Name: KIDS' SONG by Big Band Jazz Ensemble Digital Sheet Music
Brand: Des Press
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KIDS' SONG
by Big Band Jazz Ensemble - Digital Sheet Music

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Product Details

Title KIDS' SONG

Artist Big Band

Score Type

PDF, Included with PASS

Arranger Des McNutty

Composer Des McNutty

Format Digital Sheet Music

Pages 57

Arrangement Jazz Ensemble

Publisher Des Press

Level 3

Product ID 1151759

Genre Jazz Children Broadway Musical/Show

Performance Group Jazz Ensemble

Product Description

Kids' Song is an original piece for big band, composed and arranged by Des McNutty. The saxophone section needs flute, clarinet and bass clarinet, with only one alto and one tenor sax. The solo trumpet part is quite easy, spanning one octave; f-f'. The written-out "jazz" solo is not as difficult as it looks but nevertheless a bit more challenging. An easier solo can be written or improvised to be as difficult as the player dares, or given to someone else. The level is on the easier side of intermediate. Kids' Song was written in the mid- 1990s, apparently after listening to a lot of Isaac Hayes as an antidote to the then-ubiquitous Britpop and EDM. The style is a bit commercial and unashamedly schmaltzy - as you might find in a Broadway show from the time. The harmonies are like recently-poured cornflakes; slushy but slightly crunchy in places - and there's a funky middle section, as if you've mashed in a banana with maple syrup and Tabasco on it or something. Kids' Song was conceived as part of the obscure musical about the fortunes of a banjo-playing flapper from Burnley, Fifi Braithwaite, but dropped for stylistic reasons because the show was set in the late 1920s/ early 1930s. The sentiment is "We're hungry. Why can't adults just be nice?"

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