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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 1:36 pm    Post subject: Source of 20s Tunes Reply with quote

I've been asked to sub in a 1920s-style dance orchestra that plays fox trots, waltzes, and other forms popular back then. I've been forewarned the trumpet parts are pretty demanding with lots fast, tricky passages and pages that poorly copied and hard to read.

I’d like to some wood shedding before the gig and I don’t have access to the book.

Can anyone point me to a source of tunes like this. Being able to download free from a historical archive would be wonderful but I'm not opposed to buying some good examples.

Thanks for any help you can provide!
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:31 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

It's very difficult to prepare for the unique aspects of this music in advance. I've sat in a couple of times with the Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra in Chicago. They play a lot of this kind of music, things you've never heard of by title. It's an amazing book and the style is just enough different from more modern styling to throw you off.

What I observed especially was that there was no assumption that eighths were played in a swinging style. Instead, it would be completely written out/notated in a swinging style if that's what was supposed to be the way it was played. It's just slightly different than what we think of today as "swinging eighth notes" but it's hard to describe the difference with exactness.

Music from that era requires a very specific skill set to get it right. I think most players pick it up from simply playing it and gaining experience. It's very fun music but if you haven't played it and you sit in with players who have you might find yourself just a hairline out of sync with them. So, you have to listen very closely.
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 5:36 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Excellent advice - thanks!
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"The notes are there - find them.” Mingus

2021 Martinus Geelan Custom
2005 Bach 180-72R
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1946 Conn Victor
1998 Scodwell flugel
1986 Bach 181 cornet
1954 Conn 80A cornet
2002 Getzen bugle
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PostPosted: Mon Apr 29, 2019 9:00 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Spent the last hour listening to Paul Whiteman. If I can keep his style in my head playing the notes should be a breeze.
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"The notes are there - find them.” Mingus

2021 Martinus Geelan Custom
2005 Bach 180-72R
1965 Getzen Eterna Severinsen
1946 Conn Victor
1998 Scodwell flugel
1986 Bach 181 cornet
1954 Conn 80A cornet
2002 Getzen bugle
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