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Jazz” Back Into Jazz Band: 2020 WVMA Conference - Jeff Wolfe, Marshall University Professional Jazz Ensemble Literature Accessible to Emerging Ensembles Putting “Jazz” Back Into Jazz Band: 2020 WVMA Conference - Jeff Wolfe, Marshall University Professional Jazz Ensemble Literature Accessible to Emerging Ensembles Tune Comp/Arr Recording 2) The Atomic Basie Record Neal Hefti Basie (E=MC Count Basie The Kansas City Suite Benny Carter Kansas City Suite - Count Basie Enroll your band at academy.jazz.org The Essentially Ellington Series Various (5-8 free charts a year) 6 free charts a year for members Jazz Education Network (JEN) Various (for members) - jazzednet.org This Time By Basie! - Count I Left My Heart In San Francisco Cory & Cross/Arr. Quincy Jones Basie Thad Jones The Definitive Thad Jones: Live From the Walkin’ About (rescored by Mike Carubia) Village Vanguard, Vol. 1 - Mel Lewis J.O. Basie Plays Hefti Cute Neal Hefti Count Basie Count Basie One O’Clock Jump Various (1937 Version) (recreated by Jeff Hest) The Band of Distinction Down For The Count Frank Foster Count Basie Basie Land Count Me In Billy Byers Count Basie Full Nelson Miss Fine Oliver Nelson Oliver Nelson The Blues and the Abstract Truth Yearnin’ Oliver Nelson Oliver Nelson Afro/American Sketches Emancipation Blues Oliver Nelson Oliver Nelson The Uncollected Duke Ellington Rockabye River Duke Ellington and His Orchestra 1946, Vol. 2 …And His Mother Called Him Snibor Billy Strayhorn Bill Duke Ellington/Arr. Billy Such Sweet Thunder - Duke Such Sweet Thunder Strayhorn Ellington Duke Ellington and Billy Blue Pepper Far East Suite - Duke Ellington Strayhorn Big Band Arrangements of Tunes From Aebersold Vol. 54 (Vehicles for Improvisation) Tune Arranger Aebersold Vol. Watermelon Man Mike Kamuf 54-Maiden Voyage Song For My Father Mark Taylor 54-Maiden Voyage Impressions Mark Taylor 54-Maiden Voyage So What Mark Taylor 54-Maiden Voyage Maiden Voyage Mark Taylor 54-Maiden Voyage Cantaloupe Island Mike Kamuf 54-Maiden Voyage Satin Doll Mark Taylor 54-Maiden Voyage Blue Bossa Mark Taylor 54-Maiden Voyage Summertime Calvin Custer 54-Maiden Voyage Footprints John Berry 54-Maiden Voyage Autumn Leaves Peter Blair 54-Maiden Voyage Doxy Mark Taylor 54-Maiden Voyage Now’s the Time (F Blues) Allen Gray 54-Maiden Voyage Straight No Chaser (F Blues) Mark Taylor 54-Maiden Voyage Tenor Madness (Bb Blues) Mark Taylor 8-Sonny Rollins Lady Bird Mark Taylor 70-Killer Joe St. Thomas Mark Taylor 8-Sonny Rollins Sugar Mark Taylor 70-Killer Joe Girl from Ipanema Mark Taylor 70-Killer Joe.
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