Product Description
By Mike Strand, ASCAP
This is the full score, plus scores for three groups of
parts, for a full arrangement of a swing tune for piano, bass, saxophone, trumpet, trombone, and two singers.
After the cover, there are 21 pages of music: Ten pages for the full score; four pages
for the group of blowing instruments (alto saxophone, B flat trumpet, and
trombone); four pages for the piano and bass; and three pages for the two
singers.
Grouping the parts in this manner is natural and advantageous for this particular swing composition. These part groupings will help
players in a group coordinate with each other from their group score. This is an excellent compromise between
everyone working from the full score, and each player having a score with just
the players individual part.
The audio sample plays the full score.
This product solves a
problem that any composer of new jazz
music faces: Unlike the popular
standards, there arent any well-known and often-heard arrangements for a band
to emulate. As the composer with only a lead sheet,
I would have to convince your band to develop an arrangement from scratch,
starting from nothing but the lead sheet! With so many attractive standard swing tunes to perform, a busy band may hesitate to put extra effort into an unknown tune.
Problem solved!
With this full arrangement of They Came Here to Dance, a band can better see and hear the tunes full potential. It will be easier for a band
to make any modifications to suit its particular mix of musicians and to better
fit its style.
With this
arrangement, with written score, part group scores and audio sample, it will be as easy as
working from the recording and score of a popular standard.
All thats missing from this arrangement is the percussion,
because of the individuality of drummers.
The band only needs a skilled jazz drummer to join in
easily with this arrangement.
Here are the lyrics to They
Came Here to Dance:
1.
You may come here to eat and to drink.
Lots of chins wag, and wine glasses clink.
Well, thats all good, but heres what I think:
They came here to dance!
2.
We cats up front have to check our sound mix.
Then they walk in, togged to the bricks.
They have the moves to show off our licks.
They came here to dance!
Bridge Instrumental
section, followed by:
Our bands in the groove heres one reason why:
The doghouse amps are turned up high.
They get in there, and tear up the floor!
And they dont care if their feet get sore.
3.
Bustin our conks, we cats are hot,
She is a wren who rocks him a lot!
And they dont care if we light up or not.
They came here to dance!
4. Bridge again, then:
Bustin our conks, we cats are hot,
She is a wren who rocks him a lot!
And they dont care if we light up or not.
They have the learning to, they have a yearning to,
They came here to dance!
Note
Some words in these lyrics are taken from "Cab Calloway
Slang":
Light up smoke a stick (marijuana cigarette)
Doghouse - bass
Get in there -
go to work, get busy, make it hot, give it all you got
Bustin our conks breaking our necks (applying ourselves
diligently)
Wren a chick, a queen (beautiful girl)
Cat musician in swing band
Togged to the bricks dressed to kill, from head to toe
Licks hot musical phrases
In the groove perfect, down the alley
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