Spanish in your tunes, you will never be able to get the right seasoning; I call it, for jazz.? Over the last couple of years I moved back to Jelly Roll Morton?s city: New Orleans, home of my adolescence and reacquainted myself with the tinges of Spanish in its rich musical heritage. One of these pieces was the Mardi Gras Mambo, an iconic song frequently played during Mardi Gras and, in David Newman?s reworking of the lyrics, at the New Orleans Saints football games as the Super Bowl Mambo. Uncited sources on both Wikipedia and Essortment say the word Mambo means ?conversation with the gods? in Kikongo, the language spoken by Central African slaves taken to Cuba where it became the name for a musical form and a dance style that developed originally in Cuba in the able hands of Cachao?s (Bassist Orestes Lopez) tune: Danzon Mambo. This rhythmic style became famous in the 1950?s following its use in dance bands in Mexico and through New Orleans to the United States. The infectiousness of the New Orleans re-interpretation of the Mambo?s ostinato bass line and the reaction of people who are readily moved to dance when they hear it spoke to me of dance and celebration. This led me to choose some of this piece?s characteristics and title for this piece: Mambo for MO. As we have progressed on the instrument, some of us may have encountered the four-chord descending minor chord progression known as the Andalusian cadence: i - VII - VI - V in many different genres and guises. After all, it appears in Ray Charles? Hit the Road, Jack, the verse on Good Vibrations by The Beach Boys, Walk, Don?t Run by The Ventures, Runaway by Del Shannon and in that great work arranged and embraced by the Guitar: J.S. Bach?s Chaconne from the Partita in D minor for solo violin, BWV 1004. This bass line derived from a Latin American musical style as reinterpreted in New Orleans, a chord progression that evokes the Flamenco Music of Spain, and my impressions of the sinuous lines of people dancing the Second Line in the streets of New Orleans at Mardi Gras led me to this synthesis as a tribute to a man who has contributed so much in his lifelong efforts for the guitar, its history and lore on the occasion of his birthday! Happy Birthday, Matanya! Carlos Barrientos was born on June 25, 1954 in Tela, Honduras. He began his formal music studies at the National Music Conservatory in Guatemala City, Guatemala C.A. His training with Maestro Elias Barreiro, Director of Guitar Studies at Tulane University, was supplemented with Master Classes with Manuel Barrueco, Leo Brouwer, Juan Mercadal, Michael Newman, Tommy Tedesco and Carlos Barbosa-Lima. He studied composition under the tutelage of Dr. Jerry Sieg, University of New Orleans, and Dr. Roy Johnson, Florida State University. He consulted with Michael D. Martin, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Music, Albany State University, Albany, GA in the creation of a recordings library that reflects Western Art Music and American Jazz for the students at Albany State University. The New York Premiere of the First Movement of his Second Guitar Sonata was dedicated to and performed by Classical Guitarist Maestro Carlos Barbosa-Lima in 2003 at Carnegie Hall. At the request of U.S. Senator Bob Graham one of his compositions, Si Tu Te Vas (If You Go Away), was included on a recording to promote The Everglades Trail. In 2004, at the American Church in Paris, France the World Premiere of his Romance for Flute and Guitar was performed by the award-winning Serenade Duo, flutist Michelle LaPorte and guitarist Gerry Saulter. He has performed with such legendary musicians as Herbie Mann, Donald Byrd and Debbie Reynolds, led an on stage Renaissance Trio in a University of New Orleans production of Shakespeare?s Twelfth Night, and played incidental music for their production of Bertold Brecht?s The Good Woman of Sichuan. He has performed Carulli?s Guitar Concerto in A, Leonard Bernstein?s West Side Story and Marvin Hamlish?s A Chorus Line with the Northwest Florida Symphony Orchestra and Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, FL, and with the Southern Art Music Ensemble, a Jazz/Latin Fusion Sextet, including an Honors Convocation in Atlanta for Mr. Ted Turner. He has been a guest performer with the Albany State University Jazz Ensemble at The Fletcher Henderson Jr., Macon and Atlanta Jazz Festivals, and played the banjo in the Albany State University /Albany Symphony?s co-production of George Gershwin?s Opera Porgy and Bess.

Mambo Americano a été écrit en hommage aux compositeurs de l?âge d?or du mambo. Des compositions comme celles de Pérez Prado ou comme Mambo tiré de West Side Story de Leonard Bernstein des années 1950 sont désormais établis dans notre monde de musique contemporain ? et c?est précisément cette époque qui est évoquée pour le public dans Mambo Americano !

It’s time to bring some Caribbean mambo style to your next performance with Mambo Jambo! Rhythm parts have been carefully notated to help your ensemble achieve an authentic Latin groove. You can open this one up for as many soloists as you would like. Optional added percussion includes bongos vibraslap and guiro. Plenty of teaching opportunities and the musicians will even get to shout a good Mambo Jambo or two before this one is over!

Mambo Merengue provides an introduction to the world of jazz; it's rhythms harmony and melodic shapes. The pieces demonstrate a variety of jazz styles: Latin blues bebop modal swing and modern. 'Mambo' is believed to be a Haitian Creole word literally meaning 'to talk'. Now 'mambo' is a type of dance derived from the Cuban rumba. Consequently the word combines two of the most appealing aspects of jazz; musical conversation and physical movement.

Big Band Play-Along Volume 6-These revolutionary play-along packs let you sit in with a professional big band without the pressure of playing solo. They're perfect for current players who want to practice their chops and for those former players who want to get back in the swing!Each volume includes: easy-to-read authentic big band arrangements; professional recordings of all the big band instruments including the lead part.Accessible authentic and easy-to-read big band arrangements for 10 hot Latin grooves: Água De Beber (Water to Drink); At the Mambo Inn; Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much); The Look of Love; Mambo No. 5 (A Little Bit Of...); Mas Que Nada; One Note Samba (Samba De Uma Nota So);Quiet Nights of Quiet Stars (Corcovado); Ran Kan Kan; St. ThomasFeatures a professionally recorded play-along CD.

Perez Prado's Mambo Jambo for Piano and Voice with chord symbols. Lyrics in German and English.

Put your trombone player in the spotlight with this lovely bright and carnivalesque mambo composed by Carron Schilders.

Par HOSAY JAMES L.. This light hearted fun arrangement starts out in a mellow, jazzy mambo - rock ballad and then goes into a sizzling hot, driving mambo that will give your audience, and maybe even your band, dancing in their seats. / Niveau : 2.5 / Répertoire / Concert Band ou Harmonie

La Pantera Mambo-What do you get if you combine the Pink Panther theme with a hot Latin beat? La Pantera Mambo! Vocal jazz choirs pop choirs all choirs will love to perform this sizzling salsa setting! A fabulous hook for a concert!

This light hearted fun arrangement starts out in a mellow jazzy mambo - rock ballad and then goes into a sizzling hot driving mambo that will give your audience and maybe even your band dancing in their seats.

18 hot hits, including: Amor - Bésame Mucho (Kiss Me Much) - Brazil - Cumaná - Desafinado (Off Key) - Frenesí - Love Me with All Your Heart (Cuando Caliente El Sol) - Mambo #5 (A Little Bit Of...) - Perfidia - Spanish Eyes - Tango in D - Wave - and more. Includes lyrics in Spanish and English where applicable. / Piano